■NPR是National Public Radio，即美國國家公共之聲。節(jié)目以新聞及綜述為主,是美國國內(nèi)收聽率最高的廣播之聲。
■該臺節(jié)目較為公正，銳利，反映美國生活的方方面面，具有很強的思想性。
■新聞稿寫作工整，用詞固定和地道，書面化很強，非常值得大家認真學習。播音員發(fā)音純正，平緩。



概述：In the Stanford Hospital,there are classes for overweight kids to lose weight through a six-month program with their families and coaches.What about the effect of the program? Would they like to go on these healthy diets?



參與方式：全文聽寫
Hints:
Gabriel
Cindy Zedeck
"OK, so let's take a look at your charts. So when you started the program, you were eating 90 red lights." "Yes." The chart shows Gabriel has reduced his red lights from 90 to 30 a month, and he's pretty much stuck with it. Program director Cindy Zedeck says kids gradually cut back the amount of junk food they eat, so it doesn't feel like a big change. This isn't a diet, Zedeck makes clear – a word that they never use with kids or parents. "You're really signing up for six months of learning how to improve your eating and exercise habits for your lifetime. It's not a diet that you're on and then you're off at the end of the six months. This will give you the tools to continue to make these changes for your lifetime." Those changes also include exercise. Kids set goals around playing or doing sports for an hour each day. Often the hardest part for parents, Zedeck says, is figuring out how to talk to their kids about weight. "A lot of parents call and say that their child has very high self-esteem, feels very confident, is very active but they're overweight. So they don't want to bring up their weight because they don't want to make them feel badly about it if it's not a current concern for them."