| 1. Lack of sleep. Too little sleep has proven to be detrimental for your health. Research links it to high blood pressure, diabetes, weight gain, and looking tired and older. |
1. 睡眠不足。研究顯示，睡眠不足危害身體健康，可能導(dǎo)致高血壓、糖尿病、肥胖，而且會(huì)讓你看起來(lái)疲憊、顯老。 |
| 2. A soft spot for sweets. A sugar-packed diet can take its toll on your waistline, and experts also now believe it can make your skin dull and wrinkled. |
2. 鐘情于甜食。吃甜食較多不僅讓你腰部累積贅肉，而且據(jù)專家稱還會(huì)導(dǎo)致皮膚暗沉，皺紋增多。 |
| 3. Stress. Over time, constant anxiety caused from work or personal problems can delay healing, harden your arteries, and shrink areas of your brain involved in learning, memory, and controlling your mood — talk about feeling older! |
3. 壓力過(guò)大。如果長(zhǎng)時(shí)間感覺(jué)生活、工作壓力太大，會(huì)有損身體愈合功能，導(dǎo)致動(dòng)脈硬化，并可能導(dǎo)致用于學(xué)習(xí)、記憶及調(diào)控心情的大腦區(qū)域萎縮，最終不免感慨——我變老了！ |
| 4. Only exercising when trying to lose weight. Research shows that vigorous exercisers have longer telomeres — cellular biomarkers that shorten as we age — compared with healthy adults who rarely work out. |
4. 單純?yōu)榱藴p肥而鍛煉。研究顯示，端粒是人體衰老的標(biāo)志物，通常會(huì)隨著年齡增長(zhǎng)而縮短。與很少鍛煉的健康人士比較，積極鍛煉的人端粒更長(zhǎng)。 |
| 5. Blasting your iPod. Hearing loss develops slowly, the result of prolonged exposure to thousands of high-decibel insults to the ear, many of which come from exposure to everyday gadgets, like iPods or hair dryers. |
5. 大聲聽(tīng)iPod。長(zhǎng)期暴露在日常生活小物件如iPod或吹風(fēng)機(jī)發(fā)出的高分貝音量下，日積月累，聽(tīng)力會(huì)逐步下降。 |
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6. Not eating fruits and vegetables every day. Antioxidants contained in fruits and vegetables remain active for only a few hours and need to be continually replenished, so don't think you're set for the week after eating a big salad for lunch on Monday.
(China.org.cn May 3, 2011) |
6. 很少吃果蔬。果蔬所含的抗氧化劑活性只能保持幾個(gè)小時(shí)，需要不斷補(bǔ)充，因此千萬(wàn)別覺(jué)得周一午餐吃了一大盤(pán)沙拉，這周就不需要吃了。 |
