你若间隔数小时吃一顿大餐，这样就会使你的代谢速度减慢。

When you eat large meals with many hours in between, you train your metabolism to slow down.

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你如果不吃早饭，新陈代谢速度会减慢。

If you skip breakfast, your metabolism slows down.

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我们的身体通过减慢新陈代谢速度的办法来保护自己，亦即减慢把我们所吃的食物转化成能量的过程。

It does this by slowing down metabolism, the process by which the food we eat is converted into energy.

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