Unit 7 Show a little restraint.

第７節　克制一下食欲

You don't have to go on a full-fledged diet to change your eating habits.Some restraint-eating a little of this,skipping a little of that-can help you cut back on the calories.

你不需要采行全套的節食方式來改變你的飲食習慣。些許的自我克制一比如這個吃一點，那個少吃一點－－可以幫助你減少卡路里的攝取。

Researchers at the University of Minnesota studied nearly 100 famale college students,Some were overweight and on a diet.Others were neither overweight nor dieting,but they had scored high on a psychological test that measured their ability to stop eating when they wante to.

明尼蘇達大學的研究人員調查了將近一百位女大學生。其中有些人因過重正在節食。有些人則既沒有過重的問題，也沒有在節食，但在測量她們是否能隨心所欲停止進食的心理測驗中，她們都獲得了很高的分數。

They were all monitored during lunch to see how many calories they consumed.Ironically,the women who thought they were dieting ended up eating more calories than the non-dieters who showed restraint.

她們中午進餐時都接受了攝影監控，以便觀察她們攝取了多少卡路里。出乎意料的是，那些自認為在節食的女生所吸收的卡路里結果卻比有自制能力的非節食者更多。

A little restraint also helps after you've lost weight.Self-restrained people regained fewer pounds after successfully losing weight,says another team of researchers.They asked a group of 98 men and 207 women to complete a Restrained Eating Questionnaire at the beginning of their diet.

在你減輕體重后，些許的克制力還是對你有益的。另一研究小組表示，能克制的人在減輕體重成功之后回胖的體重比較少。他們要求九十八位男士與兩百零七位女士節食之前先填寫一份“飲食自制問卷”。

Two-and-a-half years later.researchers retested them and found that nearly 75 percent of those who' had scored high in restraint the first time around still did，while 25 percent did not. Those whose restraint scores remained high had regained less weight than those whose restraint had dropped.

兩年半后，研究人員再對他們進行測試后發現，那些一開始在自制力方面拿高分的人中，有百分之七于五的人在第二次測試中依然獲得高分，只有百分之二十五的人沒有獲得高分。那些自制分數維持高分的人回胖的體重比那些自制力下跌的人還少。

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