真颛 -
吃的快,胖的快Eating fast triples chance of getting fat
Don"t gobble down your food. It"ll make you fat if you do. Just eat slowly and modestly and you"ll slash your chances of being overweight by, like, three times.
Blame the fast food industry on the fact that we scarf our meals, says a new Japanese study, and then ban those fast meals on the spot. Here"s why: Researchers found that half of the men and just more than half of the women studied ate until they were full. Just under half the men and more than a third of the women ate quickly. The consequences? Men and women who ate until they were full were twice as likely to be overweight. And those who ate both quickly and to fullness were three times more likely to be heavy.
An interesting fact: Seems humans are hardwired to overconsume energy when it is available. Make that energy fast and cheap, and we"re all over it. And because of this, we"re getting fatter and fatter. We must learn, then, these two tactics: (1) Steer clear of fast food and (2) Slow down.
吃东西时切忌狼吞虎咽，这可能会让你发胖。慢慢地、适量地饮食速度可以让你的发胖几率狂减三倍。
一项日本新调查将责任归咎于包围我们的快餐文化，并立即禁止了现卖的快餐经营点。这就是为什么研究者发现在被调查的人群中有半数的男性和超过半数的女性倾向于吃撑为止。只有少于半数的男性和超过三分之一的女性饮食速度很快。这样的结果说明什么？倾向于吃撑为止的男性和女性超重几率多了一倍，而那些吃的又快又多的人群则有三倍发胖的几率。
这是一个有趣的事实：资源丰富时，人类总是超负荷摄取能源，当能源变得又易得又廉价时，我们就会将之消耗殆尽。正因为如此，我们开始变得越来越胖，我们必须学会以下两点（1）远离快餐（2）不要狼吞虎咽。
肖振 -
Fast Food (212 words)
Fast food, such as hamburgers, fried chicken, is as much a part of modern life as the automobile and the computer. It is rapidly becoming popular al over the world. Nowadays, time is money. More and more people find it difficult to afford time to sit in restaurants enjoying long, leisurely lunches, or at home waiting for a breakfast or a meal to be prepared. So nobody would deny the fact that fast food is a blessing for busy people, as it helps them make more efficient use of time.
On the other hand, there are still those who complain that fast food has little nutritional value. They worry that if people get used to living on fast food, their health will suffer. In addition, the opponents of fast food even worry about the decline in traditional cuisine the fast food industry will bring about. They say that the traditional cuisine will disappear if the trend toward fast food continues.
So far as I am concerned, I would like to take a more balanced position. For one thing, few people eat fast food all the time. For another thing, comparing our traditional food with western fast food, we do realize that our traditional cooking is really very appetizing, though a bit time-consuming.