Shadowing Practice: The Fat Problem - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Fat is your most dangerous organ.
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Yes, organ.
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While it's often falsely described as a mere expression of laziness or gluttony, fat is essential for health,
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controlling and guiding crucial processes in your body.
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But if you have too much fat, it starts to disrupt your metabolism, becoming one of the most deadly things that can happen to your body.
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victory.
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There are all sorts of ideas about the cause of the obesity epidemic, but it really comes down to one thing.
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For millions of years, humans had to expend a lot of effort to get food and often faced hunger.
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Our bodies evolved to hold on to every bit of energy.
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And then suddenly, we had an overabundance of food we didn't need to move much for.
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We made food hyperpalatable and ultra -processed with loads of unhealthy fats, salt and sugar.
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Our brains this so our food is extremely hard to resist to the point of being addictive.
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It's also extremely convenient, cheap and you get a lot of energy per volume so it's not very satiating.
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This leads to most of us regularly overeating without realizing it and food is aggressively marketed especially to children.
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Fat comes with a lot of shame and blame which is pretty unfair in a world full of things
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They're also often unfairly villainized, but it's crucially important for your health, and if you don't have enough, you can suffer problems from infertility to a weak immune system,
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fatigue, mental health issues, and osteoporosis.
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Still, none of this changes how bad excess fat is for us.
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So, how does our fat organ become so destructive, and can we help ourselves?
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What is fat?
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If you consume more energy than you burn, you store it as triglycerides, an organic battery bustling with energy,
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collected in a large drop of fat inside a white fat cell.
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Gain weight and white fat cells expand with fat, lose weight and they shrink.
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Only in the last few decades have we learned fat's most important job.
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liver, muscles, digestive tract and immune system, making them work correctly together.
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Unfortunately, if you become overweight and obese, your fat organ and the many hormones it releases turn insane.
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In adults, fat comes in two types of white fat depots.
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Most of it is subcutaneous fat, the gooey soft stuff under your skin that insulates against the cold and serves as energy storage.
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The other one is of your sensitive insides.
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But it also happens to be more dangerous.
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These fat cells are super sensitive to stress hormones like cortisol or adrenaline.
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When they pick up a surge of stress, they release fatty acids directly into your blood and are picked up by your liver as a rapid source of energy.
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On top of that, your visceral fat is very metabolically active, in a constant hormonal dialogue with the rest of your body.
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This is also why the health of two people with the same weight and amount of fat can be totally different.
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If you're pear -shaped and your fat is mostly in your hips or limbs, you're much less at risk than someone apple -shaped with a lot of fat in their torso.
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Bite by bite.
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As you gain unhealthy weight, excess visceral fat triggers a cascade of negative changes all at once.
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Fat cells bloat up to their limit until they outgrow their blood supply and get starved of oxygen.
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They become critically stressed or even die.
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This is bad.
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If you're overweight or obese, your fat is basically a wounded organ leaking stress and poison into your system.
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Especially your visceral fat, even more triggered by the extra stress hormones, makes your blood more fatty.
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This over feeds your organs like your liver or your muscles, who can't keep up anymore and begin to take damage.
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The cellular stress and dead fat cells are emergency signals that cool your immune system to a fight.
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Armies of macrophages invade your fat tissue, creating clusters trying to eliminate the cause of the stress, but can't.
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So they stay and call for more help.
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In a lean person's fat immune cells make up about 5 % of cells.
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In an obese person's fat up to 40 %
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Active immune cells cause inflammation bloating up your tissue
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and releasing even more alarm signals Which is good for a short amount of time when you're sick,
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but if it becomes chronic it's like your entire body is under friendly fire The inflammation molecules
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and fatty acids rip countless tiny wounds into the insides of your blood vessels that desperately try to close them.
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This narrows your blood vessels and reduces the flow of oxygen -rich blood.
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Inflammation also causes your blood pressure to rise, so your heart has to work harder, and your risk of heart attacks or strokes increases massively.
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To make things worse, your fat organs hormone production gets out of whack.
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Like leptin, the satiety hormone.
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With a healthy amount of fat, leptin tells your brain when you have enough energy storage, can eat less and spend more energy.
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But if you have too much fat, instead of becoming less hungry, your brain becomes resistant against the constant flood of leptin.
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This breaks your internal food thermostat, which is one of the reasons why many people who are overweight feel intense hunger.
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Their fat is screaming at their brain that they have enough, but the brain is not hearing the message anymore.
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Your sex hormones also get out of whack, testosterone is lowered, while estrogen is overproduced.
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In women, this increases the risk of breast cancer significantly.
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Most people are not aware how much the risk of cancer rises with excess fat,
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In the US, almost 10 % of all cancers are directly related to being overweight or obese.
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And to top this off, obese cancer patients have much worse outcomes, succumbing to the disease more often and sooner.
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None of this is great, but even worse is what happens to one of your most important hormones: insulin.
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When the hormone world explodes.
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Insulin is a hormone produced by your pancreas
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that tells your cells to open their tiny mouths and eat up glucose from your blood.
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It's your body's way of screaming "dinner time !" Disastrously bombarded by the stress from your excess fat, cells all over your body become insulin resistant,
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worse at eating glucose and taking up energy.
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Your body tries to compensate by pumping out more insulin, screaming louder.
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This can go on silently for many years
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and progress to pre -diabetes with no or only subtle symptoms like fatigue or hunger.
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But as the damage accumulates, eventually your body just can't keep up anymore.
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The cells responsible for insulin production are so overworked that they stop functioning properly and eventually give in.
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Your insulin crashes drastically and your body can't compensate.
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While the blood is now saturated with glucose, yet you are starving and feel exhausted and unwell.
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Imagine this as trillions of tiny sharp shards floating through you, damaging your blood vessels, nerves and organs, causing slow but constant damage everywhere.
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body is so chronically inflamed that almost all organ systems are affected.
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The kidneys are overwhelmed, making you pee way more.
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Your vision gets blurry, your immune system is severely weakened, wounds heal slower, dying nerves lead to numbness and pain.
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You may experience shortness of breath, chest discomfort, erectile dysfunction and high blood pressure, problems with your memory, focus, mood and even depression.
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Your risk through the roof.
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On average, type 2 diabetes shaves 10 years off your life and reduces your healthspan massively, arguably as much as smoking.
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If current obesity trends continue, up to 1 in 3 Americans will have diabetes by 2050.
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There is no nice way to put this, excessive fat strains nearly every organ system in your body,
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ages you much quicker and often leads to multi -system damage and Pathetics first and health second.
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Which is kind of baffling considering that most
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if not all of the toxic effects of your excess fat basically go away as soon as you lose it
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and start eating a healthy -ish diet.
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Once your fat cells contract again, they stop being stressed and your immune system calms down.
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The excess blood fat and sugar drops to normal levels and your body recovers.
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Even if you already have full -blown diabetes type 2, by losing weight you can reverse many improve your health and lifespan.
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So if you've been waiting for a push to get started, now is the time.
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אוצר מילים והערות הגייה לשיעור הזה
שיעור הדיבור הזה ברמה C1 מבוסס על הסרטון “The Fat Problem”. המילים שחוזרות הכי הרבה: fat, cell, blood, organ, hormone. בסרטון הזה יש 121 משפטים ו-1718 מילים לתרגול Shadowing. הדיבור נמשך 11:18. הדובר מדבר בקצב טבעי של כ-152 מילים בדקה, קרוב לשיחה יומיומית. רק 80% מהמילים נמצאות בין 3,000 המילים הנפוצות ביותר באנגלית, כך שאוצר המילים מאתגר.
אוצר מילים מרכזי בסרטון הזה
15 המילים המתקדמות ביותר בסרטון, עם ההגייה והמשמעות שלהן:
| מילה | הגייה | משמעות |
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| hormone שם עצם | /ˈhoɹmoʊn/ | הורמון |
| insulin שם עצם | /ˈɪnsəlɪn/ | אינסולין |
| overweight שם תואר | /ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/ | בעל משקל עודף, שמן |
| inflammation שם עצם | /ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən/ | דַּלֶּקֶת |
| glucose שם עצם | /ˈɡluː.kəʊz/ | גלוקוז |
| compensate פועל | /ˈkɑm.pənˌseɪt/ | תִּגְמֵל |
| obesity שם עצם | /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/ | שׁוֹמֶן, השמנת יתר חולנית |
| accumulate פועל | /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/ | צָבַר, אָגַר |
| blurry שם תואר | /ˈblɜːɹi/ | מטושטש |
| estrogen שם עצם | /ˈɛstɹəd͡ʒən/ | אסטרוגן |
| insulate פועל | /ˈɪnsʊleɪt/ | בידד, בִּדֵּד |
| laziness שם עצם | /ˈleɪ.zi.nəs/ | עצלות |
| nutritious שם תואר | /nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/ | מֵזִין |
| weaken פועל | /ˈwikən/ | החליש |
| starve פועל | /stɑɹv/ | גָּוַע |
Phrasal verbs שתשמעו
| מילה | משמעות |
|---|---|
| pick up פועל | הרים, אסף |
| calm down פועל | נרגע |
| figure out פועל | הֵבִין, מצא תשובה |
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | is aggressively marketed · are picked · is lowered |
| משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דבר | blame which is · signals Which is · thermostat, which is |
הגייה ששווה לשים לב אליה
הדובר משתמש ב-14 קיצורים וצורות מקוצרות, כמו can't, you're, didn't. אמרו אותם בצורה הקצרה, כפי שאתם שומעים אותם.
- הצלילים של “th”: unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, healthspan /ˈhɛlθˌspæn/
- הצלילים של “sh” ו-“zh”: inflammation /ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən/, crucially /ˈkɹuːʃəli/, nutritious /nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/, dysfunction /dɪsˈfʌŋk.ʃən/, subscription /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/
- מילים ארוכות — שימו לב להטעמה: inflammation /ɪnfləˈmeɪ̯ʃən/, obesity /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/, accumulate /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/, adrenaline /əˈdɹɛnəlɪn/, testosterone /tɛˈstɑ.stəˌɹoʊn/
צלילים שדוברי עברית מתקשים בהם:
- /w/ — שפתיים מעוגלות, לא /v/: overweight /ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, whack /ˈwæk/, weaken /ˈwikən/, swap /ˈswɑp/
- /æ/ — פתוח יותר מה-“אֶ” העברית, לא כמו “a” ב-“cup”: whack /ˈwæk/, massively /ˈmæs.ɪv.li/, baffle /ˈbæf(ə)l/, cascade /kæsˈkeɪd/, healthspan /ˈhɛlθˌspæn/
- /r/ — הלשון לא נוגעת בשום מקום, לא ה-“ר” הגרונית: hormone /ˈhoɹmoʊn/, visceral /ˈvɪsəɹəl/, resistant /ɹəˈzɪstənt/, blurry /ˈblɜːɹi/, bombard /ˌbɑmˈbɑɹd/
איך לתרגל עם הסרטון הזה
- הקשיבו לכל הסרטון פעם אחת בלי לדבר, ורשמו את המילים שאתם לא מכירים.
- התחילו במהירות 0.75×, תרגלו Shadowing משפט אחר משפט, וחזרו למהירות רגילה כשזה מרגיש קל.
- הקליטו את עצמכם והשוו למקור, תוך תשומת לב למילים כמו hormone, insulin, overweight.
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