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The festive break is fast becoming a distant memory and for many, New Year fitness regimes are too. |
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The festive break is fast becoming a distant memory and for many, New Year fitness regimes are too. Despite 2.6m people starting diets on New Year’s Day, research suggests that by the end of the week 92 percent of dieters gave up, shunning exercise and gorging on comfort food. Findings, released by weightloss firm XLS-Medical, suggest that the vast majority are unsuccessful at sticking to their diets for more than five days a week. Two out of 10 dieters admitted they have their first diet relapse just four to five days in, with hunger cited as the main cause. Boredom and alcohol were also blamed for people failing to keep their health kick on track. Dr Matt Capehorn, Clinical Director of the National Obesity Forum, highlighted that just one day off from dieting can undo a week's worth of hard work. He told Female First: 'A healthy diet, aimed at losing 1lb per week, relies on saving 3500 calories a week by having 500 calories less each day. 'A day off the diet should mean that you eat the correct amount, but many dieters see it as an excuse to binge and have thousands of calories more than they need. The results suggest that a massive 590,000 could already have failed to stick to New Year diet resolutions. And a vast majority are unaware of the negative impact a single day off can have on their weight loss efforts. Overall it was found only 5 percent of women stick to their diets until they’ve reached their target weight. (Read by Emily Cheng. Emily Cheng is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
新年假期會很快成為遙遠的回憶，而對很多人來說，新年的減肥計劃也會很快被拋之腦后。 調(diào)查顯示，盡管英國有260萬人在新年第一天開始減肥，但在當周結(jié)束時，已有92%的節(jié)食減肥者放棄，不再運動，而且開始大吃大喝。 英國減重中心XLS-Medical發(fā)布的這項調(diào)查結(jié)果表明，大多數(shù)人都無法在制定節(jié)食減肥計劃的一周內(nèi)堅持五天。 五分之一的節(jié)食減肥者承認自己在四五天的時間里就堅持不住了，他們提到的主要原因是饑餓。 無聊的情緒和酒精刺激也讓他們無法堅持瘦身計劃。 英國國家肥胖論壇臨床主任馬特?凱派恩博士強調(diào)指出，僅僅一天不節(jié)食就會毀掉一周的努力。 他告訴Female First雜志說：“健康的瘦身是一星期減去1磅，有賴于一周減少3500卡路里攝取，而一天減少500卡路里的攝取即可。” “免節(jié)食一天應(yīng)該意味著你攝入正確的食量，而很多節(jié)食者把這看作大吃大喝的借口，吃進的卡路里數(shù)量比需要的多出好幾千?！?/p> 調(diào)查結(jié)果顯示，有多達59萬人可能已經(jīng)放棄了新年減肥計劃。 而且還有很多人不清楚一天不堅持對其減肥計劃的負面影響。 總的來說，僅有5%的女性能堅持到最后，直到實現(xiàn)瘦身目標。 相關(guān)閱讀 （中國日報網(wǎng)英語點津 Julie 編輯：陳丹妮） |
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Vocabulary: comfort food: 安慰食物，慰藉食物 relapse: 故態(tài)復萌，舊病復發(fā) |
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