Focusing not on the link to obesity
不光关注和肥胖症之间的关系
But the inner relationship between sleep, stress and adiposity
还要关注睡眠 压力和肥胖症之间的内在联系
In predicting biological processes
如何诱发了一系列生物过程
Relevant to obesity-related disease
最终导致与肥胖相关的疾病的产生
And I do a lot of work on the immune system And I will be focusing on inflammation
我对免疫系统开展了大量的研究我还关注炎症
We will get to that in a second
我们会在后面的报告中关注这个问题
And then, the implications of this work
然后介绍一下这项研究工作的意义
And work moving forward
以及今后还有哪些工作
So first, is there a link between stress and obesity?
首先 压力和肥胖之间有联系吗?
In our lives
在我们的生活当中
We kind of intuitively know this to be true
我们直觉感受是两者之间是存在联系的
We know what it feels like to undergo
我们都知道长期和短期处于压力之中
A chronic stressor and acute stressor
是什么感觉
What it does to our physiology
压力会对我们产生哪些生理影响
As far as sympathetic arousal
对我们的交感神经系统产生什么影响
And changes in our endocrine function, changes in our behaviors
如何改变我们的内分泌功能和我们的行为
And you know we do our best to cope with this
我们尽力的去应对这些变化
And one of those mechanisms is potentially by eating
其中一种应对机制可能就是进食
And particular there's a good evidence showing
有证据证明
That we eat more high-fat, high-sugar foods
我们通过吃高脂肪高糖分食物(来缓解压力)
And this is kind of part of our fabric of our culture
而这是由我们的文化决定的
This understanding that
我们认为
There is a relationship between stress and these foods
压力和这些食物之间是存在关系的
And it's certainly not too far beyond that to think
因此你很容易就想到
That might be leading to obesity
这种进食方式会导致肥胖
So is there in fact a link?
那么压力和肥胖之间是不是真的有联系呢?
I mean we believe that this is true
我是说我们感觉联系是存在的
But what does the empirical evidence suggest?
但是是否有实证证据支持这一结论呢?
You know, putting these talks together beginning think harder about how stress is related to obesity
将这些话题放在一起努力思考压力如何与肥胖产生了关系
I was so much shocked
让我感到震惊的是
That kind of how small the literature is on this
对这个问题的研究是如此的少
Particularly, with respect to prospective studies
具体来说 对于前瞻性研究
Meaning that, you know, you measure stress at one time point
研究者会在某一点对压力进行测试
And whether that predicts obesity
然后看压力是否随后导致了肥胖