‘Tis the season when many of us ______1______: we see food and we eat it. But if you want to avoid ______2______, a new study suggests that you should spend more time thinking about food. Because the more of a thing you imagine eating, the less you’ll actually eat.
Common sense suggests that _____3____ is not the best idea. Once you picture a piece of pecan pie, chances are you’ll go out and get some. But what if you did more than give the pie or cookie or candy a passing thought? What if you mentally ate your fill?
To find out, scientists had people imagine eating M&Ms. Thirty-three of them. One after another. They asked a second group to imagine an activity that was equally repetitive, but less filling: pumping 33 quarters into a clothes dryer. Then they put out a bowl of M&Ms.
Sure enough, people who’d already _____4_____ M&Ms in their mind ate fewer than the folks who’d been doing their mental laundry. The results appear in the journal Science.
So when visions of Haagen-Daz dance through your head, don’t think twice. Just pull up an imaginary spoon. And don’t _____5_____ the fantasy hot fudge.
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幻想減肥法 吃海鮮的季節(jié)來到了：我們無法抵擋面前美味的誘惑。但你若想保持身材——根據(jù)一項最新研究——你應(yīng)該花更多的時間來想想美食。因為某種食物在你想象中吃下的越多，你實際上就會吃得越少。 生活經(jīng)驗告訴我們，"畫餅充饑"可不是最佳選擇。當(dāng)你的腦海里浮現(xiàn)出一塊核桃派時，你很可能去找一些來吃了。 但如果你不僅僅是讓那些派、餅干或糖果從腦海里轉(zhuǎn)瞬即逝呢？如果你讓自己在想象中大飽口福一番，又會怎樣呢？ 為了找到答案，科學(xué)家讓實驗者想象自己在吃MM豆：一連吃下33顆MM豆。對于第二組實驗者，科學(xué)家要求他們想像一個同樣反復(fù)但不能填肚子的行為：給干洗機(jī)連續(xù)投入33次硬幣。之后他們拿出一碗MM豆，讓參與者享用。 果然，那些已經(jīng)在想象中吃夠了MM豆的人比那些想像洗衣的人要吃得少。此項研究結(jié)果發(fā)表在《科學(xué)》雜志上。 所以當(dāng)哈根達(dá)斯在你腦海中閃過時，不要三思而行。趕緊想像你已拿起勺子，---別舍不得---大口享用那幻想中的巧克力圣代吧。