第四章 不够瘦是因为睡觉时光线太亮.docVIP

不够瘦是因为睡觉时光线太亮？ Is there an association between light exposure at night and overweight? Sleeping in a room with too much light has been linked to an increased risk of piling on the pounds, a study shows. 有研究表明，在光线太强的房间睡觉与会增加增重的风险。 A team at the Institute of Cancer Research in London found women had larger waistlines if their bedroom was light enough to see across at night. 伦敦癌症研究所的一个团队发现如果女性的卧室晚上光线“足以看清整个卧室”的话，她们的腰围会增加。 However, they caution there is not enough evidence to advise people to buy thicker curtains or turn off lights. 然而，研究人员警告称，没有足够的证据能让人们买厚窗帘或关掉灯。 The study of 113, 000 women waspublished in the American Journal of Epidemiology. 调查了113000名女性的研究发表在《美国流行病学》杂志上。 The women were asked to rate the amount of light in their bedrooms at night as: 女性被要求将她们卧室的亮度按照以下级别评定： Light enough to read；Light enough to see across the room, but not read；Light enough to see your hand in front of you, but not across the room；Too dark to see your hand or you wear a mask Their answers were compared to several measures of obesity. Body Mass Index, waist-to-hip ratio and waist circumference were all higher in women with lighter rooms. 将她们的回答与一些肥胖测量标准进行比照。房间光线较强的女性，她们的体重指数(BMI)、腰臀比值和腰围值都要高一些。 Prof Anthony Swerdlow, from the Institute of Cancer Research, told the BBC: In this very large group of people there is an association between reported light exposure at night and overweight and obesity. 英国癌症研究学会的史维德娄教授告诉英国广播公司，对于很多人来说，夜间曝光与超重以及肥胖有关。 But there is not sufficient evidence to know if making your room darker would make any difference to your weight. 但是没有足够的证据表明，如果将房间灯光调暗，体重会有变化。 There might be other explanations for the association, but the findings are intriguing enough to warrant further scientific investigation. 可能对于这种关联还有别的解释，但是这个发现很有趣，足以促使进一步的科学研究。 One possible explanation is that the light is disrupting the body clock, which stems from our evolutionary past when we were active when it was light in the day and resting when it was dark at night. 一种可能的解释是，光线干扰生物钟。生物钟源于人类进化的过程，当有光线