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Healthy At 100 Vocabulary Text

Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Healthy at 100." Now, I know

the vocabulary lesson is probably the least exciting and interesting lesson of the

collection. And that's okay. In fact, it's really my least favorite as well. l'd say listen to it

one or two times, maybe the first and second day, and after that you don't need to listen

to it every single day. The most important lessons are, y'know, the main, the main

lesson, the main audio and the mini-story and the POV. Those are the most important

but, y'know, listen to the vocabulary lesson a few times the first couple days of the

week. Alright, let's get started with the vocabulary lesson for Healthy at 100. There is

actually a good amount of vocabulary in this one.

Our first word is correlation, so he talks about the correlation between cancer and

animal food. Cancer and animal food, there's a correlation between the two.

Correlation means connection or association. It means the two go together. They

happen at the same time. If you're eating a lot of animal food then you're going to have

more chance of cancer. They're connected. There's a connection there. So that's

called a correlation, correlation. Now, it does have a little bit more specific, scientific

meaning if you're talking about research but you'll learn that in a research class or a

statistics class. The general meaning is a connection, an association between two

things, correlation. So correlation, there's a correlation between cancer, high cancer

rates, and eating animal food.

Next we have the word consumption. There's a correlation between cancer and animal

food consumption. So here, consumption just means eating. Consumption, eating,

very simple. Animal food consumption, animal food eating. When you consume, it's the

verb is consume, to consume means to eat or to use up. Use it all. So consumption is

the noun. It just means eating. Very simple.

Little bit later we have the word colon. There is a study of colon cancer. Women who

ate a lot of meat had high rates of colon cancer. So colon is part of your body, it's your

gut. It's your bowel. It's your lower intestine, right? So your food goes in. It goes down

your throat into your stomach. From your stomach it goes into your upper intestine...do

da do da do...and then finally into your lower intestine. Into your colon, and then it

comes out your body again. So colon is your bowel, your gut, your lower intestine.

Next we have the word dairy. Dairy products, dairy food. Dairy just means milk or

cheese. It's something that comes from milk or cheese. Comes from an animal, you

don't kill it. It's not meat. You know, meat is the muscle of the animal. But dairy

products, it usually comes from the milk of the animal. So milk and cheese are the most

common dairy products. Milk and cheese, dairy, dairy products. So the more dairy

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Healthy At 100 Point-of-View Text

Hello, this is AJ. Let's get started with the POV, point of view mini-story for “Healthy at

100." Same story, different points of view.

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Since he was 16 Joe has wanted to be a movie star.

Since when?

Since he was 16, since he was 16 Joe has wanted to be a movie star.

Who has wanted to be a movie star? Bill?

Not Bill, Joe. Joe has wanted to be a movie star.

Since when?

Since he was 16, since he was 16 Joe has wanted to be a movie star. Starting when he

was 16 and continuing.

What has he wanted since he was 16?

To be a movie star, he has wanted to be a movie star since he was 16.

Has he wanted to be a music rock star since he was 16?

No, he hasn't wanted to be a rock star. He has wanted to be a movie star.

What kind of star has he wanted to be?

He has wanted to be a movie star.

Has he wanted to be a movie star a little or a lot?

Well, he has wanted to be a movie star a lot, really, really, really wanted to be a movie

star. He has wanted to be a movie star so much, a lot, since he was 16 years old. And

now he's 38.

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Healthy At 100 Mini-Story Text

Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the mini-story for "Healthy at 100." Let's get started.

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There was a guy named Joe. Joe wanted to be a famous movie star.

Was he a famous movie star?

No, he wasn't a movie star. He wanted to be a movie star.

What did Joe want to be?

He wanted to be a movie star.

Did he want to be a TV star?

No, no, no, no, no, no. He didn't want to be a TV star.

What kind of star did he want to be?

A movie star, Joe wanted to be a movie star.

So, first he decided to get thin. He needed a good body. He stopped eating dairy

products.

What kind of products did he stop eating?

Well, dairy products, he stopped eating dairy products.

Did he stop eating cheese?

Yes, he stopped eating cheese.

Did he stop drinking milk?

Yes, he stopped drinking milk. He stopped eating and drinking dairy products.

Who stopped eating and drinking dairy products?

Healthy At 100 Main Text

Hello, this is AJ again. Welcome to our next lesson. This one is called “Healthy at 100."

Healthy at 100 is the name of a book by John Robbins. It's a fantastic book, very

interesting and the topic of this book is exactly what the title says. The topic of this book

is how to be a healthy person at the age of 100, which seems kind of amazing to most

people. Can you be healthy? Can you be strong? Can you have energy when you're

100 years old? And the answer is absolutely yes. Now how did John Robbins write this

book? It's very interesting. WelI, what he did, personally and then with his research

assistants, he studied cultures, places in the world where large numbers of people live

to be very old. But not only just live to be old, because, y'know, if you live to be old but

you're weak, that's not very fun.

So he studied places that had a lot of very old people who were also very strong, very

energetic, very healthy, very happy. There's a big difference if you're 90 years old and

you're in a nursing home and you're weak and sick, and ugh. Thať's a terrible life. But if

you're 90 years old and you're out running and you feel great, well that's fantastic. And

there are cultures like this and there are also a lot of individual people like this. And

when I say a lot, I don't mean a lot by percentage. It's a small percent of the human

population. But still there are thousands of these kind of people, I don't know, maybe

hundreds of thousands, maybe millions. I'm not sure what the exact number is. But

you can find these people. You can find specific cultures where there are a lot of them.

And then you can find individuals.

And so John Robbins was very curious about this and he wanted to know why. Why,

why do some people live strong, long, healthy, active lives for a very, very long time?

Why are some people so strong when they're older and live so much longer? And then

other people, y'know, they're 60 years old, they're already tired and sick. Whať's the

difference is what he wanted to know. And so he studied different groups. One of the

groups were people, traditional people, on the island of Okinawa, Japan.

So we're not talking, Okinawa now has a lot of modern culture, a lot of American

influence. And those people do not live so long. And they're not so healthy. But the

kind of people who live on Okinawa in a traditional way, the way they always have for a

very long time, those people are very special. They live very long lives and they're very

strong and healthy. They're still working when they're 80 or 90 years old, working like

on farms, like hard, physical work.

He studied another group of people in Pakistan, same thing. They lived to be 90, 100,

over 100, and the whole time they're working, doing heavy, hard, physical work. It's

pretty amazing. And then another thing they did is they studied individual people.

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Unlimited Power Vocabulary

Hello this is AJ again. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Unlimited Power." Let's

start right away.

Our first phrase is roll of the dice, roll of the dice. Now the sentence in the article says:

The difference between people who produce positive results and those who do not is

not some sort of roll of the dice.

Okay, roll of the dice means a random event, random event. So a roll of the dice is a

random event. It's kind of a random chance, random chance, random event. So he's

saying it's not a roll of the dice, it's not random. In other words, it's not chance that one

person is really excellent and another person is not. It's not luck. It's not luck, there are

reasons, there are very consistent reasons that one person is very excellent all the time

and another person is not. Okay, so roll of the dice kind of is this idea of luck or

randomness or a random event. Roll of the dice. He's saying it's not a roll of the dice,

it's not chance, it's not luck, it's something else.

Okay, another phrase in this article, the phrase within the reach of all of us.

Excellence is within the reach of all of us.

Within the reach of, within the reach of. Within the reach of means near, or easy to get

or possible to get. Excellence is within the reach of all of us means excellence is near

all of us. Excellence is easy to get for all of us. Excellence is possible to get for all of

us. Okay, so again, within the reach of means something that's possible to get. We can

reach it, we can get it, we can grab it, we can have it. Possible to get, near. So it's

within the reach of.

Our next word is unleash.

Unleash the magic within us all.

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Unlimited Power_POV

Welcome to the POV stories for "Unlimited Power." And of course, POV means point of

view. Same story about Marco, the hot, sexy man. This time we're going to start with

"Since 1979."

Since 1979 Marco has wanted a hot, sexy body. Since 1979 March has wanted a

perfect body. But, he didn't have one. Unfortunately, he was a little bit fat, a little

bit weak. Not terrible, but he didn't have a perfect, sexy body. So since 1979 he

has wanted a perfect body. His aspiration was to have a perfect body.

What was his aspiration?

His aspiration, his hope, was to have a perfect body.

Since when has he wanted a perfect body?

Since 1979, since 1979 he has wanted a perfect body.

Who has wanted a perfect body since 1979?

Well, Marco, of course. Marco has wanted a perfect body since 1979.

So in 1980 did he want a perfect body?

Yes.

In 1983 did he want a perfect body?

Yes.

In 1985 did he want a perfect body?

Yes.

Unlimited Mini-Story Text

Unlimited Power Mini-Story

Hello this is AJ. Welcome to the mini-story for "Unlimited Power." Now get some power

in your body right now. Get some passion in your body. Start with your body, look up

not down. Get your chest up. Get your shoulders back. Stand tall, if you're sitting, sit

tall. Big deep breaths. And then if you can, start moving and finally, big smile on your

face. I'm smiling right now. You should be, too. Alright, now we've got some energy in

our bodies. I'm energized, you're energized. Let's start the mini-story for "Unlimited

Power."

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There was a guy named Marco.

What was his name?

Marco. There was a guy named Marco.

Was he a girl or was he a guy?

He was a guy, of course. He was a guy. His name was Marco.

And Marco did something foolish.

Did he do something intelligent or did he do something foolish?

Well, he did something foolish.

He bet all his money in the stock market.

Oh no, what did he do?

He bet his money in the stock market.

How much of his money did he bet in or on the stock market?

Unlimited Main Text

Okay, hello, it's me again, AJ, and we're back for another lesson. This lesson is called

"Unlimited Power." Great title and of course it comes from the book by Tony Robbins

who is another one of my favorite teachers. In fact, I really love Tony. I just got back

from a seminar of his. He is fantastic and I highly recommend his books, his tapes, his

CDs, his seminars...anything you can get from Tony Robbins...fantastic!

And we're going to again do a little excerpt, a little section from one of his books and

this section talks about the number one trait that determines success and happiness in

Tony Robbins' opinion, and I agree with him. And that number one trait, that one factor,

that one thing that really creates success and powers and gives energy to everything

else is passion. So this is a little section about passion from Tony Robbins' book,

Unlimited Power. So I am just going to go ahead and read that section and then I will|

talk about it more. So here we go.

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Success is not an accident. The difference between people who produce positive

results and those who do not is not some sort of random roll of the dice. There are

consistent logical patterns of action, specific pathways to excellence that are within the

reach of us all. We can unleash the magic within us. We simply must learn how to turn

on and use our minds and bodies in the most powerful and advantageous ways. Have

you ever wondered what a Steven Spielberg or a Bruce Springsteen might have in

common? What do John F. Kennedy and a Martin Luther King, Jr. share that caused

them to affect so many people in such a deep and emotional way? They have been

able to get themselves to consistently take effective actions toward the accomplishment

of their dreams. But what is it that got them to continue day after day, to put everything

they've got into everything they do?

There are of course many factors however I believe there are fundamental character

traits that they have cultivated within themselves. Characteristics that give them the fire

to do whatever it takes to succeed. These are the traits that can insure your success as

well. Trait number one: Passion. All of these people have discovered a reason, a

consuming, energizing, almost obsessive purpose that drives them to do, to grow and to

be more. It gives them the fuel that powers their success and causes them to tap their

true potential.

Reading Power Vocabulary Text

Hello, this is AJ again. Big smile...deep breath. Move that body, let's start the

vocabulary lesson for "The Power of Reading."

Okay, one of the words we had in there was competence. Now, Dr. Krashen said

people develop competence when they read. They develop the competence they need

to move from the beginning level to a level where they can use the language for more

difficult purposes. Competence, competence. Competence means skill or ability. So

when you read you develop more advanced skill in English. You develop more

advanced competence in English. So competence means skill or ability.

And then we have the word demanding, right? He says you develop the competence

for more demanding purposes. More demanding purposes, more demanding actions.

More demanding challenges. Demanding just means difficult. Difficult. So in other

words you get better and better. You can do more difficult things with the language. So

in the beginning maybe you have very simple, low level English or maybe intermediate

level English. Probably most of you are intermediate level. If you read my website and

bought my lessons you are definitely intermediate level. So if you're intermediate level

but you want to use English for more demanding purposes, more difficult purposes.

Maybe now you can talk a little bit but you can't go to a high level business meeting and

use English very well. That's a demanding purpose. It's a more difficult situation. It's a

more demanding situation. So again, demanding has this idea of difficult, something

that's difficult.

Alright, then we also had the word literacy. Literacy, that people develop literacy by

reading. Surprise, surprise, that seems pretty logical. Literacy means the ability to read

well. So again, literacy is just the skill, the competence, the ability to read well. It has

this idea of proficiency or ability. It means you're good at something. Now, usually it

means good at reading. We do sometimes use it in a more general way, where you

could say "I have good computer literacy," for example. Now, we're not talking about

reading. We're just saying computer ability. Basic competence with a computer, we

would say computer literacy. It means I understand computers, I can use computers.

I'm not an expert but, y'know, I'm good enough. But more specifically, and in this article

especially, literacy just means the ability to read well.

Okay, we had another little phrase, well read. In the sentence it said "We rarely find well

read people who have serious problems with grammar." Okay, so well read means, it

just means that you have read a lot of books. A well read person is someone who has

read a lot. That means you have read a lot. You know a lot about books. Well not

about books, it means you actually have read books. You've read a lot of books. So

Reading Power Point-of-View Text

Okay, welcome to the POV, that's point of view, lesson for “The Power of Reading."

Okay, and I'm going to tell the same story about Filbert the monkey. We're going to

have tow points of view. One is going to start with "Since 2002..." and the other one will

be in the future. So let's start with the first one. You ready? You feel good? You

smiling? Standing tall, shoulders back! Deep breath, let's do it.

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Since 2002, since the year 2002, Filbert has enjoyed shooting mosquitoes with his

gun. He has liked to shoot mosquitoes with his gun, since 2002.

In 2001 did Filbert enjoy shooting mosquitoes?

No, no he didn't. Not in 2001. In 2001 and before he never shot mosquitoes, but since

2002 he has liked to shoot mosquitoes with his gun. He has loved it, in fact. Since

2002 Filbert the monkey has loved to shoot mosquitoes with his gun. From 2002 right

up until almost now, during that whole time. So since 2002 he has enjoyed shooting

mosquitoes.

And since 2002 he has practiced every day. In fact, in the morning, in the

afternoon, in the evening and at night, he has practiced shooting mosquitoes

every day since 2002. Since 2003 he has had total competence with his rifle, with

his big long gun.

Since when?

Since 2003 he has had total competence. He has had total competence with his rifle.

Since 2003 he has had what?

Since 2003 he has had total competence with his rifle.

Now of course, shooting mosquitoes is a very demanding, tough thing to do. It's

very difficult. So he has practiced constantly shooting mosquitoes with his rifle.

Now Filbert the monkey has also been a very well read monkey for many years.

For many years he has read philosophy books, every day reading about

philosophy and shooting his gun at the same time, pow, pow, pow, read, pow,

pow, pow, read. He has been a very well read monkey. Probably since 2001,

since 2001 he has been a very well read monkey. Something happened recently.