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ジョディー・スタニスロー :砂糖はご褒美ではない


QUESTIONS


Part 1 (Comprehension Questions):

  1. What kind of doctor is the speaker?
  2. What is inside the pancreas, according to the speaker?
  3. Based on her speech, what is the responsibility of beta cells and insulin?
  4. What is scary about eating cake, ice cream, even highly-refined carbohydrate foods, like yogurt and granola, cereal, bread, pasta, alcohol- even in moderation?
  5. What was she diagnosed with when she was just seven years old?
  6. According to her speech, how many companies own the entire world’s food brands?
  7. If we keep consuming sugar and keep doing this over a lifetime, what kind of diseases can we possibly acquire as stated by the speaker?
  8. What did the speaker recommend her patient Pam to eat for breakfast before running all those expensive tests?
  9. According to the World Health Organization, how many people today have type 2 diabetes as claimed by the speaker?
  10. When working with her patients, what does she teach them?


Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):


1.Are you afraid of diabetes?

2. Do you know someone suffering from diabetes?

3. What is your opinion to the lifestyle of people who are obese?

4. Do you think you can take eating only protein for breakfast?

5. Do you think it is really wrong to eat “sugar” as a treat?

6. Do you regularly check your blood sugar level?

7. Do you have a sweet tooth?

8. Do you love drinking soda or fruity drinks?

9. How often do you use sugar in a day?

10. What would the world be like without sugar?