"Just like eating a high fat diet can increase your levels of triglycerides and cholesterol, eating sugar can also affect those same lipids."

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

Now if you've gone to the doctor, often they'll measure your triaglyceride level as a measure of how healthy your liver is and how healthy your diet is.

现在如果你去看医生,他们通常会测你的甘油三酯水平,以此作为你的肝健康和饮食健康的指标

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Now again we're not-- the purpose of this class isn't to have you improve your diet, if that happens that's fine, but that's not the purpose of the class.

现在再次重申,本门课的目的不是改进你的饮食,如果你的饮食因此改善,那很好,但是这不是本门课的目的

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All these things are very important players, so we'll talk about this and discuss what sort of things are shaping your diet, but also the world's diet and the reasons behind them.

这些因素都非常的重要,我们会对此进行讨论,并讨论是什么塑造了我们的饮食习惯,以及世界各地人们的饮食习惯,及其背后的原因

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The number of calories you guys consume as a part of your diet, if you're the average person, is much higher than used to be the case and that has very interesting biological implications that we'll discuss.

从作为饮食一部分的饮料中摄取的热量,就普通人的情况而言,和过去相比要高得多,这包含了一层有趣的生物学含义

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What we'll--later in the course we'll talk about how much of your body has been influenced by corn; how much of your diet is influenced by corn; how many products you touch in a given day have been derived in some way from corn.

我们会在以后的课堂上讲到,玉米对你身体有多少影响,玉米对你的日常饮食又有多少影响,一天之内你接触到的产品,有多少是由玉米加工而来的

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It's going to be your way of analyzing your own diet and trying to make sense of it.

大家需要按自己的方式,分析自己的饮食并进行解读

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Let's say, just say that you're wanting to change your own diet to improve your health.

比如说,你想改变自己的饮食习惯,使自己更健康

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Well, that's thanks to your ancestors and thanks to the conditions that they've inherited, that you would seek out a diet that has those particular conditions.

其实,这要归因于我们的先祖,是由于祖先们传承下来的,在特定时期的饮食结构决定的

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A food frequency--by the way, you also have the issue of whether the particular twenty-four hours that a person is interviewed is representative of their diet overall, because you can imagine how much your food intake varies from day to day.

食物摄取频率,顺便说下,还有一个问题,就是在选取的24小时里,测试者,是不是对总体有代表性,因为你可以想象,每天事物的摄入量都是不同的

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Now we don't care what you're eating so nobody-- we're not going to attend to that at all; I mean you could eat Twinkies four times a day and that could be your total diet, or you could eat something else; it doesn't really matter so much.

我不在乎你们吃了什么,我们不关注这点,也就是说你们可以一天吃下四顿奶油夹心,作为一天的饮食,或者吃点别的,这没多大关系

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