[219th]Answering best diet question / TV Drama Getting People Travelling/Koreans Flock to Mourn Death of Cardinal

[Bendy]

혹시 틀린 부분이 있다면 콕콕 지적해주세요.^^*

1. Low-fat? Low-carbs? Answering best diet question
The dieting world screams with contradictory advice: Carbs are evil; carbs are good for you. "Good fat" is healthy; "good fat" has tons of calories.
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center put four popular diets -- high carb, high fat, low-fat and high protein -- to the test to see which of the regimens resulted in more weight-loss success.
After two years of monitoring the participants, "all the diets were winners," said study co-author Dr. Frank Sacks, a professor of cardiovascular disease prevention at the Harvard School of Public Health. "All produced weight loss and improvements in lipids, reduction in insulin.
"The key really is that it's calories. It's not the content of fat or carbohydrates, it's just calories," said Sacks. The findings are published in the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
For the study, 811 overweight adults in Boston, Massachusetts, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were assigned to one of four diets.
A quarter went on a carbohydrate-heavy diet, some on high-fat, others on low-fat and the remaining on high-protein diet. The four diets were not based on popular diets, Sacks said.
Regardless of diet, most participants had dramatic weight loss after six months, losing an average of 13 pounds.
According to Sacks' research, many of the 800-plus participants regained weight after a year, but about 80 percent of them lost at least eight pounds after two years. And 15 percent of the participants lost at least 10 percent of their body weight.
The study, funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, showed little difference in users' satiety, hunger or satisfaction with their diets.
Participants could attend individual sessions where dieticians educated them and group sessions where they discussed their experiences with one another.
Those who had better attendance in the sessions had stronger weight-loss results. "These findings together point to behavioral factors rather than macronutrient metabolism as the main influences on weight loss," according to the study. Macronutrients are the three main nutrients the body uses in relatively large amounts: proteins, carbohydrates and fats.
"No one of those diets are necessarily better than any other diet," Sacks said.
In an accompanying editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, Martijin B. Katan wrote the researchers' hypothesis is "plausible," but said the "differences in macronutrient intake were too small."
There was an underlying similarity between the four diets.
On average, the overweight participants had a 750-calorie reduction per day. An average-sized male who consumed 2,800 calories a day was prescribed just over 2,000 calories and a woman who ate 2000 calories a day was prescribed 1,250 calories.
All diets were compatible with American Heart Association guidelines, Sack said. The study did not give the participants food. For the first 10 days, participants received menus, then were assigned to create their own using the healthy food options.
Depending on their prescribed diet, participants ate a wide range of carbohydrates, fat and protein, derived from healthy foods, such as olive oil, pasta and nut butter.
From these results, Sacks recommends going with "the diet you feel most comfortable that is healthy, that appeals to you in terms of what foods are in it, that isn't a drastic crash diet. Whatever allows you to keep the calories down and not feel really deprived."
Calorie restriction can be done without feeling deprived, said Dr. Luigi Fontana, an associate professor of medicine at the Washington University who studies the effects of calorie restriction on longevity. But he warns against just halving a person's current diet.
"A lot of people think of calorie restriction like eating half a hamburger, half a pack of French fries -- that you can obtain by reducing in half your portions," Fontana said. "That's calorie restriction with malnutrition."
Dr. Melina Jampolis, the diet and fitness expert for CNNhealth warned against drastic measures like completely focusing on one macronutrient. "People want to be extreme," she said. "You say cut back on sugar, they cut it completely. The take-home would be that there is no markedly superior diet. If there was, people wouldn't stick with it anyway."

1) Have you ever tried to lose or gain weight? If so, what were your plans in terms of nutrition and exercise? Did you follow those steps you made and achieve your goal?
2) What makes some people to desperately want to lose weight? Prejudice? Fads or trends? Satisfaction? It would be good to share diet stories of your own or others and how much do they care about it.
3) Let’s think about all the foods you ate today. Are you conscious of what you eat and how it affects your body?


2. TV Drama Getting People Travelling
Heroine Geum Jan-di and the main character Gu Jun-pyo take a romantic getaway to a New Caledonian beach in KBS smash hit “Boys Over Flowers.”
New Calenodia Surges as Popular Place

Japanese writer Katsura Morimura described the place as ``The Island Closest to Heaven,'' but it wasn't until four fabulous boys took a little girl out on a romantic spree that New Caledonia has appealed to Koreans as a must-visit destination.

The small screen smash hit shows glimpses of the luxurious lives of jet-setting, wealthy heirs. With the tourism industry struggling due to the plummeting economy, Korean audiences are smiling, with people rushing to catch a glimpse of the F4 ― the four fabulous boys.

The TV drama showed every aspect of the island ― its cozy but flashy resorts, the heart-shaped island; helicopter tour and other leisure activities one can take part in on a holiday there. Likewise, New Caledonia Tourism has been holding aggressive promotions in recent years, from providing free flights as lottery prizes to holding online campaigns.

However, upon being featured in the drama, it suddenly became a coveted vacation destination. According to Web page ranker Overture, the New Caledonia Tourism Web site marked 13,107 page views through portals such as Naver and Yahoo to become the most viewed tourism office Web site among Koreans in January, leaving Singapore, in second place, far behind, with 7,046 views.

Tourists agencies are busy preparing special packages for honeymooners. Lotte, Mode and other major agencies are rushing to attract travelers with bargain prices ranging from 1.7 million to 3 million.

Macao is now becoming audiences ― second target. Dubbed the ``Las Vegas of Asia,'' the little Chinese territory is filled with extravagant hotels, casinos and shopping malls.

From artificial torrents to staggering casinos and luxurious restaurants and hotels, the jaw dropping scenery matched with the business tycoon image of the beautiful boys as adults.

``We are not really seeing the number of tourists going up yet since our episode aired only a couple of weeks ago, but we're definitely receiving more telephone calls since then, some asking about specific locations in the drama,'' Lee Min-young, a Macao Tourists' Office staff member, said.

The online world is heating up. Bloggers are busy posting pictures and portal sites are filled with people asking questions about the place.

1) Do you like traveling? What kind of benefits you could get from travel? Let’s share our travel episodes and recommend decent place.
2) Are you a type of person who goes travel without a well-planned schedule? Or do you like to go somewhere unexpectedly and decide what to do at that time?
3) Which country do you most like to visit? And why?

3. Koreans Flock to Mourn Death of Cardinal
Hundreds of South Koreans flocked to Seoul's landmark cathedral Tuesday, offering their prayers to Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, the country's first cardinal who stood with the people in the pro-democracy movement of the 1980s, Yonhap News reported Tuesday.

Kim, who was promoted to the rank of cardinal by Pope Paul VI in 1969, died at Seoul's St. Mary's Hospital Monday evening at the age of 86. He was said to have died peacefully, surrounded by family and members of the parish.

Kim's body was laid in a glass coffin at the Myeongdong Cathedral in central Seoul late Monday. The church has been drawing crowds of faithful wanting to pay their last respects and catch a glimpse of the man who had been their spiritual leader for decades.

The cathedral will be open to all citizens, including non-Catholics, for four days until Friday when a funeral mass will be held, officials at the Archdiocese of Seoul said.

President Lee Myung-bak, a Protestant, called Kim's death a "great loss to the nation," praising the cardinal's symbolic role in the country's democratic and labor movements, Yonhap said.

South Koreans remember Kim not only as their first Roman Catholic cardinal but also as an ardent supporter of democracy who unreservedly stood up against the authoritarian governments that reigned here from the 1960s through the 80s.

During his sermons, Kim often outspokenly criticized the governments of Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan for suppressing student activists and labor unions.

In 1987, he hid dozens of anti-government student activists at the Myeongdong Cathedral and told authorities who came to arrest them, "You'll be able to get to the students only after you get past me, the priests and the nuns."

Kim was born to a poor family in the southeastern city of Daegu in 1922 as the youngest son of eight children. His family's Catholic faith was considered unusual at the time in the traditionally Confucian society, with Catholicism being first introduced to the peninsula as late as 1784. Kim's grandfather died in prison after being persecuted for his religion.

Kim was the Archbishop of Seoul from 1968 until 1998 and also showed devotion to North Korean churches and their congregations. He established an inter-Korean religious organization in 1995, in hopes that religious persecution would one day cease in the North and the two nations would reunify.

Kim's death leaves Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk as the only remaining South Korean cardinal. Cheong succeeded Kim in 2006.

Kim's eyes were donated to two patients awaiting cornea transplants, per his final wishes.

1) After Kim’s death, a wave of organ donation is spreading into our warm-hearted Korean people. Do you willing to give your organ to others someday?
2) Nowadays, our country is filled with various negative issues such as economic downturn, unemployment rate, skyrocketing household price. But do you believe there is a seed of love and hope growing from our heart? Where can we find that?
3) It would not be easy to unify people who have different ideas and characteristics. When you are in school or company, have you ever take the initiative to collaborate with others?<p>[파일:1]</p><p>[파일:2]</p>

[pseudo]

topic 1 - 2) how much .. 에서 do 빼는게 좋지 않을까? 혹시나 3번 질문은 나처럼 늦잠자고 헐레벌떡 오는 사람도 있으니 어제로 바꿔주면 어떨지? 어쨌거나 충렬이나 지훈이가 아주 열성적으로 대답할만한 질문인듯 ㅋㅋ

[pseudo]

topic 2 - 1) decent place 앞에 a, any, some 등이 들어가면 좋을듯

[pseudo]

topic 3 - 1) do you willing to -> are you willing to 가 맞지 않나 싶다. 전체적으로 질문에 예가 많이 들어가서 반가운걸.

[혜정이]

ㅋㅋ오빠를 보니까 갑자기 빨간펜이 생각나요.ㅋㅋ 첨삭지도^^

[Lucas]

형 진짜 구몬선생님같아여.ㅋㅋ 아 벤디 완전 신경써서했구나.ㅎㅎ