西兰花怎样帮助身体应对空气污染_BEC初级作文

西兰花怎样帮助身体应对空气污染

Eat your broccoli, it's good for you. More specifically--and not incidentally if you live in China--it can apparently help your body better deal with air pollution.

吃西兰花吧，它有益于身体健康。如果在中国生活的话，更要吃西兰花了，因为西兰花可以提高机体应对空气污染的能力。

According to a study published this week by the journal Cancer Prevention Research, an experiment conducted in eastern China's Jiangsu province found that feeding villagers beverages concocted from broccoli sprouts had various salutary effects, including helping the body to more speedily eliminate ingested air pollutants. The study was conducted by researchers from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as well as the University of Minnesota's Masonic Cancer Center, among others.

《癌症预防研究》(Cancer Prevention Research)期刊本周发布的一项研究称，在中国东部江苏省进行的一项试验发现，让村民饮用西兰花芽调制的饮料好处多多，其中包括帮助身体更迅速地排除吸入的空气污染物。这项试验是由约翰霍普金斯大学彭博公共卫生学院(John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)和明尼苏达大学(University of Minnesota)的共济会癌症中心(Masonic Cancer Center)的研究人员共同实施的。

The beverage--essentially a tea made out of boiled sprouts--was provided daily for 12 weeks to 291 adults as part of a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Study participants were drawn from the rural township of Hehe in the Yangtze River delta region, an area researchers chose in part because of its heavy levels of air pollution, something that they say is associated with a higher risk for lung and heart disease. Though the delta region, which includes Shanghai, comprises just 2% of China's total area, it contributes at least 15% of its countrywide greenhouse gas emissions, they note.