TED | 为什么节食减肥经常不起作用？

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在美国，10岁少女中有80%的人表示过自己有通过节食减肥，在我国，想必这个数字也不会少。而研究表明，在青少年时期通节食过的女孩，在成年后变胖的概率是没有节食的人的3倍！在本期TED演讲中，神经系统科学家Sandra Aamodt将会依据自己的多年研究，为我们揭秘节食减肥之事。

 

 

 

 

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Diets don’t have very much reliability. Five years after a diet, most people have regained the weight. Forty percent of them have gained even more. If you think about this, the typical outcome of dieting is that you’re more likely to gain weight in the long run than to lose it.

节食并不是非常值得信赖的，节食五年之后，大多数人体重会反弹，其中百分之四十的人甚至比原来还要重。如果你想到这些节食的一般结果，是在长期过程中更有可能增重而不是减重。

 

If I’ve convinced you that dieting might be a problem, the next question is, what do you do about it? And my answer, in a word, is mindfulness. I’m not saying you need to learn to meditate or take up yoga. I’m talking about mindful eating: learning to understand your body’s signals so that you eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re full, because a lot of weight gain boils down to eating when you’re not hungry. How do you do it?

如果我已经让你相信，节食会带来一些麻烦 。下一个问题便是，你会做些什么？ 我的答案是，简单说，就是留心。我并不是说你需要学着调整或开始练习瑜伽，我指的是在吃上面多加注意，学会了解身体发出的信号，这样可以让你在饿的时候吃，在饱的时候停下来。 因为大量的增重归结为：在并不饿的时候吃东西，你该怎么做？

 

Give yourself permission to eat as much as you want, and then work on figuring out what makes your body feel good. Sit down to regular meals without distractions. Think about how your body feels when you start to eat and when you stop, and let your hunger decide when you should be done. It took about a year for me to learn this, but it's really been worth it.

允许自己尽可能的吃，然后找出吃多少才能让你感觉舒服。你需要一心一意坐下来吃一日三餐，当你开始吃和吃完之后，想想你的身体感觉如何。让你的饥饿感决定，你应该什么时候停止。我花了差不多一年才学到这些，但是我做这些确实很值得。

 

I am so much more relaxed around food than I have ever been in my life. I often don’t think about it. I forget we have chocolate in the house. It’s like aliens have taken over my brain. It’s just completely different. I should say that this approach to eating probably won’t make you lose weight unless you often eat when you’re not hungry, but doctors don’t know of any approach that makes significant weight loss in a lot of people, and that is why a lot of people are now focusing on preventing weight gain instead of promoting weight loss.

在食物面前，比起之前我变得更加释然。我经常不去想它，我会忘记家里有巧克力，这就像外星人控制了我的大脑一样， 生活变得完全不同了。我需要说的是，这个方法可能不会让你减重，如果你不是经常在你不饿的时候吃东西。但是医生们并不知道可以让很多人都能显著减重的方法，这就是为什么现在很多人专注于防止体重增加，而不是让体重减轻。

 

Let’s face it: If diets worked, we’d all be thin already. Why do we keep doing the same thing and expecting different results?

我们需要面对现实，如果节食有效的话，所有人现在都已经瘦下来了 。为什么我们一直做同样的事情并且期待不同的结果？

 

Diets may seem harmless, but they actually do a lot of collateral damage. At worst, they ruin lives: Weight obsession leads to eating disorders,especially in young kids. In the U.S., we have 80 percent of 10-year-old girls say they’ve been on a diet. Our daughters have learned to measure their worth by the wrong scale.

节食似乎是无害的，但是它确实会带来很多附带的危害。在最坏的情况下，它会危及生命。体重的困扰会导致饮食混乱，特别是在小孩子当中出现。在美国，80%的10岁女孩说她们在节食。我们的女儿们学会的是用错误的标尺来衡量她们的价值。

 

Even at its best, dieting is a waste of time and energy. It takes willpower which you could be using to help your kids with their homework or to finish that important work project, and because willpower is limited, any strategy that relies on its consistent application is pretty much guaranteed to eventually fail you when your attention moves on to something else.

即使结果很好，节食还是既浪费时间又浪费精力，它消耗一种意志，而你可以将其用在帮助你的孩子完成作业或者完成一项重要的计划，因为意志十分有限。任何依赖坚持不懈的行动计划，当你把注意力分散到其他方面的时候，最终一定会以失败告终。