四六级口语考试话题
1 What do you miss most in your home?
2 Which one do you prefer, on-line education or traditional education? 3 What do you think are the characteristics of a good teacher?
4 Every one has some goals, describe one of your goals.
5 Do you agree or disagree: people should always tell the truth?
6 Who do you admire most? why?
7 Long-term contact and first impression, which do you think can help you best to know a person? why?
8 Which one do you prefer? live alone or with roomates?
9 Describe the most important object to you?
10 Novel, maganize or poem, which one do you prefer?
In Chapter 1, I share with you my vision for the wellness industry.
When I began to write the first edition of The Wellness Revolution
(2002), I thought the existing items in the wellness industryfitness
clubs, vitamins, and the likemight already total a few billion dollars
in U.S. sales. I was very surprised to find that sales in 2002 had
already reached approximately $200 billionthey rose to approximately $500 billion by 2007. Yet still only a small percentage of
the
population know about wellness. Imagine what will happen as more
people understand the potential that wellness can add to the quality
and longevity of their lives!
In Chapter 2, I explain the notion of demand, how it operates in relation
to wellness, and how controlled growth of demand can occur. I
show why the $500 billion in proven demand today is still only the tip
of the iceberg, and why these new products and services represent the
beginning of a new $1 trillion sector of our economy (as opposed to
offshoot products in existing industries like agribusiness or medicine).
In Chapter 3, you learn how our $1.3 trillion existing agribusiness
and food industry targets overweight and obese consumers for ever-
Sickness industry products and services provided reactively to
people with an existing disease, ranging from a common cold to
existing cancerous tumors. These products and services seek to
either
treat the symptoms of a disease or eliminate the disease.
Wellness industry products and services provided proactively
to healthy people (those without an existing disease) to make them
feel even healthier and look better, to slow the effects of aging,
and/or to prevent diseases from developing in the first place.
Why Wellness Is the Next Big Thing 5
increasing consumptioncausing a health crisis in the United
States that finds 65 percent of the population currently overweight and 30 percent clinically obese. These numbers have doubled in the past two decades and have
increased seven percent in the last five years. Other developed nations, especially in the EU, Japan, and Taiwan, are not far behind.Then, in Chapter 4, you learn how this has created one of the greatest business opportunities of our timeeducating consumers and providing healthy food and the necessary vitamins and supplements that are no longer contained in our modern food supply.
In the past, a significant part of the health and sickness industry
was concerned with wellness. At the beginning of the last century,
technological breakthroughs in inoculation and antibiotics allowed
medicine to develop preventive measures for many diseases (smallpox,
typhoid, tuberculosis, polio) that had been the scourge of
humankind for millennia.
That was the past.
Most of the one-sixth of the U.S. adult working population
that work in the healthcare industry today focus on
treating the symptoms of disease rather than on preventing
disease. This is because it is more profitable for medical
companies to research and develop products that
create customers for life.
It is also because the third parties paying for most medical treatments
insurance companies and ultimately employershave less
of a long-term financial stake in the health of their employees. If you
are among this one-sixth of the workforce in the healthcare field,
Chapter 5 examines some of the entrepreneurial opportunities arising
in the wellness industry for medical professionals. Providing wellness
products and services that people will voluntarily purchase with
their own funds works better than providing bureaucratic procedures
to unhappy consumers without choice who are financed by distant
third parties.
In Chapter 6 you learn why our existing employer-based healthcare
insurance system is on the verge of collapse and what you can
do to protect yourself and your family. Despite a rising economy
since the beginning of the 1990s, U.S. personal bankruptcy filings
tripledfrom approximately 750,000 in 1990 to 2,000,000 in
2005with much of the increase resulting from family medical 6 THE NEW WELLNESS REVOLUTION
catastrophes. One million middle and upper-class U.S. families are now forced into bankruptcy every year by the sickness industry. In Chapter 7 you learn how opting out of the existing sicknessbased system (i.e., getting permanent, renewable, wellness-oriented
health insurance today) can save you thousands of dollars a year and pay for the wellness products and services you need to invest in your long-term health and vitality.
The entrepreneurial opportunity to convert households