Let's say, just say that you're wanting to change your own diet to improve your health.

比如说,你想改变自己的饮食习惯,使自己更健康

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But the idea is to try to present to you what's exciting about Biomedical Engineering, the ways that one can take science and mathematics and apply that to improve human health.

这门课力图向你们展示,生物医学工程那激动人心之处,它融合了自然科学和数学,并用其成果提高人类健康水平

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But it's also helpful to think just for health and well-being in general, what might be done to improve the diet and this will be a good way to try to get at that.

但如果出于健康考虑,想想如何能改善饮食,也是很有益处的,这次的作业就是一个改善饮食的好方式

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Well you could stretch it and say that an example of engineering to improve human health is getting them from one place to another, but that would be more of a stretch than I'm going to make.

你只能勉强地说,这个工程学成果能通过把人们从一个地方,带到另一个地方来提高人的健康水平,我只能联想到这个程度

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We'll talk about whether food can promote health; of course it can if done right, and we'll talk about the specific properties of food that promote good health and what can be done to increase the opportunity of food to improve the public's health in a national and international way.

我们将讨论食物是否能促进健康,当然,适当的饮食能促进健康,我们还将讨论健康食品的特殊性质,以及我们如何,通过食物来提高,全国乃至全世界公众的健康水平

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