高级听力 Unit 11 Part 2

本篇主要讨论在英国和土耳其两国的主要疾病，以及人们如何应对这些疾病。

Talking about Illnesses

M: Yes, talking about illnesses, I’m quite surprised to see that in the UK, illnesses are very difficult from those in Turkey, to some extent. For instance, in the UK people seem to suffer from heart disease and stress, quite a lot, whereas in Turkey they seem to suffer from bowel problems more often than in Britain by the sound of it; the reason for it I think is diet, is connected with diet; in the way people eat, in Turkey they tend to eat hot, spicy food, peppery things, very hot things; which I can’t take myself , but the tendency is to eat hot food, and it seems to result in that.

If you look at the price of life in Turkey and in Britain you’d find that this explain quite a bit of the differences in terms of illnesses. In Turkey, people, I think lead a much slower pace, because life is less hectic, less industrial for a start, and, so they don’t tend to get this type of illnesses that are related to stress, such as heart attacks.

F: What else do you get here? You get quite a bit of cancer.

M: Cancer? Well, cancer exists there as well; but I think it’s more frequent Britain than it is there. The reason for it I think is mainly to do with pollution, the levels of pollution that Britain has. It goes again with industry and, of course, stress. Turkey is slightly developed in the North, and that’s where we record most cancers; whereas the South is pretty healthy. So there’s that kind of illness that is recorded there, but not very frequent; other types of illnesses that people suffer from, especially young children here is asthma; there’s a lot of asthma.

When it comes to other types of illnesses, like psychological disturbances and psychiatric related problem, it appears to me that in Britain people are more mad than in Turkey.

F: Really?

M: It seems to be so; in the sense that less people go to the psychiatrist in Turkey than here. Is it a fashion? Is it a true reflection of a state of society? I’m not sure.

F: Are there more psychiatrists here?

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