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1、 2022年职称英语考试综合类课堂笔记一百四十三The best way to reduce your weightYou hear this：“No Wonder you are fatAn you ever do is eat”You feel sad：“I skip my breakfast and supperI run every morning and eveningWhat else can I do?”Basically you can do nothingYour genes，not your life habits，determine your weight and you
2、r body constantly tries to maintain itAlbert Stunkard of the University of Pennsylvania found from experiments that，“80 percent of the Children of two obese parents become obese，as compared with no more than 14 percent of the offspring of two parents of normal weight”How can obese people become norm
3、al or even thin through dieting? Well，dieting can be effectivebut the health costs are tremendousJules Hirsch，a research physician at Rockefeller University, did a study of eight fat peopleThey were given a liquid formula providing 600 calories a day1.After more than 10 weeks，the subjects lost 45kg
4、on averageBut after leaving the hospital，they all regainedThe results were surprising：by metabolic measurement，fat people who lost large amounts of weight seemed like they were starvingThey had psychiatric problems. They dreamed of food or breaking their diet2.They were anxious and depressed；some we
5、re suicidalThey hid food in their roomsResearchers warn that it is possible that weight reduction doesnt result in normal weight，but in an abnormal state resembling that of starved non-obese peopleThin people，however, suffer from the opposite：They have to make a great effort to gain weightEthan Sims
6、，of the University of Vermont，got prisoners to volunteer to gain weightIn four to six months，they ate as much as they couldThey succeeded in increasing their weight by 20 to 25 percent. But months after the study ended，they were back to normal weight and stayed there.This did not mean that people ar
7、e completely without hope in controlling their weightIt means that those who tend to be fat will have to constantly battle their genetic inheritance if they want to significantly lower their weightThe findings also provide evidence for something scientists thought was true-each person has a comforta
8、ble weight range3.The range might be as much as 9kgSomeone might weigh 60-69 kg without too much effort But going above of below the natural weight range is difficult The body resists by feeling hungry or full and changing the metabolism to push the weight back to the range it seeks词汇：obese adj.肥胖的m
9、etabolic adj.新陈代谢的psychiatric adj.精神病的 解释：1. They were given a liquid formula providing 600 calories a day他们被赐予一种流食配方，每天供应600热卡。2. They dreamed of food or breaking their diet他们梦中吃食品，或是不是只吃规定的食品。3. The findings also provide evidence for something scientists thought was true-each person has a comforta
10、ble weight range结论还证明了科学家认为是正确的一点，即每个人的体重有一个适当的幅度。 练习：1. What determines your weight?A)Your working mannerB)Your eating habitC)Your life styleD)Your genes 2.What did Jules Hirsch do in his study?A)He let the eight fat people skip supperB)He let the eight fat people skip breakfastC)He let the eight f
11、at people run every mornin8 and eveningD)He gave the eight fat people a liquid formula providing 600 calories a day 3.What happened to the eight fat people after they left the hospital?A)They went madB)They killed themselvesC)They were back to normal weightD)They attempted suicide 4.What did Ethan S
12、ims make his subjects do?A)Battle their genetic inheritanceB)Increase their weightC)Stay at homeD)Lower their weight 5. What did scientists think was true?A)Each person has a fixed weight rangeB)Each person has a weight range of 9 kgC)Each person wants to control his weightD)Each person wants to eat to his hearts content
