Los Angeles ________Kathleen Mulcahy has been fighting with her _________for 55 years. My parents had a baby, a son and he died at _________and so that was sort of I was 7 and I think that was the time I started ________weight. My mother died when I was 12 very suddenly and then my weight just__________, she is not alone. A growing number of people are overweight or _________ particularly in areas worldwide including developing countries. Fast foods, __________corporations, soft drink companies going into these developing countries, are having a very huge influence on the overweight and obesity _________because they’re adding calories and ___________foods, salt and sugar into the diet that these people have not normally been eating. People’s lifestyles are also changing in developing countries. As people ize and make more money and have more __________lives, they are also putting on weight and following the pattern of the United States. __________Dena Solomon says there is also another reason why people are gaining weight globally. You know people are moving away from their family of origin. They don’t have a support system that’s going to help them also manage and have relationships as__________ for dealing with stress so people are turning to food. While fad diet may help with quick weight loss, keeping off the weight is more of a challenge. At _________at weight loss, the studies __________show that _________diets are good long-term, you are motivated. Instead of focusing on what you eat, Solomon helps people maintain weight loss by working with the mind to change a person’s eating behavior. She helps her _______like Mulkahy be more self-aware by having them write down everything they eat before they eat. That awareness, that sense of _________becomes more powerful than the immediate _________of food but you have to learn it, it has to become a habit. It’s worked from Mulkahy who has_________ her current weight for almost three years. Mulkahy You get such a sense of accomplishment and a sense of power and__________ that you can apply it to everywhere. Maintaining a healthy weight not only helps with a positive self-image , but it will also fend off health problems such as heart disease, diabetes and even some forms of cancer. Unit 1 相关视频2.mp4