纪录片《轻松活过101岁》 第05期 冲绳奇迹的源头

But as Okinawans grow older, their levels of DHEA appear to decline at a much slower rate.

随着冲绳人逐渐进入老年，他们的DHEA的下降水平比较慢。

You might think of DHEA as the marker on the clock.

你可能会认为DHEA就象时钟的记号。

Maybe think of it as backward, the clock's gone backward, right?

或许会认为它会回走，时钟望回走，对吗？

You're at 12, it goes to 11, 10, 9, 8... 1.

现在是12点，回到11，10，9，8……1。

When it hits 12 again, life's over, OK?

当指向12点时，生命结束了，是吗？

So Okinawans, their clock runs more slowly.

所以冲绳人的时钟运行得比较慢。

Something about the Okinawan lifestyle is slowing down their ageing clock,

冲绳人的一些生活方式减缓了他们的生物钟，

keeping their levels of crucial hormones¹ higher and their bodies fitter and healthier for longer.

维持了他们较高的荷尔蒙水平，维持了他们长久的健康舒适。

Here we have a society that has... the lowest, it seems, of everything -

这是一个像是什么都是最低的社会……

the longest lifespan, the lowest breast cancer, the lowest prostate cancer,

寿命最长，乳腺癌发病率最低，前列腺癌，

the lowest colon² cancer, the lowest coronary heart disease,

结肠癌发病率最低，冠心病最低，

so those kinds of things fascinate me.

所以这些事情让我着迷。

How could it be low in almost every disease and have this incredibly long lifespan?

怎样才能做到几乎所有的疾病都是最低，而寿命会长得难以置信的呢？

The explanation for this extraordinary phenomenon begins in the most ordinary of places.

首先从最普通的地方着手解释这个特别的现象。

Like every town in Okinawa,

像冲绳所有的小镇一样，

the fruit and vegetable shop in Ogimi lies at the heart of village life.

Ogimi的果蔬店位于乡村的中央。

It's here that Bradley and Craig believe the source of the Okinawan miracle can be traced.

Bradley和Craig认为这是可以探索冲绳奇迹的源头。

These veggies are a type of a sweet potato.

这种素食是一种白薯。

It's called, in the local dialect it's called beni-imo and beni-imo,

它叫做……当地人叫beni-imo，

see that purple, it's a purple sweet potato and that...

看那紫色，这是个紫色的马铃薯……

Oh, look at that purple colour.

啊，紫色的。

The purple really comes out more when you cook it.

烧熟后，更紫。

The key is to get a lot of vegetables that are with... very colourful -

关键是有大量的蔬菜，五颜六色的，

oranges like these carrots here, dark greens and yellow vegetables.

橙色的胡萝卜，深绿的，黄色的蔬菜。

You might think of it as a rainbow diet.

你可能会以为是彩虹餐。

1 hormones   

n. 荷尔蒙，激素 名词hormone的复数形式

参考例句：

• This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body. 这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。
• The adrenals produce a large per cent of a man's sex hormones. 肾上腺分泌人体的大部分性激素。

2 colon   

n.冒号，结肠，直肠

参考例句：

• Here,too,the colon must be followed by a dash.这里也是一样，应当在冒号后加破折号。
• The colon is the locus of a large concentration of bacteria.结肠是大浓度的细菌所在地。