时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:2010年VOA慢速英语(十)月


英语课

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.


A neighborhood barbershop might seem to some Americans like a thing of the past. Today men often get their hair cut at the same salons 1 as women.


But the traditional barbershop still holds a special place in black culture. A barbershop is a place of trust where men can talk about things they might not want women to hear. This is why black-owned barbershops increasingly offer more than just a haircut. Men also receive health education and testing that could save their life.


Right now a program called the Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program is traveling to fifty cities across the United States. A doctor started the program in California in two thousand seven. It tests men for diabetes 2, high blood pressure and other conditions, and provides information about how to stay healthy.


Black men are three times more likely than white men in the United States to die from high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. They are also more likely to get diabetes.


A new study has examined the barbershop health-care model in Dallas, Texas. The study involved about one thousand three hundred customers at seventeen black barbershops.



Dwight Woods has his blood pressure checked by Meghan Welsh at Flotrin's Barber Shop in St. Louis in this file photo


Researchers had the barbers at eight of the shops continue to just give haircuts. The other barbers learned how to measure blood pressure and offered it with every haircut.


If a customer had a high blood pressure, the barber would intervene 3. The customer would be urged to see a doctor. If the man did not have a doctor, then a visit to one would be set up. Customers who went to a doctor would get their next haircut free of charge.


The study lasted ten months. All of the men had their blood pressure taken at the start. They also received educational materials about hypertension.


The study found that blood pressure rates decreased at the shops where the barbers intervened 4 and also at those where they did not. But the difference was in the amount.


Twenty percent of the men who were urged to see a doctor got their blood pressure down to a healthy level. So did only eleven percent of the men who just got haircuts.


Researchers from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles did the study, reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Doctor Ronald Victor, the study leader, says barbers historically were members of the medical profession. So he thinks it makes a lot of sense for today's barbers to act as "health care extenders" by sharpening their skills.


And that's the VOA Special English Health Report, written by Caty Weaver 5. You can comment on our reports on our website, voaspecialenglish.com. I’m Steve Ember

 



1 salons
n.(营业性质的)店( salon的名词复数 );厅;沙龙(旧时在上流社会女主人家的例行聚会或聚会场所);(大宅中的)客厅
  • He used to attend to his literary salons. 他过去常常去参加他的文学沙龙。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Conspiracy theories about Jewish financiers were the talk of Paris salons. 犹太金融家阴谋论成为巴黎沙龙的话题。 来自互联网
2 diabetes
n.糖尿病
  • In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者,医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
  • Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。
3 intervene
vi.干涉,干预,干扰,阻挠
  • When riot broke out,the police were obliged to intervene.发生暴乱时,警察有责任干预。
  • You don't intervene between those two drunks.你不要在那两个酒鬼之间进行调解。
4 intervened
阻碍( intervene的过去式和过去分词 ); 出面; 插嘴; 介于…之间
  • The President intervened personally in the crisis. 总统亲自出面处理这场危机。
  • We enjoyed the picnic until a thunderstorm intervened. 那次野餐我们玩得很痛快,后来一场暴风雨使它中断了。
5 weaver
n.织布工;编织者
  • She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快,而且布的质量很好。
  • The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。
学英语单词
Acetobacterium
acrbonic acid esters
admortization
Allantoidea
Amenemhet I
anaporate
anoplophora chinensis (f?rster)
aregenerative
bank opinion
be steeped to the lips in vice
bruit de frottement
Cameleon.
Camellia lancilimba
can not stand
carload lot
chocolate diamond
co-incide
common privets
cotton textile agreement
cow her
dhamra r.
dissolvane
dunderfunk
e/p (converter (electric pneumatic))
electrochemical current
ex nunc
Far-Downer
Feleacu
Ferri-metahalloysite
fluoro-gold-complex
fuckmuppets
God's bones
goose-winging
grizzel
grunt work
haematopota antennata
hawkmoth
hermitess
heterosequential
high-water interval
hot spring sanitarium
hypertropy of heart
hyxosephosphate dehydrogenase
imbounds
indent
jn
karst region
last level register
Latorica(Latorytsya)
law of equal declivity
laying-up basin
leukorrh(o)eal
liquid crystalline polymer
maculae corneae
maggic
malja
many-distribution comparisons
mechanism of styrenation
migratory restlessness
mobility center
multilobar
multiplication factor
namuwite
nautiloids
niazi
non-homogeneous media
orcl
osteophagia
overmix
pectinates
Pillsbury Seamount
pitch gear
platform atomization
pneumatically operated grass seed drill
power on light
primary flight control (pfc)
pulley-piece
qingheiites
quantum of damages
quoll
ragpicked
residual electric polarization
Resita
respectables
saussurea lappas
scissor jump
self-powered meter
skeleton shrimps
split-ring piston packing
starkly
strictly pseudoconvex
structure with storage class attribute
subtropical monsoon climate
talk you up
thea reticulata l.
three-percent
Ti-n-Edrine
time-starved
triamides
valley meander
Wealdsmen
work values