■NPR是National Public Radio，即美国国家公共之声。节目以新闻及综述为主,是美国国内收听率最高的广播之声。
■该台节目较为公正，锐利，反映美国生活的方方面面，具有很强的思想性。
■新闻稿写作工整，用词固定和地道，书面化很强，非常值得大家认真学习。播音员发音纯正，平缓。



概述：In the Stanford Hospital,there are classes for overweight kids to lose weight through a six-month program with their families and coaches.What about the effect of the program? Would they like to go on these healthy diets?



参与方式：全文听写
Hints:
Gabriel
Cindy Zedeck
"OK, so let's take a look at your charts. So when you started the program, you were eating 90 red lights." "Yes." The chart shows Gabriel has reduced his red lights from 90 to 30 a month, and he's pretty much stuck with it. Program director Cindy Zedeck says kids gradually cut back the amount of junk food they eat, so it doesn't feel like a big change. This isn't a diet, Zedeck makes clear – a word that they never use with kids or parents. "You're really signing up for six months of learning how to improve your eating and exercise habits for your lifetime. It's not a diet that you're on and then you're off at the end of the six months. This will give you the tools to continue to make these changes for your lifetime." Those changes also include exercise. Kids set goals around playing or doing sports for an hour each day. Often the hardest part for parents, Zedeck says, is figuring out how to talk to their kids about weight. "A lot of parents call and say that their child has very high self-esteem, feels very confident, is very active but they're overweight. So they don't want to bring up their weight because they don't want to make them feel badly about it if it's not a current concern for them."