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Don--Don, we're on the air.
嘿，唐,我們正在直播哦。
Sorry, Yael, just getting in some jumping jacks before work.
抱歉,雅艾爾, 只是在工作之前做些跳躍運動。
I don't want to be one of the quarter million Americans who die prematurely each year from conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and obesity.
我可不想成為身患糖尿病、心臟病、肥胖癥每年過早死的那25萬名美國人其中之一。
Oh brother, another segment about the benefits of exercise.
哦，兄弟,運動的好處還有另一個原因。
What's the big deal?
還有什么大不了的呢?
Isn't there medicine that takes care of these diseases?
藥物不能治療這些疾病嗎?
Well, medication is great for stabilizing existing conditions,
嗯,藥物有利于穩定現有的身體狀況,
but it doesn't solve the underlying problems-and everybody knows that exercising is good for you.
但并不能解決根本問題,而且每個人都知道鍛煉有好處。
Yes, but now scientists suggest that exercise is even more than that.
是的,但是現在科學家們表明運動還有更廣泛的益處。
The theory is that humans are genetically programmed by evolution to be physically active.
該理論認為人類的身體活動決定自身的基因進化。
After all, our ancestors spent millions of years hunting and gathering and only the last few thousand years as cultivators.
畢竟,我們的祖先花了數百萬年進行狩獵和采摘,而只有過去的幾千年才作為莊稼人。
So cushy office jobs aren't natural?
那輕松的辦公室工作不自然嗎?
Right. So today, when we think of the average person, we think of someone who doesn't exercise.
是這樣的。所以今天,當我們想到一般人,我們認為這是一個不運動的人。
And what these scientists are saying is that the biological norm is a person who is very active.
而這些科學家們想表明的是生理正常的人是非常有活力的人。
I'm not sure I see your point.
我不太我明白你的意思。
So instead of saying that exercising decreases your risk for certain health problems, it's more correct to say that not exercising increases your risk for those problems.
與其說鍛煉會降低你患上特定疾病的風險，不如更準確的說不鍛煉會增加患病的風險。
Your body expects you to exercise, and when you don't, your body is more likely to break down.
你的身體期望自身去鍛煉，如果不鍛煉身體會垮掉。
So when you do nothing, you're actually making things worse.
所以當你什么也不做的時候，其實是在讓事情變得更糟。
