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If you’re like many people, shortly after lunch your head begins buzzing, your concentration plummets, your eyes droop and the top of your desk begins to look as cozy as a feather mattress. Here are 13 ways to stay awake at work:
如果你像許多人一樣，午飯后不久你的腦袋就開始嗡嗡叫，你的注意力直線下降，你的眼睛低垂，你的辦公桌面開始看起來和一床羽絨床墊一樣舒適。那這里有13種在工作中保持清醒的方法：
1. Head outside and sit in the daylight for 10 minutes. Better still, have your lunch outside and divide your break between eating and a walk. It will help reset your chronological clock, keep down the amount of melatonin (the sleep hormone) your body produces during this circadian dip and give you a valuable boost of beneficial vitamin D, reducing your risk of osteoporosis as well as various cancers.
到外面去，在陽光下坐10分鐘。還要更好的是，在外面吃午飯，把你的休息時間劃分為吃飯和散步。這將有助于重置你的生物鐘，抑制你的身體在這個周期性衰退中產生的褪黑激素（睡眠激素）的數量，并且大大地增強有益的維生素D，減少患骨質疏松癥以及各種癌癥的風險。
2. Choose activating protein not energy-sapping carbs. So a tuna salad without the bread is a better choice than a tuna sandwich. A green salad sprinkled with low-fat cheese, a hardboiled egg and some sliced turkey wins over a pasta salad. The change can really make a difference.
選擇有活力的蛋白質，而不是消耗能量的碳水化合物。所以沒有面包的金槍魚沙拉比起金槍魚三明治是個更好的選擇。撒有低脂奶酪的綠色沙拉、一個煮熟的雞蛋和幾片火雞勝于通心粉沙拉。這種改變真的可以起作用。
3. Enjoy teatime. Get into the routine of a mid-afternoon cup. It’s a good step towards beating the afternoon doldrums thanks to that little bit of a caffeine burst and the few quiet minutes it entails. Keep a selection of exotic flavored teas (preferably caffeinated) in your office and an aesthetically pleasing cup just for tea.
享受喝茶時間。養成下午三點左右喝杯茶的習慣。感謝那一丁點咖啡因的突然增加以及隨之而來的幾分鐘寧靜時間，這是驅走午后無精打采的一個好方法。在辦公室里存放精選的風味奇異的茶（含咖啡因的更好）和一個只用來喝茶的賞心悅目的茶杯。
4. Clean your desk and clear out your email inbox. Both are relatively mindless tasks that don’t require great amounts of concentration or clear thinking, and both will leave you feeling more energized because you’ll have accomplished something visible as well as having reduced energy-sapping clutter.
清理你的辦公桌并清空電子郵件收件箱。兩者都是相對來說不用腦子的任務，不需要大量的注意力及清晰的思考，而且兩者都會使你感到更有精力，因為你不僅完成了一些看得見的事還減少了耗費精力的雜務。
