搜索 复制 Metabolic syndrome ties together a host of disorders that the medical community typically thought of as unrelated, or at least having separate and distinct causes 代谢综合症将一系列的疾病联系在一起，而医疗界通常认...
搜索 复制 Nutritionists have found it in themselves to blame our chronic ills on virtually any element of the diet or environment on fats and cholesterol, 营养学家发现，他们自己就把我们的慢性疾病归咎于几乎任何饮食或环...
搜索 复制 From the 1980s onwards, manufacturers of products advertised as uniquely healthy because they were low in fat, 从20世纪80年代开始，那些因低脂肪， or specifically in saturated fat, took to replacing those fat calories with...
The more we use these substances, the less dopamine we produce naturally in the brain. 我们越使用这些物质，大脑自然产生的多巴胺就越少。 The result is that we need more of the drug to get the same pleasurable response, while na...
搜索 复制 This is speculation, however, as is the notion that the taste of sugar will soothe distress and stop infants crying, or that consuming sugar will allow adults to work through pain and exhaustion and to assuage hunger pains. 然而，这只...
搜索 复制 Unlike alcohol, which was the only commonly available psychoactive substance in the old world until they arrived, 在它们到来之前，酒精是旧世界唯一常见的精神活性物质， sugar, nicotine and caffeine had at least s...
搜索 复制 Mintz has argued that a primary reason sugar has escaped social disapproval is that, whatever conspicuous behavioural changes may occur when infants consume sugar, 明茨认为，糖没有受到社会反对的一个主要原因是，无论...
搜索 复制 The critical question, as the journalist and historian Charles C Mann has elegantly put it, is whether (sugar) is actually an addictive substance, or if people just act like it is. 正如记者兼历史学家查尔斯C曼恩优雅说过的...
搜索 复制 There is something about the experience of consuming sugar and sweets, particularly during childhood, that readily invokes the comparison to a drug. 关于吃糖和吃甜食的经历，特别是在儿童时期，很容易让人联想到一...
搜索 复制 Is sugar the world's most popular drug? 糖是世界上最受欢迎的毒药？ It eases pain, seems to be addictive and shows every sign of causing long-term health problems. Is it time to quit sugar for good? 它能减轻疼痛，好像...
搜索 复制 One day in September, late in the summer after my grandparents passed, my aunts wrote an ordinary series of messages. 9月的一天，也就是夏末的一天，爷爷奶奶去世了，阿姨们写下了很多普普通通的信息。 Th...
搜索 复制 In her novel Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen, Marilyn Chin, whose family moved to the US from Hong Kong, writes: Deep in her heart, she knew that each step backward would only mean regret the vector goes in only one direction, the homing...
搜索 复制 I had been trying to live in two worlds: spending time in China, improving my Mandarin, learning what I could of Chinese history, of my grandparents' pasts. Then there was my American life. Classes, jobs, money, rent, Netflix, friends,...
While travelling alone, I wasn't sure what my purpose was. I spent a lot of time in Airbnbs doing my freelance work. 独自旅行时我不确定自己的目的是什么。我花了很多时间在Airbnbs做自由职业者。 I had a research gig combi...
搜索 复制 After I interviewed my family, I stayed in China for a month to travel around by myself for the first time. 在采访完家人之后我又在中国呆了一个月，开启了我的第一次独自旅行。 I'd gone sightseeing in the pas...
