夏日瘦身有新招 专家发明意念进食法

　　The secret of staying slim could be as simple as keeping your mind on your meals.

　　保持苗条身段的秘密或许非常简单，你要做的也许只需将注意力都转移到进食这件事情上。

　　A wealth of research suggests that freeing ourselves from distractions and concentrating completely on the food that is in front of us, helps us stay in shape.

　　有大量的研究显示，将我们从各种干扰和分散注意力的事物中解脱出来，并且将关注的焦点都放在我们眼前的这餐食物之上，这样做就能帮助我们体态轻盈。

　　Such ‘mindful eating’ ensures that the mind is in tune with the body, enabling it to ‘hear’ the chemical messages that tell it that we are full.

　　这样一种“全神贯注进食”的方法其实是使得我们的“身心合一”，同时让我们的身体更清晰的接收到某种化学信息，它将告诉我们，自己已经吃饱了。

　　In studies, including some from the respected Harvard University in the US, dieters who focussed on their food rather than what was going on around them lost an average of half a stone.

　　来自美国备受推崇的哈佛大学的一些实验表型，进食者将注意力集中在食物之上，并不受周遭所发生的事情之后，他们的体重都有不少的减轻。

　　Mindful eating, named after the Buddhist principle of focusing on the present, has also been shown to help binge eaters get their splurges under control, with the number of binges cut from eight a fortnight to just three.

　　“意念进食法”的名称源于佛教中关注当下的教义，同时着也能帮助到不少暴饮暴食的人戒掉这个不好的习惯，没有节制的狂吃一通的情况也从一周八次降低到了三次而已。

　　The researchers say that digestion involves a complex series of hormonal signals between the gut and the nervous system and it takes about 20 minutes for the brain to register that the body has eaten enough.

　　研究者表示，消化系统中，肠道与神经系统之间存在了一系列复杂的激素响应信号，这一过程大约需要20分钟的时间，大脑才能接收到身体已经吃饱了的信号。

　　This means that if someone eats too quickly, the signals will lag behind, leading to over-eating.

　　这也就意味着，如果你吃得太快的话，这一信号将被大大延迟，这将导致你吃得更多。