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Sometimes, after a long, hard day, all you want is a bacon cheeseburger, a pile of fries and maybe a desert doughnut.
有時漫長而辛苦的一天后,你只是想來個熏肉芝士漢堡,一堆薯條，要是再有份甜點甜甜圈就更好了。
After all, the stress that seems to be eating you up can be eased by what you eat up, right?
畢竟,似乎大快朵頤可以將食物連同你的壓力一起吞下去,對嗎?
Sadly, it's time to burst the bubble in your comfort food milkshake.
可悲的是,這種安慰的奶昔食物緩解壓力的方式似乎要被顛覆。
Researchers asked women about things that had recently stressed them out.
研究人員要求參加測試的女性講出最近感到壓力的事情。
The women were then given a fat-and calorie-packed meal of eggs, turkey sausage and biscuits and gravy.
隨后這些女性被給予富含脂肪和卡路里的雞蛋,火雞香腸，餅干及肉湯的餐食。
The researchers then measured the womens' metabolism, blood sugar, cholesterol, insulin and stress hormones.
然后研究人員檢測了餐后女性們的代謝、血糖、膽固醇、胰島素及應激激素。
Turns out that the most stressed women had higher levels of insulin.
結果表明,壓力最大的女性胰島素的數值更高。
Which slows down metabolism and causes the body to store fat.
這會減緩新陳代謝,使身體儲存脂肪。
And that fat, if not burned off, accumulates in the body.
脂肪如果不燃燒就會在體內積累。
The women who had reported feeling stressed or depressed in the day before eating the meal burned 104 fewer calories during the seven hours following the meal than women who felt more mellow.
研究顯示相比感覺更成熟的女人，前一天感覺緊張或抑郁的女性進食這頓食物后的7個小時只消耗104大卡更少的熱量。
The study is in the journal Biological Psychiatry.
這項研究已經在《生物精神病學》雜志上發表。
If eating high-calorie comfort food to alleviate stress becomes habitual, the result could be an average weight gain of 11 pounds per year.
如果吃高熱量食物已經成為緩解壓力的習慣,結果可能是每年平均增加11磅的體重。
Which brings its own stress—like spending money on new clothes.
這會給自己帶來壓力，就像花錢買新衣服一樣。
