This normal weight animal like this has its whole equilibrium thrown off, its homeostasis thrown off when its dietary conditions change.

在饮食条件发生变化时,这些正常体重动物的生理平衡被打破,于是摈弃了原来的平衡饮食

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

As we'll discuss in the class, and most of you probably know this, your body weight is a function of how many calories you take in and how many calories you burn off through metabolic processes but also physical activity.

我们将会讲到,而且你们中的大部分人可能也知道,你的体重随着卡路里的摄取量,和代谢中的消耗量而变化,还跟肢体活动有关

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

You could take weights on people measured over a period of many years and look at the variability over time in weight and then link it to things like heart disease and cancer, and I'll come back later and talk about the results of that particular study.

我们还可以得到人们很长一段时间里,每年的体重数据,观察体重随着时间变化的变动,并将观察结果与心脏疾病和癌症联系起来,我等一下会告诉大家这项研究的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选