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STRESS
压力
It's not just in your mind: Researchers believe stress levels really are rising. People who are overweight or inactive experience more stress than others, and that now applies to the majority. Insufficient sleep increases stress, and Americans now sleep on average only seven hours a night, versus eight hours for our parents'generation and 10 hours for our great-grandparents.
这不只是你的感觉：研究者认为压力水平确实在上升。体重超标或者不活动的人会比别人感受到更大的压力，而这一点现在适用于大多数人。睡眠不足会增加压力。现在美国人平均每晚只睡7个小时，而我们父母那一代睡8个小时，曾祖父母那代睡10个小时。
Research by Bruce McEwen, a neuroendocrinologist at Rockefeller University in New York, suggest that modern stress, in addition to making life unpleasant, can impair immune function—again, canceling out health gains that might otherwise occur.
纽约洛克菲勒大学的神经内分泌学家布鲁斯•麦克尤恩的研究表明，现代的压力除了让生活变得不愉快以外，还会损害免疫功能——再次抵消本应该出现的健康收益。
Prosperity brings many other mixed blessings. Living standards keep rising, but so does incidence of clinical depression. Cellphones are convenient, but make it impossible to escape from office calls. E-mail is cheap and fast, if you don't mind deleting hundreds of spam messages. The Internet and cable television improve communication, but deluge us with the junkiest aspects of culture.
繁荣兴旺带来很多其他喜忧参半的事情。生活水平不断提高，而临床忧郁症的发生率也在日益增加；手机十分便利，却也使人们不能摆脱办公电话；如果你不介意要删除数百封垃圾邮件，那么电子邮件又便宜又快；互联网和有线电视可促进交流，却让我们淹没在垃圾文化中。
