When he was a teenager, Hunter Adams was very unhappy, and he spent many years in the 1960s and 1970s hospital for people with mental (精神的) health problems.
When he left hospital, Adams decided to become a doctor, so he went to Medical School in Virginia, USA. But when he was there he did things in a different way. For example, he didn't like the doctor's white coats. He preferred to wear shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients, and he tried to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didn't like Adams very much because he was too different.
But Adams believed that people in hospital need more than medicine. He saw unhappy and lonely people, and he tried to help them as patients, but as people too. He spent a lot of time with children in the hospital, and often put a special red nose on his face to look like a clown and to make the children laugh.
When he finished medical school and became a doctor, Adams opened his own hospital, called "the Gesundheit Institute", together with some other doctors. They wanted it to be a place in a different way of working with sick people.
Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s, and in 1998, Universal Pictures made a film about his life. It was very successful. In the film (called Patch Adams), Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said, "Hunter is a really warm person, who believes that patients need a doctor who's friend. I enjoyed playing him."
A recent study from a team of South Korean researchers suggests that eating alone often may lead to poor eating habits and poor food choices. Specifically, the study found that men who ate alone more than twice a week had a greater risk of developing high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes.
For children, eating with their families is not only about preventing bad outcomes (结果) —it is also about developing good ones.
In 2014, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) looked at data from nearly three-quarters of the world's countries. Among its findings was the fact that students who shared a main meal with their families were less likely to skip school. Children who eat a main meal with their families are also less likely to abuse drugs and alcohol (吸毒酗酒).
In the report, titled "The Importance of Family Dinners (VIII)", researchers say that "teens who have frequent family dinners are more likely to say their parents know a lot about what's going on in their lives". They also claim that when teens say they feel closer to their parents, they are less likely to use drugs and alcohol.
Another study from the University of Montreal found that children who ate with their families experience long —term physical and mental health benefits (好处). These children were physically in better shape and drank fewer sugary soft drinks. These children also seemed to have better social skills and they were less aggressive (好斗的).
Professor Linda Pagani says that mealtimes shared with parents "likely provide young children with first-hand social interactions, discussions of social issues (事件) and day-to-day concerns". She adds that they may likely help the child have better communication skills with others.
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A. They exercise. B. Happiness makes you creative. C. We don't have time to look around. D. Instead, they focus on meaningful relationships. E. When you sleep, your brain restarts and cleans itself. |
No one wakes up feeling happy every day. Very happy people are not different. They never stop trying to be happy. Here are some of the habits of happy people.
◆They slow down.
Sometimes we think too much. Happy people know how to enjoy the taste of their meal, enjoy the world's colors, even just step outside to enjoy fresh air.
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Getting your body moving for as little as 10minutes can make you happy. Happy people exercise regularly and follow through on it because they know it will help them get in good mood (情绪) and stay in good mood.
◆They spend money on other people.
Research shows that spending money on others makes you much happier than spending it on yourself. This is especially true of small things that show effort, such as going out of your way to buy your friend a book that you know he or she will like.
◆They get enough sleep.
Your energy, attention and memory all go down when you don't sleep well. Happy people make sleep a first thing of all.
◆They have deep conversations.
Happy people know that happiness and depth go hand-in-hand. They avoid saying mean things about people. They talk with others on a deeper level, because they know doing it feels good and is an interesting way to learn.
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Tips for being a super organized student Posted 2 hours ago by Amy I have always admired students who hand in their homework on time and never 1 to do it. Me, on the other hand …OK, I'm not good enough. I'm 2 at getting myself organized (有条理的)! But lately I've started keeping a small study 3. I write down 4 I need to do and when it needs to be done by. Then I write a reminder (提醒单) a few days before the date just in case. It's helping. So 5 are your tips for getting organized? Post a comment below. I'm hoping we can share tips to teach us better study skills. |
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Comments Hana Good question, Amy. I 6 spend about five minutes at the end of the day 7 the desktop on my computer. I make a copy of important documents I delete things I don't need any more and put everything useful into the 8 folder (文件夹). The most important thing is to start studying a few weeks before the 9 and not leave it 10 the night before! That's just common sense, I think. Gloria Hi, Amy. My tip is to have a big noticeboard… |
She used to sleep on the sidewalk of the Fifth Street Post Office. I could smell her before I came close. She (wear) dirty clothes and her mouth was nearly toothless. If she was not asleep, she talked to (she). What a poor old lady!
One Thanksgiving, we had lots of food (leave) over. I thought about the old lady. She might be still hungry. So I packed the food up and rode over to the Fifth Street. It was a cold night. There was hardly anyone out. But I knew she would stay at the same place and I would find her (easy). There she was, sitting against a tree near the post office. She (dress) as she always was. I went to her and said, "I've brought you some food. Would you like some turkey and apple pie?"
However, the old woman didn't seem to be very (excite) about this. She looked at me and said, "Oh, thank you very much, but someone (give) me food earlier and I'm quite full now. Why don't you take it to someone else who (need) it?"
Her manners were gracious(亲切的). I was the person who didn't know what (say). An old lady whose life was (bad) than most of us still thought others. Why don't more of us do that?
The sun was falling behind the hills. Andrea was driving back home to Brockboune. Then she saw an old lady, standing by the toad, with a sign saying "Brockboune" in her hand.
Andrea stopped the car. When the old lady got in, Andrea could see that she was not that little. She was in a long dress and had a hat pulled down low over her eyes. She put her big brown shopping bag down onto the floor.
"Do you live in Brockboune?" asked Andrea. "No, dear," answered the old lady in a low voice, "I'm just going to visit a friend, but my car won't start, so I decided to hitchhike."
Something in the way the lady spoke made Andrea uneasy, Andrea secretly studied the half-covered face, the shapeless body, the arms with their thick black hairs… Thick black hairs? Andrea's blood froze. This wasn't a woman. It was a man!
Her heart was beating wildly and her mind raced. Then suddenly, an idea came up to her. She stopped the car in a sudden. "My God!" she shouted, "A child! Did you see the child? I think I hit her!" "I didn't see anything", the "old lady" said, "I don't think you hit anything." "I'm sure it was a child!" shouted Andrea. "Could you just get out and have a look?" The "old lady" slowly opened the car door, leaving her bag inside. As soon as "she" was out of the car, Andrea drove away as soon as possible.
Several minutes later, Andrea thought about the "old lady's" bag and opened it carefully. There was only one thing in it—a shining knife.
