雅思课外阅读--不吃早餐也健康 1

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I don’t eat breakfast. It’s not that I dislike what’s offered.Given the choice of breakfast food or lunch food, I’d almost always choose eggs or waffles. It’s just that I’m not hungry at 7:30 a.m., when I leave for work.

我不吃早餐。这并非因为食物不合胃口。如果让我选，不论早餐还是晚餐，我几乎一定会吃鸡蛋或者华夫饼。问题是，早上7点半出门上班时，我根本就不饿。

【经典句式】

dislike不喜欢

waffle华夫饼

leave for work出门上班

In fact, I’m rarely hungry until about lunchtime. So, other than a morning cup ofcoffee, I don’t eat much before noon. This habit has forced me to be subjected to more lectures on how I’m hurting myself, my diet, my work and my health than almost any other. Only a fool would skip the most important meal of the day, right?

事实上，不到午餐时间，我很少感到饥饿。因此，除了早上喝一杯咖啡，中午之前我基本不怎么吃东西。与其他习惯相比，这个习惯为我招来的告诫几乎是最多的，大家都提醒说，我在怎样伤害自己，怎样毁掉自己的节食计划、工作和健康。只有傻瓜才会跳过一天中最重要的一餐，对吧?

【经典句式】

lunchtime午餐时间

other than … 除了……之外

habit习惯

force逼迫

subject… to … 让……遭受……

lecture说教

skip跳过

meal一顿饭

As with many other nutritional pieces of advice, our belief in the power ofbreakfast is based on misinterpreted research and biased studies.

我们认为早餐意义重大，但这种看法是以受到错误解读或有失偏颇的研究为基础的，就和其他许多营养学建议一样。

【大作文万用句式】

As with …和……一样，……

… is based on …以……为基础

【经典句式】

nutritional营养的

a piece of advice一条建议

misinterpret错误解读

biased有失偏颇的

【犀利观点】早餐 & 健康：全段

It does not take much of an effort to find research that shows an association between skipping breakfast and poor health. A 2013 study published inthe journal Circulation found that men who skipped breakfast had a significantly higher risk of coronary heart disease than men who ate breakfast. But, like almost all studies of breakfast, this is an association, not causation.

的确，很容易就可以找到能够证明不吃早餐与健康状况恶化之间存在关联的研究。医学期刊《循环》(Circulation)在2013年发表的一项研究成果显示，不吃早餐的男性罹患冠心病的风险显著高于吃早餐的男性。不过，像关于早餐的几乎所有研究一样，它得出的是相关性，而非因果关系。

【经典句式】

it takes … to do sth 要……就要……

an association between … and … …和…的联系

skipping breakfast不吃早餐

poor health 健康状况恶化

publish发表

journal期刊

have a significantly higher risk of风险显著高

heart disease心脏病

association相关性

causation因果关系

More than most other domains, this topic is one that suffers from publication bias. In a paper published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2013, researchers reviewed the literature on the effect of breakfast on obesity to look specifically at this issue. They first noted that nutrition researchers love to publish results showing a correlation between skipping breakfast and obesity. They love to do so again and again. At some point, there’s no reason to keep publishing on this.

这个话题承载的论文发表偏见，比其他大部分话题要多。在《美国临床营养学期刊》(The American Journalof Clinical Nutrition)于2013年发表的一篇论文中，研究人员通过梳理与早餐对肥胖症的影响有关的文献，专门审视了这个问题。他们首先注意到，营养学研究者很爱发表能够证明不吃早餐和肥胖之间存在关联的研究成果。他们一次又一次乐此不疲地这样做。到了一定的时候，根本就不存在持续发表这类东西的理由。

【经典句式】

domain领域;话题

suffer from受折磨;被影响

publication发表

bias偏见

paper论文

journal期刊

nutrition营养

review审视

literature文献

obesity肥胖症

look specifically at专门研究

issue问题

note指出;注意到

a correlation between … and ……和…的关联

skipping breakfast不吃早餐

at some point到了一定的时候

there’s no reason to do sth 不存在……的理由