备战2020年高考英语一轮复习unit2 healthy eating 练习.pdfVIP

课时作业（十二） 必修③ Unit 2 Healthy eating I.阅读理解 A （2019·长沙市南昌市第一次联考）Watching what you eat can be easier said than done, but a recent study shows it might not just be about whats on your plate it could be about how quickly it disappears. Japanese researchers followed 1,083 adults for five years, splitting them into three categories based on how quickly they ate: slow, normal, and fast. They also answered a questionnaire at the beginning of the study, sharing their diet, physical activity, and medical history. In the beginning, none of the volunteers had metabolic syndrome ( 新 陈代谢综合征) meaning at least three risk factors which can lead to health problems like heart conditions and diabetes. When the participants reported back five years later, 84 had been diagnosed (诊断) with metabolic syndrome and their eating speed was a major predictor, according to the results in the journal Circulation. The fast eaters were 89 percent more likely to have metabolic syndrome than slow and normal eaters. Just 2.3 percent of slow eaters received the diagnosis, compared to 11.6 percent of fast eaters. But thats not all. Fast eaters also saw more weight gain, larger waistlines, and higher blood sugar levels than slow eaters. The researchers say gobbling makes it easier not to take notice of fullness before your body has a chance to signal you to stop. “So when people eat fast they are more likely to overeat，” said Takayuki Yamaji, MD, study author and cardiologist at Hiroshima University in Japan in a statement. Previous research backs up the weight benefits of slow eating, too. One study of New Zealand women found fast eaters have higher body- mass indexes( 指数), and a Chinese study found that both healthy and fat men ate less when told to chew 40 times instead of 15 ti