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Jody Hubbard is a diet and nutrition expert who travels around the state to speak in middle and high schools. She primarily speaks to students in health classes, but sometimes the school will arrange for her to speak to several different groups of girls. Her biggest concern is the emphasis American culture places on thinness and the negative way that affects girls today. Jody has a Ph.D. in nutrition, but, more important, she has personal experience. Her mother taught her to diet when she was only 8 years old. Jody has created several different presentations, which she gives to different types of audiences and she tries to establish an emotional connection with the students so that they will feel comfortable asking questions or talking to her privately. She shows them pictures and images from popular culture of beautiful women and explains how computers are used to make the women look even more thin and "beautiful" than they are in real life. She describes how the definition of beauty has changed over the years and even from culture to culture. She then talks about health issues and the physical damage that can occur as a result of dieting. Finally, she addresses self-respect and the notion that a person's sense of beauty must include more than how much a person weighs. Sometimes Jody feels that she succeeds in persuading some students to stop dieting; other times she feels that she fails.
优秀词组 1. more important 更加重要 2. personal experience 个人经验 3. establish an connection with 与…建立联系 4. self-respect 自重，自律 5. succeed in 成功;在…方面成功
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乔迪·哈伯德是一位饮食营养家，她经常到本州各所初高中学校去做演讲。最开始她是在健康课上给学生们讲，但是有时候学校会安排她给几类特殊的女学生讲。她最大的担忧是美国社会对瘦的重视以及这对现在女学生带来的负面影响。乔迪获得了营养学博士学位，但更重要的是她的个人经验。她八岁时母亲就开始让她节食。乔迪制作了好多种不同的演讲稿，分发给不同类型的观众，她努力和学生们建立起情感共鸣，这样她们就可以毫无顾忌地问她问题，和她私下进行交流了。她给学生们看时下流行女性的照片，并向她们解释人们是如何使用电脑处理这些照片使她们看上去比实际生活中更美。她向人们解释美的定义随着时间推移发生了怎样的变化，甚至各个国家的人对美的看法都不同。她还说到了节食会导致的健康问题和身体损伤。最后，她说到了自我尊重，并强调一个人的美感远不止由其体重决定。乔迪有时候感觉自己在说服别人停止节食方面很成功，但是有时候她也会有失败感。
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