Benefits of Connecting with Nature for Health and Well-being

PPT Reader s Bank Level 9 Unit 08

29 / p.82 Today, many people live separated from nature. They rarely touch soil or plants. Instead, they spend most of their time indoors with technology. This lifestyle has harmful effects on us. ( ) Our bodies produce a lot of harmful electrons during their metabolic processes. ( ) If they build up, they can eventually cause various diseases. ( ) By earthing, or touching soil, we can transfer the harmful electrons in our body to the earth. ( ) The electrons built up in our bodies are positive ( ). ( ) If they meet negative (-) electrons in the earth, they neutralize each other. Try walking outside barefoot, or spending some time sitting on the soil. If you do this on a regular basis, you can clear your body of harmful electrons and become healthier. Reader s Bank Level 9 * metabolic process ( ) However, there is a good way to prevent harmful electrons from building up.

30 _1 / p.84 Reader s Bank Level 9 For elephants and lions, when males approach their breeding age, they leave their herds. They leave their family group to search for a new living community. The males sometimes migrate alone. Other times they form small, unstable bachelor groups. What s the reason for this behavior? From a biological viewpoint, it is an adaptive behavioral pattern to (A) minimize / maximize inbreeding, which is the mating of animals from the same family: for example, between mother and son or between father and daughter.

30 _2 / p.84 Reader s Bank Level 9 Biologists say that inbreeding is more likely to produce offspring with physical (B) merits / defects. On the other hand, if the animals mate outside of their community, they will have a better chance of producing healthier and stronger offspring. Although males leave their herds at their breeding age, they don t leave family life (C) altogether / partially . Instead, some of them might move off and join another family or move from family to family. * inbreeding

31 _1 / p.86 Reader s Bank Level 9 According to biologists, there are billions of bacteria inside your gut. They play an important role in maintaining your bodily functions and health. They digest food, protect your body against outside harmful microbes, and improve immunity. Recently, biologists found that gut bacteria also affect your diet. Different bacterial species have different tastes; some prefer sugar and meat, and others love fruits and vegetables. The bacteria in your gut were formed while you were in your mother s womb. However, they can change depending on your lifestyle. In other words, your diet forms the bacteria s eating habits. For example, if you re vegetarian, the bacteria also become vegetarian.

31 _2 / p.86 Reader s Bank Level 8 So, the gut bacterial composition of obese people differs from that of slender people. As a result, this will enhance the capacity of the bacteria in your gut. This way, you and your gut bacteria influence each other. At first your bacteria control your diet, but later your diet controls your gut bacteria. * gut ; ,

32 / p.88 Reader s Bank Level 9 One unspoken truth about creativity it isn t about wild talent so much as it is about _______________. To find a few ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don t. It s a pure numbers game. Geniuses don t necessarily have a higher success rate than other creators; they simply do more and they do a range of different things. They have more successes and more failures. That goes for teams and companies too. It s impossible to generate a lot of good ideas without also generating a lot of bad ideas. The thing about creativity is that at the outset, you can t tell which ideas will succeed and which will fail. So the only thing you can do is try to fail faster so that you can move onto the next idea. * at the outset