孤独是一种病比肥胖更可怕_BEC初级作文

孤独是一种病比肥胖更可怕

Cacioppo’s research has also shown that the danger signals activated in the brain by loneliness affect the production of white blood cells; this can impair the immune system’s ability to fight infections.

卡奇奥波的研究还显示，脑部受孤独感刺激所释放出的警示讯号会影响白细胞的生成，而这有可能损及免疫系统对抗感染的能力。

It is only in the past several years that loneliness been examined through a medical, rather than psychological or sociological, lens. Perissinotto, the University of California, San Francisco geriatrician, decided to study loneliness when she began to sense there were factors affecting her patients’ health that she was missing.

人们透过医学而非心理学或社会学的角度研究孤独感，不过是近几年的事。前面提到的老龄医学医师佩里西诺托决定要投入孤独感的研究，是因为她开始觉得有些因素在影响她的病人的健康状况，但她却不知是什么。

Although plenty of research into loneliness takes place in the United States, Britain remains well ahead in addressing the problem.

虽然有很多孤独感的研究是在美国做的，不过在应对这个问题方面，英国还是领先许多。

“In the U.S., there isn’t much recognition in terms of public health initiatives or the average person recognizing that loneliness has to do with health,” said Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a professor of psychology at Brigham Young University, whose studies also link loneliness to deteriorating health.