讓你更健康的小道消息：第一部 Fascinating facts on nutrition, exercise and more by permission from Health.com
In the spirit of those addictive, you-know-you’re-reading-them-even-though-you-wish-you-weren’t Facebook notes everywhere, Health.com presents its list of 20 random things you might not know about the human body, nutrition and exercise, sickness and health. Go ahead: Pass it on to your friends.
1. Dogs can smell cancer and low blood sugar. The Pine Street Foundation, a cancer-education and research center in Calif. published a study showing it was possible to train dogs to identify, based on breath samples, which patients had lung and breast cancer. In diabetics, the presence of ketones — substances made by the body during the metabolic process — can be smelled in urine and on the breath when blood sugars are high. Dogs can pick up on other smells that humans can’t when glucose levels drop.
2. Researchers at Cornell University found that people who pass through an entryway near the kitchen tend to eat 15 percent more than those who use the front door.
3. Four out of five doctors in the U.K. don't work out enough. Heavy workloads, lack of time and poor motivation contributed to the lack of exercise.
4. You can't get a tan from your computer screen. The Computer Tan Web site was created as a hoax to raise awareness about skin cancer.
5. Baking soda can whiten teeth, and garlic can help treat athlete's foot.
6. Smokers are four times as likely to report feeling unrested after a night's sleep than nonsmokers. Smokers often experience withdrawal symptoms at night, causing periods of restlessness and waking. Smokers were also 1.69 times likely to develop hearing loss than non-smokers, as smoking may affect antioxidative mechanisms or the blood vessels that feed the auditory system.
7. Eating fruits and vegetables may help the human body make its own aspirin.
Findings from the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry indicate that study participants who received benzoic acid, a natural substance in fruits and vegetables, could make their own salicylic acid. This is the key component that gives aspirin its anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties.
8. Your kitchen sink is dirtier than your bathroom. Bacteria colonies with a total population exceeding 50 million can live on a single dirty sponge. And just think-that's what you use to wipe down countertops, forks and drinking glasses.
9. You're more likely to have a heart attack on a Monday, or up to three days after you've been diagnosed with the flu or a respiratory tract infection. The risk of dying from a heart attack increases by a third during outbreaks of the flu and related respiratory diseases. This was found by researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
10. Vitamins don't seem to help older women guard against cancer or heart disease.
Grammar
The Computer Tan Web site was created as a hoax to raise awareness about skin cancer.
to raise awareness = to bring attention to
These community events raise awareness about HIV prevention.
Many celebrities are trying to raise awareness of children's issues.
Vocabulary
addictive-上瘾 make you have to have something.
These addictive online games not only cost money but they also wasted your precious time.
addictive drugs-嗑药
addicted-Jason has been addicted 上瘾to alcohol since he was young.
metabolic-新陈代谢
Exercising can increase your metabolic rate and help you burn calories quickly.
hoax-布局，玩笑，恶作剧。
The report of a fire at the school turned out to be a hoax.一场恶作剧
*He made a hoax call pretending to be the boss.开了个玩笑。
*I was hoaxed into believing his lies.被糊弄了
restlessness-unrest, body didn't get enough rest or sleep.
withdrawal symptoms- unpleasant, painful feeling, experience of lack of something. it cause by something he does'nt have. Without it he gets some painful symptoms.
auditory system-having to do with your ears and hearing 听觉的，耳朵的系统。
aud-与耳朵听力有关的
*He will have surgery next week to repair his auditory nerve.
antioxidative-anti-oxidant.
anti-inflammation-消炎
diagnose (n)-医生诊断报告 (v)-医生诊断
*The doctor made an initial diagnosis after analyzing the test results.
*So patient was diagnosed with severe depression.
*She was diagnosed with skin cancer last year.
outbreak-爆发，战争得爆发，或疫情的发生（扩散)，
*The outbreak of war caused chaos in the country.
*The outbreak of this highly infectious disease claimed many lives.
glucose-葡萄糖
athlete's foot-feet has fungus and itchy俗称的香港脚
Facebook notes-when friend sent to other friend note, questions or survey.
Chat Room
properties-(property)Real Estate,财产，房地产 here refer to special capability or power, it means its character.属性，特性。
aspirin has anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties. 阿司匹林有消炎止痛的特性或功能。
aspirin has special capability or power in anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving.
aspirin-在英美，阿司匹林非常普遍，已不再是注册商标，所以用小写, Aspirin-在德国或其他国家,阿司匹林还是公司的注册商标。还是要大写。
property of mettle-金属的特性。
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work out (v)-Their marriage don't work out. This idea does not work out.
work out (n)-three meanings :1. exercise, 2. accomplish something, 3. out come.
1. we need to work out a solution to the problem.-解决一个问题
2. The situation is worked out-问题获得解决，产生结果。
3. Didn't work out-失败了。行不通。
Part 2 will be posted in March
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