"It would only take one kernel in ten thousand to affect food processing."

VOA: special.2011.03.08

Now one of the books that will be assigned for the class is by Michael Pollan called, In Defense of Food, and he spends some time in that book discussing and he has a very interesting take on it.

这门课要布置给你们阅读的书中,有一本是迈克尔·鲍兰写的,为食物辩护,书中的部分内容,是讨论何为食物,他的某些见解很独到

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

We take in a lot of food and water everyday, every year, and yet most of us our weight stays remarkably stable over that period of time for adults despite how much we eat and how much we drink.

日复一日年复一年,我们都摄入大量的食物和水,但我们绝大部分人的体重,在成年期都保持得很稳定,不管我们怎样大吃大喝

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Let's create a graph here that on the x axis it's going to be time, so time zero will be when you first take in a food and then one hour later, two hours later will be shown as you go from left to right, and then we'll have blood glucose level up on the y axis.

我们在这建立一个曲线图,X轴代表的是时间,所以零时间点是你第一次进食的时间,然后一小时以后,两小时以后,是从左到右呈现在图表上的,在Y轴上是你的血糖值

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选