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智课网TOEFL备考资料 托福阅读材料之少吃肉有助于背单词 In recent years, some research has suggested that a high-fat diet may be bad for the brain, at least in lab animals. Can exercise protect against such damage? That question may have particular relevance now, with the butter-and cream-laden holidays fast approaching. And it has prompted several new and important studies。  近年来，一些研究表明高脂饮食可能对大脑有害，至少动物实验的情况如此。那么，运动能否帮助我们抵抗这种损害呢？随着节日到来，一大波充斥着黄油和奶酪的食品正在袭来，这个问题有了特殊的重要性，由此也带来了一些新的重要实验。  The most captivating of these, presented last month at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans, began with scientists at the University of Minnesota teaching a group of rats to scamper from one chamber to another when they heard a musical tone, an accepted measure of the animals ability to learn and remember.For the next four months, half of the rats ate normal chow. The others happily consumed a much greasier diet, consisting of at least 40 percent fat. Total calories were the same in both diets.After four months, the animals repeated the memory test. Those on a normal diet performed about the same as they had before; their cognitive ability was the same. The high-fat eaters, though, did much worse.Then, half of the animals in each group were given access to running wheels. Their diets didnt change. So, some of the rats on the high-fat diet were now exercising. Some were not. Ditto for the animals eating the normal diet。  上个月，在新奥尔良神经科学学会(Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans)年会上，明尼苏达州大学(University of Minnesota)的科学家们提交了一个最为吸引人的发现：他们令一组大鼠听到音乐后从一个小室疾走到另一个小室，这是一个被普遍认可的测量动物学习和记忆能力的实验。接下来四个月，一半的老鼠正常饮食，另一半则愉快地享用更为油腻的饮食，其中包含至少40%的脂肪。两种饮食的总卡路里量是一样的。四个月后，动物们再次接受记忆测试。正常饮食的大鼠表现与之前一样；认知能力也一样。而高脂饮食组的表现就差得多了。接下来，两组各有一半大鼠被提供了滚轮装置。它们的饮食没有变化。这样，高脂饮食组的一半大鼠开始运动，另一半则没有运动。正常饮食组的大鼠也是同样的情况。  For the next seven weeks, the memory test was repeated weekly in all of the groups. During that time, the performance of the rats eating a high-fat diet continued to decline so long a