1. take up sth.开始做某事
take up a job 开始工作
take up a question 开始着手处理问题
take up exercise 开始运动
2. compelling news study令人信服的研究
compelling film 引人入胜的电影
compelling adj. ①令人信服的；②引人入胜的
3. novice exercisers锻炼新手
novice UK /ˈnɒvɪs/ n. 初学者
4. fattening foods=high-calorie, fatty foods致胖食物
5. have long-term implications for对...意味深远
6. control group 控制组，对照组
7. a measure of sth.一定程度的某物
a measure of progress 一定程度的进步
8. work out锻炼
9. nudge sb. to do sth促使某人去做某事
nudge vt./n 促使，促动
10. underscore vt. 突出显示，强调；在下面划线
11. overconsume v. 暴饮暴食
12. dietitian n.营养学家，营养师
13. sedentary UK /ˈsedəntəri/ US /ˈsedənteri/ adj. 久坐的
①Taking up exercise could alter our feelings about food in surprising and beneficial ways, according to a compelling new study of exercise and eating. The study finds that novice exercisers start to experience less desire for fattening foods, a change that could have long-term implications for weight control.
②The researchers asked a group of sedentary men and women about how they felt about food. Some of the volunteers then were asked to continue with their normal lives as a control group, while the others began exercising.
③It turns out that the exercisers no longer found high-calorie, fatty foods quite so irresistible. Interestingly, their scores on measures of “liking,” or how much they expected to enjoy those same foods, remained unchanged and strong.
④The study also shows, though, that different people respond quite differently to the same exercise routine and the same foods, underscoring the complexities of the relationship between exercise, eating and fat loss.
