by Alvin Powell

翻譯：常青

咖啡
——我們的健康伴侶

by Alvin Powell

翻譯：常青

How Coffee Loues Us Back

喜歡喝咖啡的你，讀完這篇短文后，會不會更加愛它呢？哈哈！

Coffee is everywhere, through history and across the world. And gradually, science is1)demonstrating that its popularity is a good thing.

Harvard scientists have for years put coffee under the2)microscope. They found that coffee protects against type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Sanjiv Chopra, a professor of3)medicine at Harvard, frst became aware of the4)potentially powerful protective effects of coffee. He himself makes sure to have several cups a day, and encourages others to do

the same.

A study that accounted for poor lifestyle habits,

found that if people drank at least one cup of coffee

dying from lifestyle-related health problems over a

long time.

However, coffee is a5)complex drink. It’s still

very diffcult to fnd out which6)component of coffee

does good to us.

咖啡無處不在，從古至今，從西到東。漸漸地，科學(xué)研究表明，咖啡如此受歡迎是件好事。

哈佛大學(xué)的科學(xué)家們多年來致力于探究咖啡的奧秘。他們發(fā)現(xiàn)，喝咖啡有助于預(yù)防2型糖尿病和心血管疾病。

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哈佛大學(xué)的醫(yī)學(xué)教授桑吉夫·喬普拉是意識到咖啡中潛藏的強大保護作用的第一人。他確保自己每天都喝上幾杯咖啡，同時他鼓勵其他人也這么做。

一項關(guān)于人們生活陋習(xí)的研究表明，如果人們每天能至少喝上一杯咖啡，那么長此以往，就可以降低死于由生活方式所引起的健康問題的風(fēng)險。

然而，咖啡是一種成分多樣的飲料。目前人們?nèi)噪y以找出究竟是咖啡的哪種成分對我們有好處。

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type 2 diabetes（2型糖尿病），患此病者多肥胖，患者體內(nèi)的胰島素產(chǎn)生過多，但胰島素的作用效果較差，因此患者體內(nèi)的胰島素是一種相對缺乏。此病的常見癥狀是多飲、多食、多尿，以及不明原因的體重下降。

cardiovascular disease（心血管疾?。?，又稱為循環(huán)系統(tǒng)疾病，是一系列涉及循環(huán)系統(tǒng)的疾病。循環(huán)系統(tǒng)指人體內(nèi)運送血液的器官和組織，主要包括心臟、血管。該疾病可以細(xì)分為急性和慢性，一般都與動脈硬化有關(guān)。

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protect against 使免受

become aware of發(fā)覺，意識到

protective effect 防護作用

account for 對……作出解釋或說明

risk of ……的風(fēng)險

die from 死于

do good to 對……有益

1) demonstrate ['dem?nstre?t] v. 證明

2) microscope ['ma?kr?sk??p] n. 顯微鏡

3) medicine ['med?s?n] n. 醫(yī)學(xué)

4) potentially [p?'ten??l?] adv. 潛在地

5) complex ['k?mpleks] adj. 復(fù)雜的

6) component [k?m'p??n?nt] n. 成分