肥胖者的福音——你再也不需要抗拒“美味”的誘惑了

肥胖者的福音——你再也不需要抗拒“美味”的誘惑了

虞美人·虞說

身為一枚（坨）胖子的我，在生活中深深理解所謂“減肥”是一項(xiàng)多么偉大的事業(yè)——屢戰(zhàn)屢敗，屢敗屢戰(zhàn)。對每個(gè)胖紙而言，簡直可以說是一段可歌可泣的血淚史！

其實(shí)絕大多數(shù)胖子所渴望的，不過是能夠穿上均碼的衣褲，而所謂肌肉真的可有可無（尤其是女生……我們要肌肉干嘛？）。所以運(yùn)動(dòng)減肥遠(yuǎn)沒有節(jié)食減肥來得實(shí)在和有效，可是……美食帶來的誘惑感叫人欲罷不能，欲走還留。

但今天，我要告訴各位胖友，屬于我們的福音來了哦！留下你想要的美味，甩掉討厭的卡路里！因?yàn)椋?span style="color: #800080">想得到美味根本不用吃任何東西。

美國國立衛(wèi)生研究院的味覺神經(jīng)科學(xué)家 Nick Ryba 日前表示，他們已經(jīng)找到了人類味覺享受的根源，就在大腦皮層的某個(gè)區(qū)域（regions of the cortex, where particular fields of neurons represent these different tastes, there's a sweet field, a bitter field, a salty field, etcetera），承載著酸甜苦辣咸等各種味覺觀感。

可這有什么用？別著急，人家還做了一堆小白鼠實(shí)驗(yàn)嘞。

Ryba and his colleagues found that you can actually taste without a tongue at all, simply by stimulating the taste part of the brain—the insular cortex.

They ran the experiment in mice with a special sort of brain implant—a fiber-optic cable that turns neurons on with a pulse of laser light.  And by switching on the bitter sensing part of the brain, they were able to make mice pucker up, as if they were tasting something bitter—even though absolutely nothing bitter was touching the tongues of the mice.

就是不給老鼠吃東東，光給負(fù)責(zé)味覺的大腦皮層通上電，“茲茲”一聲，老鼠就被“苦到”啦。細(xì)心的同學(xué)看到托福聽力的加試詞匯--神經(jīng)元細(xì)胞“neuron”了沒有？原來神經(jīng)元細(xì)胞也可以被 turn on 哦。那么下次，同學(xué)們說自己的感覺來了，就可以跟打啵兒中的男女朋友講“You are turning me on”了，對方一定會被 flatter 到哦！

這個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn)可是苦到小老鼠咯！不過不要緊，接下來，科學(xué)家們會用事實(shí)來告訴我們，什么叫做物質(zhì)決定意識。

In another experiment, the researchers fed the mice a bitter flavoring on their tongues—but then made it more palatable by switching on the sweet zone of the brain. （palatable, SAT 必備詞匯哦，它是美味可口、令人愉悅的意思�。�

What we were doing here was adding the sweetness, but only adding it in the brain, not in what we were giving to the mouse.  Think adding sugar to your coffee—but doing it only in your mind. 

哇！此處有亮點(diǎn)有沒有？原來一邊喝著中藥，一邊用電流刺激一下大腦皮層的甜味區(qū)，就可以喝出星巴克的趕腳哦！

各位胖紙戰(zhàn)友們，看到?jīng)]有？以后大家抵擋不住美味誘惑時(shí)，不妨帶上一頂帽子，里面布滿小開關(guān)，然后用你的手機(jī)點(diǎn)上一道免費(fèi)牛扒，瞬間就可以感受到滿嘴流油的滋味咯！今天看來還是 science fiction 的事情，在科學(xué)家看來，可是分分鐘搞定的哦！

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