英语,学士学位自考书第四单元..docVIP

Unit Four Health Text A The Belly Fat-Stress Connection Most people look as body fat as an enemy and they should to a certain extent.However,in understanding how to beat belly fat,it helps to understand the genetically engineered reasons that we store body fat the way we do and the differences berween modern life and the way our ancestors lived.It akk started with simple survival.Without the ability to easily srore fat some of us would not even be here on this earth today,so thank your ancestors for improving the hardiness of your family’s gene pool and keeping you in the mix. Despite fat’s value in the evolutionary scheme of things,excess belly fat can cause many problems and I’m not talking about whether you can tie your skin-has been associated in recent years with all kinds of health problems ranging from heart disease,to strokes and to diabetes.Fat can be cosmetically frustrating,but belly fat can also be deadly. Gender is one factor that affects where you store your fat.Men store most of it in their belly, while women store more fat in their hips and thighs.Women store body fat in the lower body because of childbirth and hormonal reasons. But why does the fat go there so quickly and easily?Why doesn’t it just even itself out all across the body rather than concentrating in one unsightly area?And why do we get belly fat in the first place?Obviously,the first reason is caloric excess.That is always true in males and in females,so before you start pointing your finger at gender,hormones or anything else,look at how much you’re eating every day first. At the risk of continuing to state the obvious,the second reason is not enough exercise.In today’s modern technologically advanced society,we do not work like our grandparents did,and our waistlines show it(在今天的现代科技发达的社会中，我们与祖辈的工作方式有了很大不同，从我们的腰围上就能看出来).I also believe that in our society today,we are much more stressed out than our ancestors were.Sure,there were fight or flight situations in the natural