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fad  流行

fad 流行

September 1, 2016  =========
☆ fad 流行
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Sorry, sorry, sorry! I do not know what happened! Suddenly it is already 10pm on September 3rd and I haven’t sent out any Eigo Techo mails for September yet. As I said, I don’t know what happened, but I was so busy that I just totally forget to write to you! Sorry!!
So, let’s put September 1st, 2nd, and 3rd all together in this email, and get back on track in the daily emails tomorrow, OK?
September 1 – fad 流行
September 2 – nutrition栄養
September 3 – body image ボディーイメージ
This month’s topic is “Staying in Shape”. What does staying in shape mean to you?
Do you get caught up in the fitness fads that come up all the time? I don’t watch much TV, so I don’t get to see TV commercials advertising the latest “exercise gadget” but I do see a lot of ads on the Internet – many of them are about nutrition, for example, there are many different versions of this ad: “Five foods you should never eat if you want to lose weight.” Or, this one that says, “Dr. Oz says this one thing is more important than exercise.” When I clicked on the link, it was just a diet pill. A fad, and nothing healthy or good for you! Certainly not good nutrition!
How about “gluten free”? Is this a fad in Japan? It started as a fad here in Australia, but really now, it’s almost like a common thing for people to say they don’t eat gluten anymore.
And our third word, body image. This word has become more and more common in daily English and in fashion and health news. In Australia, people talk about body image a lot. Our “body image” is the way we feel about our own body. A lot of young people, girls and women in particular, compare their own body with the women that they see in magazines and on advertisements. This often leads to a negative body image, because the advertisement makes the woman look “perfect” and this is pretty impossible for the average person. In France and Israel, there are new laws that say that the advertisement must state if it has been altered using Photoshop or some other software. What do you think of this idea?
This is an interesting article on the topic of Photoshop and body image. It’s long – but even if you don’t want to read it, there are some interesting pictures showing Photoshop and how images can be changed.
https://www.pixelz.com/blog/photoshop-models-laws/
Anyway, that is all for today! Sorry for the long email and for missing the first few days! I’ll be back on track tomorrow. 🙂
Bye,
Chris