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这一讲的医生Daphne Miller，是美国很有名的结合医学普及者，在很多电视节目中讲过健康知识。著有畅销书《丛林效应》。她有一个巴西病人，在美国肥胖、高血压、高血糖等问题都出现，但回到巴西亚马逊河流域，一切复原，回到美国后病症又出现。丛林是否有什么奇妙的效应呢？这一讲，她代领大家环游世界，到墨西哥铜峡谷、希腊克里特、北国冰岛、西非喀麦隆、日本冲绳岛等地，寻找各种传统饮食和传统文化中的长寿秘诀。
n. 糖果
vt. 用糖煮，使结晶为砂糖
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- But most of the local foods are actually being grown in there and it's very jumbled and wonderfully mixed way. So,
- 大多数当地食品都是在这些菜园生产，什么东西都混在一起生长
- There is many different kinds of what they call jungle spaghetti but it's shredded hearts of palm
- 他们这里有所谓的“丛林面”，也就是弄碎的棕榈心
- And the free range chickens wander around and you pick the bananas and
- 到处是放养的鸡，还有香蕉可摘，
- as a matter fact instead of power bars, what you do is you pick a whole front of bananas and you hang them on your porch, like the picture on the bottom there
- 他们那里的人不吃PowerBar这种零食，而是摘一整串香蕉挂到走廊上，如图所示
- When you get really hungry, that's what you eat for energy instead of your power bar, your candy bars. So
- 饿了要补充能量的时候，他们吃这个而不是PowerBar这类糖果
- This really was the lifestyle there
- 这是那里的生活方式
- And for me, I realized that it had a lot to do with the health, was truly this local diet but it wasn't just the foods itself
- 在我看来，当地这种饮食习惯非常健康而且还不仅是食物
- It was actually the way that they were eaten, the sequence in the day
- 还包括他们的吃法以及顺序
- and the recipes and the spices that were used, and the fact that people ate together
- 食物的做法及香料使用，人们一起吃饭这一事实
- and even the patterns in which they ate and
- 这些都有助于健康
- I've started to become very very interested in really how a whole diet and a whole culture shapes the wellness of the community
- 我开始对此非常感兴趣，想知道一种饮食文化是如何造就健康体质的
- And we talk a lot about this idea of survival of the fittest people
- 我们经常讲适者生存这一概念
- But I really started to think what is it mean to have survival of the fittest diet
- 我开始觉得，这一概念也适用于饮食
- These are diets that were handed down generation after generation from grandmother to granddaughter and so on
- 这些是他们祖祖辈辈传承下来的饮食文化
- Because they tasted delicious but also because they kept people healthy
- 不仅因为美味，还因为健康
- And really there's a lot of reason in this
- 这是非常说得通的
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