VOA常速英语2019--营养在帮助患者从伤痛或疾病中恢复起关键作用

Nutrition Key in Helping¹ Patients Recover From Injury or Illness

When Monica McComb returned home from the hospital, she didn’t think about nutrition as being essential for a full recovery.

Monica McComb从医院回家时，她并没有想到营养对完全康复是如此重要。 

I was really really weak, you know, I couldn’t even hardly walk without the cane².

我当时真的很虚弱，你知道吗，要是没有手杖，我甚至无法行走。 

McComb didn’t associate her weakness with malnutrition³ until she was evaluated.

在评估身体之前，McComb并没有将她的虚弱与营养不良联系起来。 

Malnutrition is invisible to the eye and therefore it remains⁴ under-diagnosed and under treated.

肉眼观察不到营养不良，因此无法诊断和治疗。 

McComb enrolled⁵ in a home health care program and was given a detailed⁶ nutrition plan.

McComb参加了一个家庭保健计划，并获得了详细的营养计划。 

Most Americans have access to food but one in three patients in home health care are malnourished or have some nutritional⁷ deficiency that puts their health and their recovery at risk.

大多数美国人都可以获得食物，但在家庭保健计划中有三分之一的人营养不良或者有一些营养缺乏，这些会使他们的健康和身体恢复处于危险之中。

Nutrition is not the primary reason why patients usually come to home health.

营养通常不是病人去家庭保健的主要原因。 

However, it is important for us to pay attention to the nutrition to promote their strength and get them recovered quicker.

但是，我们要特别关注营养，以便提升病人的身体素质，使他们恢复得更快。 

Researchers from Abbott and Advocate Health Care wanted to find a way to reduce hospitalizations and promote patient’s health.

Abbott and Advocate Health Care的研究人员想找到减少入院人数、提高病人健康的方法 。  

In a study funded by Abbott, the researchers found that when patients on home health care got education about nutrition, they were nearly 20% less likely to be hospitalized or re-hospitalized in the 90 days after injury or illness.

在Abbott资助的一项研究中，研究人员发现，当家庭保健患者接受营养教育后，他们在受伤或患病后的90天内住院或再住院的可能性降低了近20％。

I’m identifying the patients and malnutrition risk, feeding them with the right nutritional drinks.

我要诊断患者以及其营养不良的风险，为他们提供有效的营养素饮料。 

You are increasing their chances of recovering faster and not going back to the hospital or not going to the hospital in the first place.

您为病人提供了更多恢复健康的机会，而不用再次回医院或根本就不用去医院。 

One of the study’s goals was to create a program that patients could follow on their own.

该研究目标是提供一个使病人跟得上自己情况的计划。 

One reason the patients were educated about nutrition.

原因之一是病人接受了与营养相关的教育。 

And their outcome is so much improved, they have more strength, they heal quicker, they have less fall and they less read-missions.

他们的情况得到了很大的改善，他们的身体变得更加有力、恢复得更快，不再容易滑倒，再入院率也减少了。

The researchers hope other health care programs and hospitals can use the study to help other patients as well.

研究人员希望其他的保健计划和医院也可以利用该研究来帮助其他的病人。 

McCombs says she feels stronger and has more energy than she had at the start of the program.

McCombs说她感觉身体更加强健了，比计划开始之前更有精力了。 

She credits support from the home health nurse and the focus on nutrition for her improved health.

她将身体健康得到提高归功于家庭保健护士的支持和对营养的关注。 

1 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

2 cane   

n.手杖，细长的茎，藤条；v.以杖击，以藤编制的

参考例句：

• This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.这甘蔗既甜又多汁。
• English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.英国小学老师过去常用教鞭打男学生作为惩罚。

3 malnutrition   

n.营养不良

参考例句：

• In Africa, there are a lot of children suffering from severe malnutrition.在非洲有大批严重营养不良的孩子。
• It is a classic case of malnutrition. 这是营养不良的典型病例。

4 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

5 enrolled   

adj.入学登记了的v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的过去式和过去分词 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起

参考例句：

• They have been studying hard from the moment they enrolled. 从入学时起，他们就一直努力学习。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He enrolled with an employment agency for a teaching position. 他在职业介绍所登了记以谋求一个教师的职位。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 detailed   

adj.详细的，详尽的，极注意细节的，完全的

参考例句：

• He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
• A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。

7 nutritional   

adj.营养的，滋养的

参考例句：

• A diet lacking in nutritional value will not keep a person healthy.缺乏营养价值的饮食不能维持人的健康。
• The labels on food products give a lot of information about their nutritional content.食品上的标签提供很多关于营养成分的信息。