主题：[每日翻译之星] 第五周 第3期 (20080402)合理饮食 走向健康(参考答案)

合理饮食 走向健康

Dieting Your Way to Health

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几乎每个人在一生的某个时刻都会考虑节食，无论男女老少，他们都有一个共同的目标---减轻体重，越快越好。

Almost everyone considers going on a diet sometime in his or her life. All, regardless of sex and age, have something in common---losing weight and losing it fast.

这个一致的目标看来无可厚非，然而，这些人也许并未意识到，节食不当却弊大于利。

Though their common aim may seem basically good, they probably do not realize that misguided dieting can do more harm than good to their health.

节食过分严格就会破坏体内化学物质的平衡，因为一旦食物供应骤然减少，身体则产生仿佛遭受攻击的感觉，于是便竭力节省能量来保护自己。

Going on too strict a diet can destroy the balance of chemicals in the human body. This happens because when the body is suddenly given much less food than usual, it feels as though it is being attacked and tries hard to protect itself by saving energy.

为达到这一目的，身体便减缓新陈代谢，减缓从摄入食物到能量的转化过程。

It does this by slowing down metabolism, the process by which the food we eat is converted into energy.

随着能量供给的减缓，节食者渐渐四肢乏力无比。很快他们对周围事物不感兴趣，同时，抗病能力下降，种种疾病接踵而至。

As energy is supplied to the body at a slower and slower rate, dieters gradually become so weak that they can do nothing. They soon lose interest in everything going on about them, and their resistance to illness becomes so low that they are easily attacked by one illness after another.

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