咖啡——我们的健康伴侣

by Alvin Powell

翻译：常青

咖啡
——我们的健康伴侣

by Alvin Powell

翻译：常青

How Coffee Loues Us Back

喜欢喝咖啡的你，读完这篇短文后，会不会更加爱它呢？哈哈！

Coffee is everywhere, through history and across the world. And gradually, science is1)demonstrating that its popularity is a good thing.

Harvard scientists have for years put coffee under the2)microscope. They found that coffee protects against type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Sanjiv Chopra, a professor of3)medicine at Harvard, frst became aware of the4)potentially powerful protective effects of coffee. He himself makes sure to have several cups a day, and encourages others to do

the same.

A study that accounted for poor lifestyle habits,

found that if people drank at least one cup of coffee

dying from lifestyle-related health problems over a

long time.

However, coffee is a5)complex drink. It’s still

very diffcult to fnd out which6)component of coffee

does good to us.

咖啡无处不在，从古至今，从西到东。渐渐地，科学研究表明，咖啡如此受欢迎是件好事。

哈佛大学的科学家们多年来致力于探究咖啡的奥秘。他们发现，喝咖啡有助于预防2型糖尿病和心血管疾病。

The laser parameters with a pulse of 14 ns, a frequency of 1 Hz, a spot diameter of 3 mm and the laser pulse energy of 5.0–7.0 J was used for this experiment. The laser intensity can be represented as the following equation:

哈佛大学的医学教授桑吉夫·乔普拉是意识到咖啡中潜藏的强大保护作用的第一人。他确保自己每天都喝上几杯咖啡，同时他鼓励其他人也这么做。

一项关于人们生活陋习的研究表明，如果人们每天能至少喝上一杯咖啡，那么长此以往，就可以降低死于由生活方式所引起的健康问题的风险。

然而，咖啡是一种成分多样的饮料。目前人们仍难以找出究竟是咖啡的哪种成分对我们有好处。

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type 2 diabetes（2型糖尿病），患此病者多肥胖，患者体内的胰岛素产生过多，但胰岛素的作用效果较差，因此患者体内的胰岛素是一种相对缺乏。此病的常见症状是多饮、多食、多尿，以及不明原因的体重下降。

cardiovascular disease（心血管疾病），又称为循环系统疾病，是一系列涉及循环系统的疾病。循环系统指人体内运送血液的器官和组织，主要包括心脏、血管。该疾病可以细分为急性和慢性，一般都与动脉硬化有关。

词组加油站

protect against 使免受

become aware of发觉，意识到

protective effect 防护作用

account for 对……作出解释或说明

risk of ……的风险

die from 死于

do good to 对……有益

1) demonstrate ['demənstreɪt] v. 证明

2) microscope ['maɪkrəskəʊp] n. 显微镜

3) medicine ['medɪsɪn] n. 医学

4) potentially [pə'tenʃəlɪ] adv. 潜在地

5) complex ['kɒmpleks] adj. 复杂的

6) component [kəm'pəʊnənt] n. 成分