Living a Balanced and Healthy Life
What are the most important steps to follow if you want to feel good from morning to night? Feeling good means that your body and mind are working at their peak level. And you have a general sense of well-being.
To feel good day after day, try the following tips:
Get sunlight during the day.
Sunlight stimulates the brain chemical serotonin (血清素), which plays a role in helping you feel happy. While you’re outdoors in the sun, use the time to exercise.
Set yourself up for good sleep.
In the evening as the sky grows darker, your brain makes a hormone called melatonin (褪黑素).
* Be sure to get that daily exercise in the sun, since it also helps you sleep at night.
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Eat “ feel-good ” foods
* Focus on multicoloured whole foods that are recently alive. That means fresh vegetables, fruit, beans, and whole grains instead of processed foods.
* Make room for vegetables such as cauliflower, cabbage, and kale.
* Avoid foods that make your blood sugar soar like sweetened sodas and sugary baked goods. They aren’t good for your health, or your energy level.
| A．Turn off the lights. |
| B．Turn on the lights. |
| C．This helps you get sleep. |
| D．They’re super-foods for feeling good. |
| E．Health depends on good food, fresh air and enough sleep. |
| F．The way you eat makes a bit difference in whether you feel strong or weak. |
| G．Research has found that physical activities can work well for treating depression. |
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【推荐1】With more and more people having a longer life in the world, people are eager to know what to do and what not to do.
It is well know that women live longer on average than men — and some researchers claim this is because they are better at visiting their doctor and voicing any concerns about their health, rather than sticking their heads in the sand.
Not smoking, not being overweight and taking sufficient exercise keep your heart and blood vessels healthy for longer — and all that is good for your brain, too.
One popular theory about aging concerns the damage caused to the tissues in our bodies by “free radicals (自由基)”. Our immune system makes these free radicals ineffective using antioxidant (抗氧化剂) nutrients such as vitamins A and C, and the theory is that a diet high in such “antioxidants” will help you hold back the the years. In fact, though there is no doubt among scientists that free radicals harm the body, there is no hard proof that aging is caused simply by a lack of sufficient antioxidants in our bodies or our food.
Another theory growing in popularity holds that we can stay alive longer by eating less, for an experiment concluded mice live longer when fed 30 percent fewer calories. Though the beneficial effect has since been found in other species, including fruit flies, what we really want to know is how this applies to humans. The answer may be found in long-term experiments in the U.S. using rhesus monkeys, which are closely related to us in evolutionary terms. However, though the aging process is slower in those animals, monkeys on the calorie restriction group do not appear to live longer.
1. Which of the following would the author agree with?| A．Go on a diet. |
| B．Say your worries aloud if you have any. |
| C．Take in sufficient antioxidants. |
| D．The more physical exercise, the better. |
| A．They have a negative effect on humans. |
| B．They can produce vitamins A and |
| C．They account for a lack of antioxidants. |
| D．They help humans hold back the years. |
| A．fruit flies are closest to humans in genes |
| B．the author is not a little in favor of eating less |
| C．calorie restriction doesn’t necessarily work out well |
| D．the less a rhesus monkey eats, the longer it will live |
| A．Facts about losing weight. |
| B．Way to keep healthy. |
| C．How to have a longer life. |
| D．How to live happily. |
【推荐2】Two American scientists told the people in industrial nations that they would be much healthier if they ate more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago.
The scientists say that the human body has changed very little since human first appeared on earth, but the way we live has changed greatly. Our body has not been able to deal with these changes in lifestyle and this has led to new kinds of sicknesses. These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times. So they are called “dis- eases of civilization (文明)”. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system, including heart attacks and strokes (中风), are examples of such diseases.
Scientists noted that early stoneage people used very little alcohol (酒精) or tobacco, probably none. Ancient people also got a great deal of physical exercise, but a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and life today. Stoneage people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than farm animals. They also ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruit. They did not use milk and other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains. But today, we eat a large amount of dairy products and grain food. We eat six times more salt than stoneage people. We eat more sugar. We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein (蛋白质) and much less vitamin C.
People today probably do not want to live as people thousands of years ago did, but scientists say that we would be much healthier if we ate as those ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet food.
1. The people in industrial nations would be much healthier if they ate ______.| A．more food as humans living 10,000 years ago did |
| B．as humans living 10,000 years ago did |
| C．more kinds of food eaten by people living over 10,000 years ago |
| D．more of the same kind of food eaten by people over 10,000 years ago |
| A．the human body has changed compared with humans that first appeared on earth |
| B．the way we live has changed a little |
| C．our body can’t deal with the changes in lifestyle |
| D．the way we live today is proper for the human body |
| A．Ancient people did a great deal of physical exercise. |
| B．People today have a lot of alcohol. |
| C．People today have more tobacco. |
| D．Food is quite different between life today and life in ancient times. |
| A．milk and other dairy products |
| B．grain food and farm animals |
| C．salt and sugar |
| D．wild animals, fresh wild vegetables and fruit |
【推荐3】For years, research has linked skipping breakfast with increased BMI (body mass index), but few studies have been carried out into the effect of the other meals of the day.
However, a study conducted at Osaka University concluded that not eating dinner is a significant predictor of weight gain and obesity.
These results suggest that skipping dinner, which was much less popular than skipping breakfast, could result in weight gain and a higher likelihood of being overweight than skipping breakfast. It was significantly associated with weight gain of 10% or more, and having a BMI over 25, which is classed as overweight or obese.
The researchers suggested that the reason why skipping dinner could lead to weight gain is that it makes people hungrier so they end up eating more over the course of the day.
The researchers note that their study had drawbacks:
| A．BMI has its limitations after all. |
| B．Besides, skipping dinner may mean a lower quality diet. |
| C．It should be repeated to assess a wider group of people. |
| D．Skipping lunch was more likely to bring about the same outcomes. |
| E．It followed 20,000 subjects overall above 18 over an average of three years. |
| F．The number of students who said they sometimes skipped dinner was small. |
| G．Students skipping dinner has a stronger association with weight gain and obesity. |
