如何让你的另一半也动起来_BEC初级作文

如何让你的另一半也动起来

为人父母是让计划好的运动时间大大缩水的最强力因素。在近年来的一些研究中，科学家们发现，与无子女的女性相比，哪怕成为一个孩子的母亲也会让她们的运动时间大为减少，但是她们完成的轻度活动，如烹饪、打扫卫生以及追在蹒跚学步的孩子后面跑等等行为要比没有孩子的女性多——这倒也不足为奇。而独生孩子的父亲的运动量与成为父亲前没什么两样，不过一旦孩子的数量超过两个，他们正正经经地做运动的时间就会迅速地大幅下降。

There has been surprisingly little examination, however, of how marriage affects exercise in the years after a couple’s children have grown, and especially whether and how changes in one spouse’s exercise routine at that point affect the other spouse.

然而，关于子女长大多年以后婚姻会如何影响夫妻两人的运动情况，尤其是此时其中一方的运动习惯的改变能否以及将如何影响配偶，研究却少得惊人。

So, for the new study, which was presented this month at a scientific meeting of the American Heart Association in Baltimore, researchers from Johns Hopkins University and other institutions turned to data from the large-scale Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, which includes answers to health-related questionnaires from thousands of middle-aged American adults. Most of the participants answered the questionnaires multiple times, beginning in the late 1980s.