SSS 2010-12-10
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(十二)月
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute.
'Tis the season when many of us go on a seafood 1 diet: we see food and we eat it. But if you want to avoid packing on the pounds, a new study suggests that you should spend more time thinking about food. Because the more of a thing you imagine eating, the less you'll actually eat.
Common sense suggests that daydream 2 eating is not the best idea. Once you picture a piece of pecan pie, chances are you'll go out and get some. But what if you did more than give the pie or cookie or candy a passing thought? What if you mentally ate your fill?
To find out, scientists had people imagine eating M&Ms. Thirty-three of them. One after another. They asked a second group to imagine an activity that was equally repetitive, but less filling: pumping 33 quarters into a clothes dryer 3. Then they put out a bowl of M&Ms.
Sure enough, people who'd already maxed out on M&Ms in their mind ate fewer than the folks who'd been doing their mental laundry. The results appear in the journal Science.
So when visions of Haagen-Daz dance through your head, don't think twice. Just pull up an imaginary spoon. And don't skimp 4 on the fantasy hot fudge.
Thanks for the minute. For Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin.
- There's an excellent seafood restaurant near here.离这儿不远有家非常不错的海鲜馆。
- Shrimps are a popular type of seafood.小虾是比较普遍的一种海味。
- Boys and girls daydream about what they want to be.孩子们遐想着他们将来要干什么。
- He drifted off into another daydream.他飘飘然又做了一个白日梦。
- He bought a dryer yesterday.他昨天买了一台干燥机。
- There is a washer and a dryer in the basement.地下室里有洗衣机和烘干机。