VOA慢速英语:No Need to Go to Extremes to Lose Weight

短语讲解：

1. Exercise is important if you want to get in good shape. But experts say exercise alone is not enough if your goal is to lose weight.

in good shape完整无损,处于良好状态,健康情况良好
例句：The old actor is still in good shape.
那老演员身体还很健康。
lose weight减轻体重，减肥
例句：She runs everyday in order to lose weight.
她每天都跑步是为了减肥。

2. Summer is a time when people of all ages feel like getting their swimwear and going to the nearest swimming pool or seashore.

feel like想要…
例句：I feel like celebrating tonight.
我今晚想庆祝一下。
swimming pool游泳池

3. In the weight loss industry, there is never a lack of ideas about how to lose weight.

a lack of缺乏
例句：Water is a lack of this region.
这个地区缺水。

4. Many experts agree on one thing: that to lose weight, you must use or burn off more calories than you take in.

agree on对某事〔物〕有同样看法, 商定〔同意〕某事, 商定做某事
例句：We agree on the question.
我们在这个问题上意见一致。
burn off消除，消耗
例句：Running is an excellent way to burn off excess energy.
跑步是消耗多余能量的极好方法。
take in吸收
例句：They both take in and expel matter. 
他们既吸取物质也排放物质。 

5. America’s National Institutes of Health has suggested that women limit calories to no less than one thousand two hundred calories a day without medical supervision.

no less than不少于, 多达
例句：There were no less than fifty wounded.
受伤者多达50人。

6. He found that carbohydrates were not to blame for making people fat.

be to blame for对…应负责任
例句：Nobody is to blame for that.
那件事谁都不怪。

7. The plan advises people to avoid all meat and meat products, and to stay away from oils, nuts and seeds.

stay away from远离, 与…保持距离
例句：The doctor advised him to stay away from fattening foods.
医生劝告他不宜吃脂肪多的食物。

8. This amount is slowly increased to between forty and one hundred grams of carbohydrates a day to keep the weight off.

keep off (使)不接近; 挡住; 禁食
例句：He told the boys playing football to keep off the grass.
他告诉那些踢足球的孩子们不要践踏草坪。

9. These included a low-fat diet, a low-carb diet and a Mediterranean diet, which is made up of fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, olive oil and nuts.

be made up of由…组成
例句：New England is made up of six states.
新英格兰包括6个州。

10. The researchers concluded that the most important thing for any diet is that people stick with it.

stick with继续做，坚持
例句：Fred stuck with his homework until it was done.
弗雷德继续做他的作业, 直到做完为止。

11. People who have had this operation are forced to eat smaller amounts of food because their top stomach fills up much faster.

fill up (使)充满
例句：His office began to fill up with people.
他的办公室里挤满了人。