Now, people are studying obese subjects because there're weight loss programs, like the one we had, and the subjects are available.

现在人们开始以肥胖者为实验对象,因为有许多减肥的项目,肥胖的实验对象是较容易找到的

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There's the Diet Code, this is the weight loss secrets of Leonardo Da Vinci, and you probably didn't know this, but see?

还有减肥密码,这是达芬奇的减肥秘诀,你可能并不知道这个,我们来看看

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Now, if we look at different approaches to weight loss, there are dozens and dozens of approaches.

如今,有很多方法可以减肥,方法太多了,成千上万

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There's almost always some weight loss book on the best-seller list, and the question is, which of these approaches to dieting works the best?

教人减肥的书总高悬在畅销书排行榜上,问题在于,哪种减肥方法是最有效的

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Unfortunately, weight loss diets don't work very well, and that's one of the reasons why there is always a diet book on the best-seller list.

很不幸,食品减肥的作用不明显,正因为如此,最畅销书榜才总有减肥食品的书上榜

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In this particular study, we took thirty people who enter in a weight loss clinic and we had them estimate the calories in these sort of common foods.

在这个实验中,三十人进入了一家减肥专科门诊,让他们估计一些普通食物中的卡路里

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But also you'd think that if there was a group of people that really had been attending the calories it would be this group, because very few people who come in for weight loss are doing it for the first time, so almost everybody has been on lots of different dietary attempts and somewhere along the line they've been doing calories.

想一想,如果世界上还有一群人,真正关注卡路里的话,那就是肥胖人群,因为那些参加减肥项目的人中,很少有人是第一次参加,几乎人人都进行过多次不同的饮食控制,他们也尝试过计算卡路里减肥

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