科学美国人60秒 SSS 2014-08-27
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：2014年Scientific American(八)月
英语课
Sometimes after a long hard day, all you want is a bacon cheeseburger, a pile fries and may be a dessert donut. After all, the stress that seems to be eating you up can be eased by what you eat up, right? Sadly, it is time to burst the bubble in your comfort food milkshake.
Researchers asked women about things that had recently stressed them out. The women were then given a fat in calorie packed meal of eggs, turkey sausage and biscuits in gravy 1. The researchers then measure the women's metabolism 2, blood sugar, cholesterol 3, insulin and stress hormones 4. Turns out that most stressed women had higher levels of insulin, which slows down metabolism and causes the body to store fat, and that fat, if not burned off, accumulates in the body. The women who had reported feeling stressed or depressed 5 in the day before eating the meal, burned a hundred and four fewer calories during the seven days following the meal than women who felt more mellow 6. The study is in the journal Biological Psychiatry 7.
If eating high calorie comfort foods will alleviate 8 stress becomes a big tool, the result could be in average weight gain of eleven pounds per year, which bring us own stress-less spending money on new clothes.
1 gravy
n.肉汁；轻易得来的钱，外快
- You have spilled gravy on the tablecloth.你把肉汁泼到台布上了。
- The meat was swimming in gravy.肉泡在浓汁之中。
2 metabolism
n.新陈代谢
- After years of dieting,Carol's metabolism was completely out of whack.经过数年的节食，卡罗尔的新陈代谢完全紊乱了。
- All living matter undergoes a process of metabolism.生物都有新陈代谢。
3 cholesterol
n.（U）胆固醇
- There is cholesterol in the cell of body.人体细胞里有胆固醇。
- They are determining the serum-protein and cholesterol levels.他们正在测定血清蛋白和胆固醇的浓度。
4 hormones
adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的
- When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
- His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
5 mellow
adj.柔和的；熟透的；v.变柔和；(使)成熟
- These apples are mellow at this time of year.每年这时节，苹果就熟透了。
- The colours become mellow as the sun went down.当太阳落山时，色彩变得柔和了。
6 psychiatry
n.精神病学，精神病疗法
- The study appeared in the Amercian science Journal of Psychiatry.这个研究发表在美国精神病学的杂志上。
- A physician is someone who specializes in psychiatry.精神病专家是专门从事精神病治疗的人。