TED Sandra Aamodt 为什么节食不能减肥.docx

TED Sandra Aamodt 为什么节食不能减肥Three and half a year ago,I made one of the best decisions of my life.As my New Year’s resolution,I gave up dieting,stopped worrying about my weight,and learned to eat mindfully.Now I eat whenever I’m hungry,and I’ve lost 10 pounds.This was me at age 13,when I started my first diet.I look at that picture now,and I think,you did not need a diet,you needed a fashion consult.But I thought I needed to lose weight,and when I gained it back,of cause I blamed myself.I’m sure many of you know the feeling.As a neuroscientist,I wondered,why is this so hard?Obviously,how much you weigh depends on how much you eat and how much energy you burn.What most people don’t realize is that hunger and energy use are controlled by the brain,mostly without your awareness.Your brain does a lot of its work behind the scenes,and that is a good thing,because your conscious mind--how do we put this politely?--it’s easily distracted.It’s good that you don’t have remember to breathe when you get caught up in a moive,you don’t forget how to walk because you’re thinking about what to have for dinner.Your brain also has its own sense of what you should weigh,no matter what you consciously believe.This is called your set point,but that’s a misleading term,because it’s actually a range of about 10 or 15 pounds.You can use lifestyle choices to move your weight up and down within that range,but it’s much,much harder to stay outside of it.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,more than another dozen that tell your body to lose it,and the system works like a thermostst,responding to signals from the body by adjusting hunger,activity and metabolism,to keep your weight stable as conditions change.That’s what a thermostat does,right?It keeps the temperature in your house the same, as the weather changes outside.Now you can try to change the temperature in your ho