英语每日一听 | 每天少于5分钟

According to the National Center for Health Statistics of the United States, roughly 37 percent of US adults consume fast food on a daily basis.
根据美国国家卫生统计中心的数据，美国约有37％的成年人每天食用快餐。

The center found a significant rise in the number of severe obesity cases in very young children aged 2 to 5.
该中心发现，在2至5岁的幼儿中，严重肥胖的病例数显著增加。

Thank you so much for having us here in your home.
非常感谢您在这里招待我们。

Zobaida Falah on Ohio-based Muslim entrepreneur launched her snack bar company called Cure in June 2016,
俄亥俄州的穆斯林企业家佐贝达·法拉于2016年6月推出了她的零食棒公司Cure，

in an effort to end unhealthy food habits and raise awareness about proper nutrition and its benefits.
旨在终结不健康的饮食习惯，并提高人们对合理营养及其益处的认识。

To fight obesity and junk food habits, Falah created a line of organic healthy bars for all.
为了对抗肥胖和垃圾食品习惯，法拉为大众打造了一系列有机健康能量棒。

The idea came to her when she was teaching math and English to kids.
这个想法是在她教孩子们数学和英语时产生的。

I would watch my students to come into the classroom, eating chips and soda, refined sugars, bad carbs.
我看着我的学生们走进教室，嘴里吃着薯片、喝着汽水，这些食物含有精制糖和劣质碳水化合物。

And anytime I asked them why do you guys eat so poorly, a very common response was healthy food just doesn't taste good.
每当我问他们为什么吃这些垃圾食品时，最常见的回答就是健康食物不好吃。

With taste in her mind, Paula started experimenting on a unique recipe inspired by her grandmother.
想到了口味的重要性，法拉开始尝试制作一款独特的食谱，灵感来自她的祖母。

Ingredients include a mixture of nuts, flavorful seeds, honey and black seeds.
配料包括坚果混合物、风味种子、蜂蜜和黑籽。

It took off, but to this day, she still runs her business from home, meeting roughly four to six thousand orders a month.
这颇受欢迎，但直到今天，她仍然在家经营生意，每月约有四千到六千份订单。

Falah doesn't just want to change people's health but also tackle hunger as she donates a snack bar to the homeless for each one sold.
法拉不仅想改变人们的健康状况，还想解决饥饿问题，她每卖出一份零食棒，就会向无家可归者捐赠一份。

We have a social movement and mission behind the company, which means that when we first launched we would donate a bar for every bar that we sold, when we would donate it to people experiencing homelessness.
我们公司背负社会运动和使命，也就是说，我们刚推出产品时，每售出一份就会向无家可归者捐赠一份。

And as the company has grown and we've expanded and added new product lines to our brand, now we actually donate a percentage of all of our profits towards alleviating world hunger.
随着公司发展壮大，我们拓展了业务范围并为品牌新增了多条产品线，如今我们会将一定比例的利润捐赠出去 ，用于缓解全球饥饿问题 。

Falah says her company has helped more than 200,000 poor people in the U.S. and abroad, including refugees in Syria, Morocco, Palestine, and Gambia.
法拉说，她的公司已经帮助了美国及海外20多万贫困人口，其中包括叙利亚、摩洛哥、巴勒斯坦和冈比亚的难民。

It is a nonprofit dedicated to encouraging reuse in our community, providing affordable materials to artists and teachers and all creative minds in the area.
这是一个非营利组织，致力于在社区中鼓励废物再利用，为艺术家、教师和该地区所有有创造力的人提供价格低廉的材料。

I learned about creative reuse centers over a decade ago, and they really sparked something in me,
我在十多年前就了解了创造性再利用中心，它们真的激发了我的灵感，

because I'd always been a creative reuse artist, but I didn't know there was a name for it really and there was a community for it.
因为我一直是一个创造性再利用艺术家，但我不知道这种行为有名字，也不知道还有一个专门的社区。

When I was a lot younger, one of the first inspirations I had was someone was throwing away this baking tin.
小时候，我的一次灵感来源于这个别人扔掉的烘焙罐头。

And I was like, don't throw that away, I could do something with that.
我想，别扔掉，我可以用它做点什么。

I didn't know what, but we drilled a hole in the middle and turned it into a clock.
我也不知道能做什么，但我们在中间钻了个洞，把它变成了一个钟。

I called it my cupcake clock. I like to do a lot of CD mosaics.
我把它叫做纸杯蛋糕钟。我喜欢用CD打造马赛克。

I did a series of all the local colleges that people seem to really like, and it's on an old like pantry door that got discarded.
我用它们做了一系列当地大学的标识，大家似乎都很喜欢，这些作品被画在一扇废弃的老旧食品储藏室门上。

And I also make tiny little earrings out of paper like maps, music paper, old books, things like that.
我还用地图、乐谱用纸、旧书之类的做小耳环。

We are just outside of Leesburg, Virginia, which is kind of the keystone of Loudoun County.
我们就在弗吉尼亚州的利斯堡郊外，那里是劳顿县的重点位置。

And it is a wonderful community that embraces arts and small businesses.
这是一个很棒的社区，它接纳艺术和小型企业。

Donations come in very willingly, all kinds of things, fabrics, sewing notions, paper, office supplies, lots of creative things that kids like to use like pompoms and buttons and pipe cleaners.
捐赠物品纷至沓来，种类繁多，有布料、缝纫用品、纸张、办公用品，还有很多孩子们喜欢用的创意物品，比如绒球、纽扣和管道清洁剂。

All kinds of materials that might otherwise go to the waste, we take in and we try to find a new home for them.
我们回收了那些别人会扔掉的材料，并试图为它们找到新的用处。

Our center attracts a wide range of people, ages and coming for all types of reasons.
我们中心吸引了形形色色的人，年龄各异，来访目的各不相同。

Alright Sonya, so what have you made today? I made a house like with flowers and apples and cookies. Is that where the house would go? Yes, but it is a little big.
索尼娅，你今天做了什么？我用鲜花、苹果和饼干做了一座房子。这就是那个房子吗？是的，但它有点大。

The World Health Organization says unclean water, poor hygiene, and bad sanitation are linked to four percent of deaths in the world, and six percent of debilitating illnesses including cholera, dysentery, and typhoid.
世界卫生组织表示，不干净的水、糟糕的卫生条件和恶劣的卫生设施与世界上百分之四的死亡 和百分之六的退行性疾病有关，这些疾病包括霍乱、痢疾和伤寒。

Many charities are helping, including one group of volunteers based in California.
许多慈善机构都在提供帮助，其中包括一群总部设在加州的志愿者。

This is one of the drill bits. It's about four inches. This is a clay cutter.
这是其中一个钻头。大约长四英寸。这是一个泥土切割机。

Employing local drillers water wells for Africa has dug 230 wells in villages in Malawi, a landlocked country in Southeast Africa.
他们雇佣当地钻探人员在马拉维的村子里挖了230口井，马拉维是东南部非洲的内陆国家。

The group has identified 30 other sites for future wells.
该组织还确定了另外三十个地点，确定了未来的水井位置。

Dahlan was working for a faith-based organization in 1994, when he saw how rural Africans got their water.
1994年，达岚正在为一个以信仰为基础的组织工作，当时他看到了非洲农村人口是如何获得水的。

Even if you have, you know, a local river nearby, it's polluted by wild animals, livestock.
即使附近有一条当地的河流，它也被野生动物和牲畜污染了。

They wash in it, they drink it, they bathe in it, you know, it's their only point of water, so every open water source is contaminated.
他们在河流里面洗衣服，喝那里的水，还在那里洗澡，这是他们唯一的水源地，所以每个开放的水源都受到了污染。

Malawi is one of Africa's poorest nations. But Dahlan says its people are known as warm-hearted.
马拉维是非洲最贫穷的国家之一。但达岚表示，这里的人民以热心著称。

In fact, their slogan is we're the warm heart of Africa. And they really live up to that. We found the most hospitable people you can imagine.
他们的口号是“我们是非洲的温暖之心”。他们也真的做到了这一点。这里的人们非常热情好客。

He says local people form committees to keep the wells operating, a crucial component for each community plan.
他说，当地人组成委员会来维持水井的运行， 这是每个社区计划的关键组成部分。

So we get five key leaders, male leaders and five female leaders, you know, for not only equality purposes,
我们选出五位关键领导人，五位男性领导人和五位女性领导人，这不仅是出于平等的目的，

but we all know the power of women, and they're the primary water collectors, so this thing breaks down, they're gonna make sure that it gets fixed.
而且我们都知道女性的力量，她们是主要的集水者，要是这东西坏了，她们会确保把它修好。

He says after more than 20 years, most of the earliest wells still work.
他说，二十多年后，大多数最早钻好的水井仍然会正常工作。

Dahlan's group is one of many organizations providing clean water to local communities, addressing the world's other major health crisis.
达岚的组织是为当地社区提供清洁水的众多组织之一，旨在解决世界上这个主要的健康危机。

I tend to think of myself as pretty quiet and shy.
我认为自己是一个安静且容易害羞的人。

I like to think I have a good amount of confidence but I kind of keep it reserved. I eat lots and lots of fruits and vegetables.
我认为自己其实是很有自信的，但总是不表现出来。我吃很多果蔬。

As you can imagine, I waste very, very little in my household, and I really believe that clean eating is a way to a more successful life, or a happier life if you want to put it that way.
正如你可以想象的那样，我在家里浪费掉的东西非常少，我真心认为健康饮食是通往更成功生活的途径，或者也可以说是通往更幸福生活的途径。

You start the day with a healthy meal, I guarantee you're going to feel better throughout that day and throughout that week.
如果你以健康的饮食开始新的一天，我保证，在那一天、甚至在那一周，你都会感觉更好。

You'll be more motivated to do better in school, to get a better job, to maybe go workout or be more successful.
你会更有动力，在学校取得好成绩，找到更好的工作，也许还会去锻炼，或者变得更成功。

And so it's really unfortunate that our food system is set up so: calories are cheap, but the nutrition is expensive.
很遗憾，我们的食品体系竟是如此运作：热量高的食物很便宜，但是营养高的食物却很贵。

We're looking to change the face of produce to make it really accessible, really affordable for people that really need it.
我们希望能够改变农产品的面貌，让真正需要它的人能够买得起。

So if you walk down a grocery store aisle and you see perfect looking apple, perfect looking apple, perfect looking apple, imperfect looking apple,
如果你在杂货店看到完美无瑕的苹果，也有外观有瑕疵的苹果，

meaning it's too big or too small or it has a bruise on it, you wouldn't choose it in a grocery store, and that would get thrown away, right?
个头太大或太小，或者表面有瘀伤，在杂货店里你不会选后者，然后它就会被扔掉。

We use the perception of, it's not what it looks like, it's what it tastes like.
我们秉持的理念是，重要的不是它看起来如何，而是它尝起来怎样。

And even the ugly stuff tastes even better than the stuff you would find in a grocery store, because it's not processed, it doesn't have wax on it.
就连那些卖相不佳的蔬果，尝起来也比超市里买到的更美味，因为它们未经加工处理，表面也没有打蜡。

It's straight out of the grounds, right? So it's even fresher and it tastes even better than the stuff you find in a grocery store.
它是直接从地里采摘的，所以比你在杂货店里看到的那些产品更新鲜，味道更好。

So our company is called Hungry Harvest. We have three different options.
我们公司的名称叫做Hungry Harvest。我们有三种不同的选择。

We have an organic, we have a recovered box, and we have an all fruit option.
有有机食品，有可回收的盒式产品，还有全水果产品。
We sell produce with purpose. We hire people that were formerly in prison.
我们带着目标销售农产品。我们雇佣曾经坐过牢的人。

We've hired people that were formerly injured or were sick, that are living in homeless shelters that were really looking to get back on their feet, and for a second chance in life.
我们雇佣那些以前受过伤或者是生病的人，他们无家可归，住在收容所里，希望自己能够重新振作起来，获得人生的第二次机会。

It is a trip to the spa unlike anything Remy Meraz has experienced. It was really like I was on vacation.
这次水疗经历与雷米·米拉兹以往经历过的都不一样。感觉我真的像是在度假一样。

Meraz picks a location she wants to experience. Then she gets geared up with a virtual reality headset.
米拉兹选择了一个她想体验的地方，然后戴上了虚拟现实耳机。

She has the massage chair adjusted to her size and intensity preference, and sinks in for a virtual vacation. And an immersive multi-sensory experience begins.
她根据自己的身材和强度偏好调整好了按摩椅，并沉浸在虚拟度假中。 一场身临其境的多感官体验开始了。

A fan, infrared heat, and aromatherapy with scents in the air are all triggered, when the user enters the virtual world in their headset.
当用户进入头显中的虚拟世界时，会触发风扇、红外线加热器和带有香味的空气芳香疗法。

Your mind processes the sense, it processes the warmth, it processes for, you know, the tropical treat, the wind from the fans, and so you really believe you're in these environments.
你的大脑处理着感官信息，处理着温暖的感觉，处理热带的感觉，以及风扇吹来的风，你真心相信自己置身于这些环境中。

The heat lamp gives users the feeling of the Sun's warmth on their face, or in front of a cozy fireplace.
加热灯让用户的脸上能感受到阳光的温暖，或感觉像在舒适的壁炉前一样。

In addition to this cabin on a cold winter's day, other experiences include a calm pool in Morocco, and even an outerspace experience.
除了这个寒冬中的小屋，还有其它度假体验，包括摩洛哥的宁静泳池，甚至还有外太空体验。

Meraz chose a trip to the forest waterfalls.
米拉兹选择了去森林瀑布旅行。

I could smell the aroma of what it would feel like in a forest. It was, you know, woodsy sense. I could feel cool air blowing on me.
我能闻到森林里的香气。就像是那种身处树林间的感觉。我能感受到迎面吹来了凉爽的风。

These virtual locations still do not look quite like video of a real place.
这些虚拟的地点看起来仍然不太像真实的场景。

And for some users, the headset does make it tough to get a good neck massage.
对于一些用户来说，戴着耳机确实让他们很难获得良好的颈部按摩体验。

But for Meraz, she got the ultimate proof of relaxation.
但对于米拉兹来说，她得到了充分的放松。

There are three different points where I almost fell asleep.
有三个地方我差一点就要睡着了。

Currently the 35-dollar mini vacation is only available in Los Angeles.
目前，35美元的迷你假期仅在洛杉矶提供。

The goal is to license this virtual experience to other cities, so hotels, spas, and offices can give people a quick escape from the stresses of the real world.
目标是将这种虚拟体验授权给其他城市，这样酒店、水疗中心和办公室就能让人们快速逃离现实世界的压力。