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Why dieting doesn’t usually work About the speaker Sandra Aamodt is a neuroscientist and science writer, who takes the complexities of neuroscience research and whips them into fun reads that give people a better understanding of their minds and behavior. Her books Welcome to Your Brain and Welcome to Your Childs Brain (both written with Sam Wang) are designed to bring neuroscience to a general audience, and theyve both been widely translated. Aamodts science writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, ElMundo and the Times of London. From 2003 to 2008, Aamodt was the editor-in-chief of Nature Neuroscience, a leading scientific journal in the field of brain research. She brings a significant scientific background to the task of explaining new research without creating neurobunk. During her career, she has read over five thousand neuroscience papers, and written many editorials on science policy. New words Hypothalamus [?ha?p??θ?l?m?s] n. 丘脑下部 The hypothalamus, the part of the brain that regulates body weight, there are more than a dozen chemical signals in the brain that tell your body to gain weight. 大脑的一个部分叫下丘脑它调节着你的体重你的大脑有十多种化学信号告诉你的身体去增加体重 thermostat [θ?rm??st?t /θ??m-] n. 自动调温器, 温度调节装置 more than another dozen that tell your body to lose it,?and the system works like a thermostat. 还有另外十多种信号会告诉你的身体去减重,这系统的工作原理就像恒温器 Metabolism [m?t?b?l?zm] n. 新陈代谢, 变形 responding to signals from the body?by adjusting hunger, activity and metabolism,?to keep your weight stable as conditions change 对身体接收到的信号做出反应通过调节饥饿感，活动，新陈代谢根据条件的变化，维持你的体重 Famine [f?m?n] n. 饥荒, 饥馑, 缺乏 If that weight loss had been due to a long famine, that would be a sensible response. 如果减重是由长时间饥饿造成的，这是合情合理的反应 5 . willpower n. 毅力, 意志力 Psychologists classify eaters into two groups, those who rely on the