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<P>Topic : No, thanks. I’m on a Diet.</P>
<P>Let’s talk about dieting today. There are so many people in this world that are starving to death, but in advanced countries there are many overweight people who go on diets. I have to admit, I’m also on a diet right now. </P>
<P>With so many diet products on the market, it’s hard to decide what’s the most appropriate way to go on a diet. Crash dieting is very popular among young women, but they later realize that it doesn’t work. Our society is so conscious of physical attractiveness. </P>
<P>This causes some people to crash diet or even get liposuction to look thinner. Looking thinner becomes a strong pressure for young women. The results are sometimes hazardous to their health because some become anorexic or bulimic. The worst-case scenario is death from over-dieting.</P>
<P>Question <BR>1. What kinds of diets have you been on?<BR>2. Why do people go on a diet? What are some problems people encounter while on diets?<BR>3. You have probably heard of many ways of dieting. What would you recommend as the best <BR>way to diet in healthy way?<BR>4. Do you think our society is too conscious of physical attractiveness?<BR>5. Korean society seeks women with skinny figures. Why do you think so?</P>
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<P>#2. Can Men and Women Be Friends?<BR>If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, it may explain at least one of their shared beliefs: Men and women can't be real friends. Blame the sexual tension that almost inevitably exists between any red-blooded, heterosexual man and woman. Point to the jealousy that plagues many rational people when a significant other befriends someone of the opposite sex. Boil it down to the inherent differences between the sexes. It just can't be done. Right?<BR>Not true, according to relationship experts. "The belief that men and women can't be friends comes from another era in which women were at home and men were in the workplace, and the only way they could get together was for romance," explained Linda Sapadin, a psychologist in New York. "Now they work together and share sports interests and socialize together." This cultural shift has encouraged psychologists, sociologists and communications experts to put forth a new message: Though it may be tricky, men and women can successfully become close friends. What's more, there are good reasons for them to do so.<BR>Society has long singled out romance as the archetypical male-female relationship because it produces babies and keeps the life cycle going; cross-sex friendship, as researchers call it, has been either ignored or trivialized. We have rules for how to act in romantic relationships (flirt, date, get married, have kids) and even same-sex friendships (boys relate by doing activities together, girls by talking and sharing). But there are so few platonic male-female friendships on display that we're at a loss to even define these relationships.<BR>Part of this confusion stems from the media. A certain 1989 film starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal convinced a nation of moviegoers that sex always comes between men and women, making true friendship impossible. "When Harry Met Sally set the potential for male-female friendship back about 25 years," said Michael Monsour, assistant professor of communications at the University of Colorado and author of Women and Men as Friends. Television hasn't helped either. "Almost every time you see a male-female friendship, it winds up turning into romance," Monsour noted. These cultural images are hard to overcome, he said. It's no wonder we expect that men and women are always on the road to romance.</P>
<P>1.Do you believe men and women can be platonic friends? Do you have any very close friends of the opposite gender?<BR>2.Have you ever had a platonic friendship that crossed the line and became romantic?<BR>3.Do you think it is possible to fall in love with someone who first enters your life as a friend?<BR>4.If you are single, do you hope that when you do fall in love, your partner will have started out as your friend?<BR>5.Who do you think is better at keeping romance/sexual attraction out of a platonic relationship, men or women?<BR>6.What do you think is meant by the English saying, “Guys and girls will come and go, but friends last forever?” Do you agree with this saying? Why or why not?<BR>7. Have you ever had a friendship that was lost or broken? Tell your group about it.</P>
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