Unit 47 Watch your impulses.

Unit 47 谨慎点,别冲动

Dieters appear to be more impulsive¹ than non-dieters，say researchers at a midwestern college,An experirment was conducted with a group of male and female students，some of them reporting that they were on a diet，others that they were riot.

中西部一所学院的研究人员指出。节食者似乎比非节食者更冲动，他们针对一群男女学生做了一项实验。这些学牛中有些人正在节食。有些人则没有。

All were deprived of food and water for eight hours and then given a choice between having a glass of juice immediately or waiting an hour for the juice. Those students who described themselves as dieting had a greater tendency to choose the glass of juice immediately,whereas those not dieting more often opted² to wait.

所有的人在被禁食食物和水八小时后，可以选择马上来一杯果汁或是一小时后再喝。那些自称正在节食的学生们较强烈的倾向于选择马上来一杯果汁，而那些没有在节食的人则比较情愿等一小时后再喝。

What is not known is whether people on diets are impulsive in the first place or whether the process of dieting itself leads to increased impulsiveness³. But whatever the reason.he on guard. A good technique for counteracting⁴ an urge is to count to 10 while slowly inhaling⁵ and exhaling⁶ deeply，imagining the impulse passing by as quickly as it came.

节食中的人是否一开始就比较冲动，还是在节食的过程中才变得冲动并不得而知。但不论原因为何，都得谨慎点。有个可以抵消这种冲动的好方法，就是缓慢地深深吸气、吐气数到十，同时想象这种一时的冲动来得多快、去得也有多快。

健身短语

1. have a tendency to V有……的倾向

2. lead to.. .导致....

3. be on guard 看守，有警觉