VOA双语新闻：5、研究报告：人类少吃肉对环境有好处

研究报告：人类少吃肉对环境有好处 A new study says one of the best ways to curb greenhouse gas emissions is to eat less meat. In fact, the study says meat consumption in the developed should be cut by 50 percent per person by 2050. 一份

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. As Valentines day approaches, remember, its the thought that counts. Just ask a decorated cricket. Because according to a study published in the January

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Many of the key molecules for life have a specific direction, or handedness: DNA twists to the right, amino acids to the left. Now scientists at the Nation

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1. What is the man's initial reason for visiting the dentist? A. He wanted to have a filling replaced. B. He needed to have a tooth pulled. C. He came in for a dental check up. 2. What problem does the dentist discover when he takes a look in the pat

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How does acid deposition affect human health? We eat food, drink water, and breathe air that has come in contact with acid deposition. Canadian and U.S. studies indicate that there is a link between t

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AGRICULTURE REPORT - Legumes: Good for People and SoilBy Bob Bowen Broadcast: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Many different kinds of plants

VOA慢速英语--藻类可能有助于解决世界饥饿

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. Nearly 790 million people around the world do not get enough to eat. Most of them live in developing countries. Many parts of the developing world do not have transportation systems in p

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By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: July 30, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. A medical study says foods rich in a kind of fat may help prevent Alzheimer's disease. Alzhei

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. In 1953 a student named Stanley Miller did an experiment showing that the simple chemicals present on the early Earth could give rise to the basic buildi

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The early Earths oceans were home to a lot of interesting chemistry. Now scientists have found that amino acids thought to be present way back when could have been cooked into other compounds vital for lifean idea you should take with a grain of salt

VOA标准英语2010年-Research: Fish Oil May Slow Aging of H

Scientists say that omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil can help people with heart disease live longer. But until now, no one knew why omega-3 oils are so beneficial. This is what coronary artery disease looks like. Plaque builds up inside the coronary a

VOA标准英语2012--Addressing Climate Change through Diet

Addressing Climate Change through Diet A new study says one of the best ways to curb greenhouse gas emissions is to eat less meat. In fact, the study says meat consumption in the developed should be cut by 50 percent per person by 2050. Meat producti

TED演讲:食物是如何影响大脑的(1)

If you sucked all of the moisture out of your brain and broke it down to its constituent nutritional content, what would it look like? 如果将你大脑里所有的水分都吸干，然后按不同的营养成分进行分类，会是怎样呢？ Mos

TED演讲:什么是脂肪(1)

Olive oil is 100% fat; there's nothing else in it. 橄榄油含有100%的脂肪，除此之外没有别的。 Pancake mix, on the other hand, is only about 11% fat. 相反，煎饼只有约11%的脂肪。 And, yet, olive oil is good for you, and panc

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AGRICULTURE REPORT - Scientists Clone Pigs to Make Omega-3 Fatty AcidsBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 I'm Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists s

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对眼睛有益的10种食物

You need to take proper care of your eyes to maintain good eyesight. There are few fundamental rules that have to be done for good eye care. As you know very well that exposure to sun is very bad for the eyes. Similarly, if you use computer for long

万物简史 第409期:生命的起源(3)

There are actually twenty-two naturally occurring amino acids known on Earth, 实际上，地救上有22种天然存在的氨基酸， and more may await discovery, but only twenty of them are necessary to produce us and most other living things. 更多

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Proteins are what you get when you string amino acids together, and we need a lot of them. 你把氨基酸串在一起，就得到了蛋白质。我们需要大量的蛋白质。 No one really knows, but there may be as many as a million types of pro

每天吃鲑鱼 像戒烟一样有益

Eating a small steak every day could be as good for you as stopping smoking, scientists say. 科学家说，每天吃一小块牛排可以像戒烟一样对你有好处。 People who eat lots of protein-rich food were found to have lower blood pressu