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Too much glucose.
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coming to the cell, The cell wall develops insulin resistance.
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You've heard of insulin resistance?
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It's as if the cell says, "I'm sick of the side of you." And so the glucose stays in the cell.
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In the blood, sorry.
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In the blood.
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can't get out of the blood and into the cell because of insulin resistance.
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AND SO THE BRAIN SEES There's still too much glucose in the blood, so it starts screaming at the pancreas, "More insulin!
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More insulin !" And so the pancreas is releasing more insulin, more insulin.
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The problem isn't that we need more insulin, the problem is we've got insulin resistance.
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And what's the body going to do now with all this glucose in the blood?
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It'll just spill out in the urine.
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Did you know that diabetes mellitus means sweet urine?
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The glucose can't get into the cell so it's spilled out in the urine.
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because they noticed that the ants were feeding on urine.
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So they tested the urine.
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This is back in the early 1800s.
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when they first diagnosed diabetes.
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Diabetes was not around until sugar was refined.
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And they noticed that this problem didn't happen in the little villages with the poor people, because they couldn't afford sugar.
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It was only the wealthy ones that could afford the sugar, and it was the wealthy clients were getting the diabetes.
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There's no doubt about it.
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This refined sugar has played a huge role in diabetes.
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Mm -hmm.
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Thank you.
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There's a book called Sugar Blues.
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It's a fascinating book by William Dufty and he gives the history of sugar.
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But something else has happened.
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Something else has happened that has caused this explosion in diabetes.
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And it's something to do with the grain that is in the majority of cereals, the majority of breads.
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all the cakes, biscuits, donuts, cookies, in fact we've got a lot of ticks there, what majority of pizzas are made out of,
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what the majority of pastas are made of, It's wheat.
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So what's the problem with wheat?
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One lady said to me, "But Barbara, God made wheat good." I said, "He did." "And Jesus is called the bread of life." I said,
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"He is." But the bread that Jesus referred to is not the bread we have today.
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It used to be called the staff of life.
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I'd like to suggest, as you will see, it's almost the staff of DEV today.
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Except for Tristan's bread, of course.
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Thank you. So why?
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Well, back in the 1950s, Wheat was put through intensive crossbreeding.
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They wanted to create a plant with a high yield of grain.
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To help with the starvation crisis in Africa, Mexico, India, And they put this through intensive crossbreeding.
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Now at first, because when I was a little girl, the wheat used to grow that high.
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And at first, the stalk would break under the weight of the heavy load of grain.
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So back to the drawing board.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “The Truth About Sugar and Wheat”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: insulin, diabetes, sugar, cell, glucose. Questo video contiene 45 frasi e 498 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:39. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 136 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 81% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
insulin sostantivo/ˈɪnsəlɪn/insulina
diabetes sostantivo/ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/diabete
glucose sostantivo/ˈɡluː.kəʊz/glucosio
urine sostantivo/ˈjʊɹɪn/orina, urina
wheat sostantivo/ˈwiːt/frumento, grano
grain sostantivo/ɡɹeɪn/seme
pancreas sostantivo/ˈpæŋ.kɹi.əs/pancreas
refine verbo/ɹɪˈfaɪn/raffinare, decontaminare
spill verbo/spɪl/rovesciare, versare
intensive aggettivo/ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/intensivo
biscuit sostantivo/ˈbɪs.kɪt/biscotto, biscottino
diagnose verbo/ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/diagnosticare
starvation sostantivo/stɑɹˈveɪʃən/fame
cereal sostantivo/ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/cereale
tick sostantivo/tɪk/zecca

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fawas refined · are made · is called
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessoYou've heard · has played · has happened

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 11 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come can't, we've, couldn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: diabetes /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/, glucose /ˈɡluː.kəʊz/, wheat /ˈwiːt/, crossbreed /ˈkɹɑːsˌbɹiːd/, pancreas /ˈpæŋ.kɹi.əs/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: pancreas /ˈpæŋ.kɹi.əs/, fascinate /ˈfæsɪneɪt/, ant /ænt/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come insulin, diabetes, glucose.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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