So the average person, average normal weight of a typical person might consume 2000 calories a day.

普通人,拥有平均体重的普通人,一天大概消耗二千卡

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Some people can fight the brain off in this case, and control their food intake, maintain a healthy diet, and maintain a normal weight, but the number of such people in the population is shrinking by the day.

有些人可以抵制大脑的控制,控制食物的摄入量,维持健康饮食 保持正常体重,而今,这类人的数量日益减少

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Other days you have more normal intake, or you might be making up for the deficit the previous day and you might have more; and so which of those particular days gets chosen determines a lot on inferences made about a person's overall diet.

有些天你可能吃的比平时多,可以弥补前些天少吃的东西,甚至还要更多,这些特定日子的选择,对推断人的整体饮食,影响很大

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