VOA常速英语:US Doctor Prescribes Food as Medicine

trick into诱骗…使之采取…
例句：I was tricked into giving the old man some money.
我被骗了, 给了那老头儿一些钱。

2. “The regular physician wasn’t really spending much time with me, so I wanted to get away from my regular physician and find somebody who was more attuned to a combination of western medicine and alternative medicine," Sampson says, "and my acupuncturist recommended Dr. Miller.”

get away离开, 脱身
例句：How can we get away from poverty?
我们怎样才能摆脱贫困呢?

3. Sampson says it's done both. “My regular doctor had been focusing on making sure that I take my medication, and I think that Dr. Miller’s approach of combining medicine and lifestyle is really what turned things around for me.”

focus on对(某事或做某事)予以注意
例句：Many firms are focusing on increasing their markets overseas.
许多商行都专注于扩大国外市场。
turn around (使)好转
例句：They turned the situation around for the better.
他们扭转了局面。

4. “I got into my private practice and suddenly realized that I really did not have the proper training to take care of the most salient issues that I was seeing every day," Miller says, "which were issues related to heart disease and diabetes and cancer, all of which in some way could be traced back to nutrition and lifestyle issues.”

take care of照顾
例句：Please take care of the baby for me for a while, will you?
请替我照顾一下这孩子,好吗?
trace back to追溯到…
例句：The rumor has been traced back to a bad man.
那谣言经追查是个坏人造的。

5. Motivated by a desire to offer her patients more holistic medical treatment, Miller set out on a three-year journey around the globe to study the traditional diets of her patients’ ancestors - time-tested food combinations which, in many cases, had demonstrable health benefits.

set out着手, 开始
例句：The government has set out to make many needed reforms.
政府开始进行许多必要的改革。

6. She also chronicled her journey in a book called "The Jungle Effect," which serves as both a nutrition cookbook and a personal travelogue.

serve as充当, 担任
例句：We found that birch bark could serve as paper.
我们发现桦树皮可以作纸用。

7. But while Miller uses food for the prevention and treatment of modern illnesses, she believes that drugs can still play an important role in her patients’ lives.

play a role in在……扮演一个角色，在某方面起作用
例句：The headmaster plays an important role in the good running of a school.
办好一所学校, 校长起重要作用。

8. So, for example, there are studies showing that nutrition, in particular within Japan, has a lot to do with the lower rates of breast cancer amongst the elderly female population, and that nutrition, in particular in western South Africa, has a lot to do with the low rates of colon cancer amongst the rural, traditional African populations.

in particular尤其, 特别
例句：She likes fruit and tomatoes in particular.
她喜欢水果, 尤其是西红柿。
do with与…有关
例句：I'm interested in anything to do with music.
凡与音乐有关的事我都感兴趣。

9. He believes everyone could benefit from her holistic, integrated approach, in which food is often the best medicine.

benefit from通过…获益
例句：He thought he would benefit from going to school.
他认为上学对他有好处。