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Topic: Eat anything and lose weight!
Source: Global Voice August 2006 Page70 - Page73
Meet Steven Hawks. The health science professor at Brigham young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, has a rather unorthodox approach to dieting. When he’s at the supermarket and feels a hankering for some Hershey’s Kisses (chocolate) or “double-stuffed” Oreos (cookies), he doesn’t head for the health junk Oreos, he doesn’t head for the health food aisle. Instead, he makes a beeline for the junk food section and loads up... And, believe it or not, about half a decade ago he actually lost 50 pounds by eating stuff like that. What’s more, he’s managed to keep the weight off – plus, he’s still eating pretty much all the same kinds of junk food.
The “see it ‘n’ eat it” approach to dieting makes total sense to the middle-aged professor, since it takes the taboo element out of eating. According to Hawks, it’s when people associate desire with chocolate cake and ice cream sundaes that going overboard occurs. When he has large stockpiles of calorie-laden snacks lying around his home and office, it actually makes the food a lot less tempting. Consequently, when he wants a Dove bar, it’s right there within arm’s reach, and he simply unwraps one of the things, eats it, and that’s that. It’s his firm belief that if most Americans followed his lead, they’d feel better about themselves while removing the urge to gorge.
“Intuitive eating “is the name that Hawks has given to his no-diet plan, and he points to coworkers when asked if it works for others. Said Steven Peck, assistant professor at BYU, “I was pretty skeptical of the idea you could eat anything you wanted. It struck me as odd.” But 12 months after following Hawks’ “intuitive eating” guidelines, he’s 35 pounds less heavy than at the outset. “There are times when I overeat. I did at Thanksgiving,” Peck revealed in an interview with Associated Press. “That’s one thing about Steve’s ideas, they’re sort of forgiving. On other diets if you slip up, you feel you’ve blown it and it takes a couple weeks to get back into it.”
Indeed. Unlike most diets, intuitive eating doesn’t make you go on a guilt-trip if you eat something that’s decadently sweet. “one of the advantages of intuitive eating is you’re always eating things that are most appealing to you,” Hawks said, “Whenever you feel the physical urge to eat something, accept it and eat it. The cravings actually tend to subside.”
Like with most anything that sounds too good to be true, there’s got to be a catch with intuitive eating, right? Well, if you call eating only when you’re hungry, and stopping when you’re full a “catch,” then the answer is yes. It means that if you see your fellow students or business colleagues pigging out at the hot-food bar, you don’t need to follow suit. You can eat potentially fat-laden food –like fried chicken and mashed potatoes and gravy, for instance – but stop when your hunger’s been satiated. In short, intuitive eating allows for eating whatever you want, whenever you feel hungry. But once the hunger stops, so does the eating.
For Hawks it all started in 1989 when he was teaching at North Carolina State University and got a job offer form BYU. It meant an opportunity to return to his native Utah, but he didn’t know how he could accept the job since it entailed teaching about nutrition and he was overweight at 210 pounds. Before accepting, he lost weight, but eventually put the pounds back on once the pressure of a new job built. Eventually, he instituted an eat-only hungry approach, and that formed the basis of his intuitive eating plan. The slimmed-down Hawks is living proof that it works, and interested individuals can read more on the subject by logging on to http://www.intuitiveeating.com.
Vocabulary:
1. Unorthodox 非正統 2. Hankering 響往; 渴望 3. approach 方法
4. Taboo 禁忌 5. Stockpile 儲備物資 6. calorie-laden 熱量高的
7. Tempting 吸引人的 8. Gorge 暴食; 大吃 9. intuitive 直覺的
10. Craving 渴望 11. Subside 退落; 消退 12. Catch 圈套
13. Satiated 使飽足的
Questions:
1. Does intuitive eating have any pitfalls?
2. What’s the most common reason for people becoming overweight in your society?
3. Why most people want to keep slim?
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