Sitting Too Much Ages You By 8 Years 久坐不起讓你老8歲

新聞辭典

• sedentary：形容詞，久坐的，坐慣的。例句：A sedentary person, no matter how busy he is, should take time out for exercise.（一個坐久的人，無論他有多忙，都應該抽出時間運動。）
• premature：形容詞，早熟的，過早的。例句：Babies born before completion of week 37 are premature.（嬰兒在滿37週以前出生算是早產。）
• fray：動詞，使…磨損，使…緊張。例句：His shirt was frayed at the neck.（他的襯衫領口磨損。）

Women who spend too much time sitting down speed up the aging process. Sitting for more than ten hours a day gives women a ’biological age’ up to eight years older than it should be, according to a new study. 花太多時間久坐的婦女會加速老化過程。根據一項新研究，一天久坐超過10小時，將使女性的「生物年齡」較其應有的程度還老8歲之多。

The researchers, who tracked the movements of 1,481 women over the age of 64, found a strong link between a sedentary lifestyle and the premature aging of cells in the body. Women who were more sedentary had shorter and more frayed telomeres, which scientists use to calculate ’biological age’.研究人員追蹤1481名64歲以上婦女的活動，發現久坐生活型態與體內細胞提早老化有強烈關聯。坐更久的婦女擁有較短、更磨損的端粒，科學家使用端粒來計算「生物年齡」。

Telomeres naturally shorten with age, but health and lifestyle factors － such as smoking and obesity － can accelerate the process. Shortened telomeres are linked with heart disease, diabetes and cancer. However, just half an hour of moderate exercise might undo the damage. 端粒會隨著年齡增長自然縮短，但健康及生活型態因素──例如吸菸和肥胖──會加速這個過程。縮短的端粒與心臟病、糖尿病和癌症有關。不過，只要半小時的溫和運動，即可抵消這個損害。

"We found that women who sat longer did not have shorter telomere length if they exercised for at least 30 minutes a day," said lead author Aladdin Shadyab.研究主筆阿拉汀．莎迪耶指出：「我們發現，坐得較久的婦女未必端粒長度會較短，但前提是一天運動至少30分鐘。」

Obsessive cosmetic surgery fan says she’ll never get old 執著的整型手術迷說她永遠不會變老

A doctor injects Botox into smile wrinkles on the bridge of a lady’s nose in Los Angeles, California on Sept. 11, 2009. 一名醫師二００九年九月十一日於加州洛杉磯，在一名女子鼻樑的皺紋上，注射肉毒桿菌。Photo: Bloomberg 照片：彭博社 

Little girls do, in general, grow out of their obsessions with dolls. But Orit Fox never did.

The 34-year-old Israeli model’s ambition is to turn herself into a life-size plastic Barbie doll using cosmetic surgery and hold off aging at the same time.

To do it, she has her plastic surgeon on call 24 hours a day and visits whenever she spots a wrinkle or is feeling less than happy about her looks.

“I like beauty,” she explains. “Visually, I look like Barbie, like a doll. Men love my body. It’s like a dream, a fantasy.”

Orit gained global notoriety in 2012 when a video of her being bitten on the breast by an angry snake during a photo shoot went viral.

Rumors that the snake had died thanks to its silicone-filled snack followed, but according to Orit, the reptile is still alive and none the worse for its 15 minutes of fame.

Orit says she has no plans to wind down her career or her plans for more surgery.

“I cannot stop this obsession to my beauty,” she insists.

Despite the painful nature of most of the procedures, Orit says she is willing to put up with just about anything to keep her looks.

(Liberty Times)

TODAY’S WORDS
今日單字

1. hold off v. phr.

抵擋；拖延 (di2 dang3; tuo1 yan2)

例: We should hold off making a decision until we have enough information.

(我們應該等有足夠資訊再做決定。)

2. none the worse for phr.

不受…影響 (bu2 shou4 … ying2 xiang3)

例: He seems to be none the worse for these setbacks.

(他似乎不因這些挫折而氣餒。)

3. wind down v. phr.

鬆懈；放鬆 (song1 xie4; fang4 song1)

例: You need to wind down a bit.

(你需要稍微放鬆一點。)

小女孩通常因為長大成人而擺脫對玩偶的著迷。但歐瑞特．福克斯從來沒有。

這名三十四歲的以色列模特兒志在藉整型手術將自己變成真人芭比娃娃，抵擋老化腳步。

為了做到這一點，她要她的整型醫師全天待命，只要她發現一絲皺紋或不滿意她的樣貌，就去找整型醫師。

「我喜歡美麗，」她解釋。「在視覺上，我看起來像芭比，像個玩偶。男人喜歡我的身體，它就像是幻想夢境。」

歐瑞特二０一二年因一段她拍照時被一隻蛇怒咬胸部的影片廣為流傳，而名聞全球。

傳言說那隻蛇後來因為吃到她胸部的矽膠填充物而喪命，但根據歐瑞特的說法，那隻蛇還活得好好的，沒有因為短暫紅了一下而付出代價。

歐瑞特說，她不打算結束模特兒生涯，或減少未來的整型手術計畫。

「我停止不了這種對自己美麗的著迷，」她堅持。

儘管手術大都是痛苦的，但歐瑞特說，為了保持容貌，她願意忍受一切。

（自由時報／翻譯：管淑平）