如果我们对一个吸烟的人说:吸烟会让你短寿,他可能不会太在意,因为老去以后的事情似乎很遥远。可如果我们说,你每吸一支烟,寿命就会缩短15分钟,他可能会就会有点紧迫感了。把生命分成很小的计算单位来看,或许我们才会学会珍惜。
Dr.
David Spiegelhalter,
a statistician at the University of Cambridge,
says that it’
s not the occasional indulgence but consistent over-
eating of certain foods that can impact your longevity.
Calculating that the average life spans about 80
years,
he divided that time up for adults 35
and older into nearly a million half hours,
and assigned each 30
minute period to be 1
microlife.
Each microlife is about one millionth of life expectancy after age 35.
剑桥大学统计学家大卫?斯皮格尔特博士表示,真正影响你长寿的不是偶尔过量食用某些食物,而是长期过量食用。在预计平均寿命约为80岁的前提下,他把35岁及以上人群的余下寿命分成了约100万个30分钟时间段,然后把每个30分钟称为一个“微生命”。也就是说,35岁以后,每一个微生命就是你寿命的一百万分之一。
Smoking eats up approximately 10
microlives for every 20
cigarettes smoked —
or about 15
fewer minutes of life expectancy per cigarette.
吸烟时,每吸20支烟就会大概消耗10个微生命;或者说,每支烟会让寿命减少15分钟。
Averaged over a lifetime,
the following habits are linked to the loss of one microlife:
smoking two cigarettes,
eating a burger,
being roughly 11
pounds overweight,
chugging a second or third alcoholic beverage,
and watching two hours of television.
按一生的平均水平来算,以下行为会导致一个微生命的丧失:吸两支烟,吃一个汉堡,超重11磅,喝下第二或第三杯酒饮,以及看两小时电视。
On the positive side,
behaviors that can add half hours of life expectancy include:
drinking 2-3
cups of coffee or taking statins,
cholesterol-
lowering drugs (
one microlife),
eating fruits and vegetables (
four microlives),
and working out 20
minutes per day (
two microlives). (
Source:
time.
com)
从另一方面来看,能够帮助增加微生命的行为有:喝2到3杯咖啡或吃降低胆固醇的他汀类药物(1个微生命),吃水果蔬菜(4个微生命),每天锻炼20分钟(2个微生命)。
(实习编辑:于晓伟)
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