精美英文欣赏:何为强迫型过度饮食症(上)

What Is Compulsive Overeating?

何为强迫型过度饮食症?

Compulsive overeating is a health problem, which can affect women or men, though it appears twice as often among women.

强迫型过度饮食是一个事关健康的问题，男性和女性都有可能患上，但女性患上几率比男性多两倍。

In this serious eating disorder¹, a person eats a lot of food in a short amount of time. This is called bingeing. Compulsive overeaters often binge. This can lead to serious medical problems, including obesity².

在严重的饮食失调下，患者进食多，速度快，即暴食暴饮。强迫型过度饮食者通常暴食暴饮，这样就会引发严重的健康问题，比如肥胖。

Obesity is related to serious medical problems, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes³, trouble breathing and sleep problems.

肥胖会导致很多严重的健康问题，比如心脏病，高血压，糖尿病，呼吸障碍与睡眠问题。

No one knows the exact cause of compulsive overeating. Many compulsive overeaters use food for comfort. Others binge to deal with stress.

没人知道导致强迫型过度饮食症的确切原因。很多患者只是用食物聊以慰藉，另一些人暴饮暴食是为了缓解压力。

Eating makes them feel better, but only for a short time. Usually compulsive overeaters feel guilty for eating so much, which makes them feel bad about themselves.

吃东西能让他们短时间感觉好些。通常，他们暴食暴饮后都会有负罪感，对自己感到非常失望。

This leads to more stress, which leads to more overeating, and so on. It becomes a pattern that is hard to stop.

这样会导致更大的压力，随后会更加暴饮暴食，这样就成了很难改变的死循环。

Overeaters often feel their eating is out of control. Compulsive overeaters also feel they are not in control of their emotions. They have trouble dealing⁵ with feelings like anger, sadness, loneliness, guilt⁴, and shame.

过度饮食者经常觉得在饮食上很难自控，在情绪上也是如此。他们在处理自己类似愤怒，伤心，孤独，负罪感和耻辱等情绪问题上有困难。

There are many warning signs which indicate that someone may be suffering from compulsive overeating disorder.

如果出现下列这些危险信号，就有可能患上强迫型过度饮食症。

They include: eating large amounts of food when not physically⁶ hungry; eating much more rapidly than normal; eating until the point of feeling uncomfortably full;

这些信号包括: 在并不感觉饿的情况下大量进食; 进食速度比正常速度要快很多; 不停进食，直到撑得难受;

often eating alone because of shame or embarrassment⁷; suffering feelings of depression, disgust, or guilt after eating; with a history of marked weight fluctuations⁸.

经常因害羞或者尴尬而独自吃饭; 在暴食暴饮后常有沮丧，厌恶和负罪感; 有体重激增的历史。

1 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。

2 obesity   

n.肥胖，肥大

参考例句：

• One effect of overeating may be obesity.吃得过多能导致肥胖。
• Sugar and fat can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods.糖和脂肪比其他食物更容易导致肥胖。

3 diabetes   

n.糖尿病

参考例句：

• In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者，医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
• Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。

4 guilt   

n.犯罪；内疚；过失，罪责

参考例句：

• She tried to cover up her guilt by lying.她企图用谎言掩饰自己的罪行。
• Don't lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.别因为功课责备孩子而使他觉得很内疚。

5 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

6 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

7 embarrassment   

n.尴尬；使人为难的人(事物)；障碍；窘迫

参考例句：

• She could have died away with embarrassment.她窘迫得要死。
• Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.在音乐会上咳嗽真会使人难堪。

8 fluctuations   

波动，涨落，起伏( fluctuation的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He showed the price fluctuations in a statistical table. 他用统计表显示价格的波动。
• There were so many unpredictable fluctuations on the Stock Exchange. 股票市场瞬息万变。