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Hey my friend, what's up? How's your day going? Welcome to our next lesson.
This one is called "Healthy at 100." Healthy at 100 is the name of a book by John Rabbins. It's a fantastic book, very interesting and the topic of this book is exactly what the title says: How to be a healthy person at the age of 100, which seems kind of amazing to most people. Can you be healthy? Can you be strong? Can you have energy when you're 100 years old? And the answer is absolutely yes.
Now, how did John Rabbins write this book? It's very interesting.
Well, what he did, personally and then with his research assistants, he studied cultures, places in the world where large numbers of people live to be very old. But not only just live to be old, because, y'know, if you live to be old but you're weak, that's not very fun ...
So he studied places that had a lot of very old people who were also very strong, very energetic, very healthy, very happy. There's a big difference if you're 90 years old and you're in a nursing home and you're weak and sick, and ugh. That's a terrible life.
But if you're 90 years old and you're out running and you feel great, well that's fantastic. And there are cultures like this and there are also a lot of individual people like this. And when I say a lot, I don't mean a lot by percentage. It's a small percent of the human population. But still there are thousands of these kind of people, I don't know, maybe hundreds of thousands, maybe millions. I'm not sure what the exact number is. But you can find these people. You can find specific cultures where there are a lot of them. And then you can find individuals.
And so John Rabbins was very curious about this and he wanted to know why. Why, why do some people live strong, long, healthy, active lives for a very, very long time? Why are some people so strong when they're older and live so much longer? And then other people, y'know, they're 60 years old, they're already tired and sick. What's the difference is what he wanted to know.
And so he studied different groups. One of the groups were people, traditional people, on the island of Okinawa, Japan.
Okinawa now has a lot of modern culture, a lot of American influence. And those people do not live so long. And they're not
so healthy. But the kind of people who live on Okinawa in a traditional way, the way they always have for a very long time, those people are very special. They live very long lives and they're very strong and healthy. They're still working when they're 80 or 90 years old, working like on farms, like hard, physical work.
He studied another group of people in Pakistan, same thing. They lived to be 90, 100, over 100, and the whole time they're working, doing heavy, hard, physical work. It's pretty amazing.
And then another thing they did is they studied individual people.
There are just certain people, for example one of my favorites, one of my favorite teachers, he's dead now but I think he's a great example. And his name is Paul Bragg. Paul Bragg was in America one of the first people to start health food stores. He kind of started the health movement in America. He was one of the first people to start eating organic food, for example. W ell Paul Bragg, he is very interesting. He <lied when he was, I believe, 96 years old.
You know, that's pretty good itself, he lived to be 96. But here's the cool part, this is the part I love. How did he die when he was in 96? Was hein a bed sick with cancer? No, he was surfing. He was surfing when he was 96 years old and it was a surfing accident. Like I don't know what happened. I guess he was
surfing and he fell off the board and another surfboard hit him in the head or he hit a rock or something. You know, it's sad that he
<lied, of course. But he <lied active. He's out on the waves surfing in the ocean. And he's 96 years old. Awesome!
We can find a lot of people like this actually. And what's really interesting when you compare these different peoples in Okinawa, in Pakistan, other parts of the world, they have similar things.
They're all doing similar things. There's a reason. It's not random, remember that word? lt's not random. lt's not luck. And it's not because of their family members, because Paul Bragg's father and mother didn't live really long and really strong.
lt' s something they are doing. So that's what this book is about, Healthy at 100. And one of the things they study in the book is cancer. Why do some people get cancer at a high rate and other people very, very low rate of cancer?
They eat very little meat. They almost never drink milk or dairy products or eat cheese. They are eating a lot of fresh organic vegetables basically. And, of course, fruit as well. I mean that's the big secret. Yes, you've got to exercise and move your body. That's another part. He talks about that diet is one big factor but also moving your body and getting a lot of exercise and physical activity, of course, is very important as well. Those two factors are
the biggest factors in determining how long you will live, how healthy you will be, how strong you will be, how much energy you will have in your body.
So, y'know, it's always personal choice, people need to decide on their own. l'm nota vegan or vegetarian, but I think it's always good to be aware.
Do your research. Get on the internet if you want to and do some research. You have an amazing ability now in your English and that is to become more knowledgable. For every scientific study, book or even youtube channel in Spanish, there's like 10000 in English! Take advantage of that and learn new things!
Alright, we'll see you in the next one!
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There was a guy named Joe. Joe wanted to be a famous movie star.
Was he a famous movie star?
No, he wasn't a movie star. He wanted to be a movie star.
What didJoe want to be?
He wanted to be a movie star.
Did he want to be a football player?
No, no, no, no, no, no. He didn't want to be a football player.
What kind of star did he want to be?
A movie star, Joe wanted to be a movie star.
So, first he decided to get thin. He needed a good body. He stopped eating dairy products.
What kind of products did he stop eating?
W ell, dairy products, he stopped eating dairy products.
Did he stop eating cheese?
Yes, he stopped eating cheese.
Did he stop drinking milk?
Yes, he stopped drinking milk. He stopped eating and drinking dairy products.
Who stopped eating and drinking dairy products?
Joe, Joe stopped eating and drinking dairy products.
What kind of products?
Dairy products, he stopped eating and drinking dairy products.
Next he decided no more sugar or fat. He said "I won't eat sugar
or f:at anymore."
What did he stop?
He stopped all consumption of sugar and fat.
Did he eat sugar and fat anymore?
No, he stopped all consumption of sugar and fat.
Who stopped all consumption of sugar and fat?
W ell, of course, Joe. Joe stopped all consumption of sugar and fat.
He stopped all consumption of what?
All sugar and all fat, he stopped all consumption of all sugar and all fat.
Why?
Because he wanted to be a movie star, he wanted to have a thin body first. Movie stars are usually thin. So he stopped eating dairy products. He stopped consuming fat and sugar.
Next he studied famous movie stars. He studied them very carefully. What did they look like? What did they do? And he saw a correlation between being a movie star and having big teeth.
Did he find a connection between big teeth and movie stars?
Oh yes, he did. He found a connection. He found most movie stars have very big teeth. lnteresting.
He saw a correlation between what?
He saw a correlation between big teeth and being a famous movie star. They're connected.
Who saw a correlation between big teeth and being a movie star?
Joe saw it. Joe saw a correlation, a connection, between having big teeth and being a famous movie star.
What did he find? What did he see?
A correlation, a connection, between big teeth and being famous as a movie star.
Did Joe naturally, genetically have small or big teeth?
W ell, unfortunately Joe had very small teeth. ln fact, Joe had tiny little teeth.
Genetically, did he have little tiny teeth or huge big teeth?
He had small teeth.
Joe's father had little small teeth. Joe's mother had little small teeth. AU his brothers had little small teeth and Joe had little small teeth. It was genetic.
Genetically he had big teeth or small teeth?
Small teeth.
Was it genetic or was it behavior that caused his small teeth?
Well genetics, right? It was a genetic trait. It was connected to his biology connected to his family. It was a genetic trait, having small teeth.
What was the correlation he found?
W ell, he found a correlation between big teeth and being a famous movie star.
They're connected.
He thought "Oh no, to be a movie star I must have big teeth. But mine are tiny and small."
He had a problem.
So he went to the hospital and he talked to a doctor. He said "Doctor, I need big teeth. Look at my teeth. They're tiny. I'll never be a movie star."
The doctor said "I'm sorry, I can't help you. You need to see a dentist, a special dentist."
And so Joe went to see a special dentist, a dentist who made teeth
bigger. And he said to the dentist "Please help me. I want to be a movie star. But there's a correlation between big teeth and being a movie star. I have to have big teeth." And the dentist said "No
problem." And so Joe had an operation.
Why did Joe have an operation?
He had an operation to get big teeth.
Why did he want big teeth?
Well, of course, obviously so he could be a movie star. And so he had the operation.
It was successful. After the operation Joe had big freakin' huge teeth.
Did he have freakin' big teeth?
Oh yes, they were freakin' huge. They were big gigantic freakin' teeth, the biggest teeth in the world.
Who had freakin' big teeth?
Joe, Joe had freakin' teeth.
What kind of teeth did he have?
Freakin' big huge gigantic teeth.
What happened next?
Well, obviously he became a famous movie star. To be a movie star you only need freakin' huge teeth. Everybody knows this. So Joe had freakin' big teeth and he was also thin. That's all that was necessary. Joe had freakin' big teeth.
He became a famous movie star. ln fact, one year later he was the most famous movie star in the United States.
Why was he the most famous movie star in the United States?
Well, because he had big teeth. He had the biggest freakin' teeth in all of America, in all of the world.
Who had the biggest teeth in the world?
Joe, Joe had the biggest freakin' teeth in the world so, of course, he was the biggest freakin' movie star in the world.
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And that is the end of our happy story. I hope you enjoyed the mini-story. I hope you're smiling. Shoulders are back. Chest is up.
Breathing deep, moving that body, enjoying your English learning.
See you in the next one.
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What's up! This is me again, I hope you're excited for today's story! Let's get started with the POV, point of view mini-story for "Healthy at 100." Same story, different points of view.
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Since he was 16 Joe has wanted to be a movie star.
Since when?
Since he was 16, since he was 16 Joe has wanted to be a movie star.
Who has wanted to be a movie star? Bill?
Not Bill, Joe. Joe has wanted to be a movie star.
Since when?
Since he was 16, since he was 16 Joe has wanted to be a movie star. Starting when he was 16 and continuing.
What has he wanted since he was 16?
To be a movie star, he has wanted to be a movie star since he was 16.
Has he wanted to be a football player since he was 16?
No, he hasn't wanted to be a football player. He has wanted to be a movie star.
What kind of star has he wanted to be?
He has wanted to be a movie star.
Has he wanted to be a movie star a little or a lot?
Well, he has wanted to be a movie star a lot, really, really, really wanted to be a movie star. He has wanted to be a movie star so much, a lot, since he was 16 years old. And now he's 38.
So he's wanted to be a movie star from 16 until age 38, during that whole time. The whole time, every moment during that time, he has wanted to be a movie star.
Well, finally one day he just decided "l'm going to doit. I will be a mo.v1e star."
He decided to get thin. So he stopped eating dairy products and he said "No more consumption of sugar and fat."
Then he studied other stars. He studied them very carefully. And he saw a correlation, a connection, between big teeth and being a famous movie star. Now, unfortunately he has always had tiny teeth, I mean since he was born. He has had tiny teeth since he was born.
Has Joe always had tiny little teeth?
Yeah, Joe has always had tiny little teeth.
Since when?
W ell, since he was born, since he was a tiny baby. Starting when he was a tiny baby until age 38, he has always had little tiny teeth.
But he decided to change that also. He got an operation from a dentist and the dentist gave him huge freakin' teeth.
What did the dentist give him?
The dentist gave him huge teeth.
And so, one year later, Joe became the biggest, most famous movie star in the world.
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Alright, that's the end of our first point of view story. You notice the change a couple times, right? I started with "has wanted to be". Since he was 16, has wanted to be. And then we say he decided, boom, just happened. And then we went back again and we said since he was a baby he has had tiny teeth, starting when he was a baby until now, well until 38. And then we change back again. Got an operation, gave him big teeth. Just notice the changes. That's all you need to do. You don't need to remember the name of the grammar terms or rules. Don't remember any of that, doesn't matter. Notice the changes. Notice when they change, how they change. That's all you need to do. Don't analyze it. Don't think aboutit. Just notice it. Hear it. Listen to it. That's all you need to do. Relax.
Alright, on to the next one, into the future. Now here's my idea for a story and we're going to say for next year.
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So next year there'll be a guy. This guy will be named Joe. Joe will want to be a massive huge movie star. He'll want to be a big movie star.
W ell, first he's going to decide to get thin. He'll stop eating dairy products. He'll stop consuming sugar and fat. He'll say "l'm not gonna eat sugar or fat anymore, starting today, into the future.
l'm not gonna eat sugar or fat." So he'll do that.
Next he's gonna study famous movie stars and he'll see a correlation between big teeth and being famous. He' s going to see, he's going to realize, that there's a correlation between having big teeth and being a famous movie star.
Now unfortunately, Joe's gonna have tiny teeth, I mean genetically, naturally, genetically. His whole family is gonna have tiny little teeth. And Joe will have tiny little teeth, too.
So, he'll decide to get an operation. He'll go to a doctor first then he'll go to a dentist. And this dentist will give him huge freakin' teeth. Big, big teeth. And this is going to be successful. It' s gonna be hugely successful.
ln fact, one year later, he's gonna be the most famous, the biggest movie star in all of the United States and in all of the world. He'll be a huge big star because of his huge big teeth.
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And that is the end of our point of view staries. Hope you enjoyed them. Smile. Breathe. Move your body. Big, big, big grin on your face, corne on. You just finished the point of view
story. Rock on. You're great. You're fantastic. You're an excellent English learner. Thank you for being my student. I will see you next time.
See ya!