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Weight Worries May Start Early for Slim Women

There is a range of reasons1 why thin women think they’re too heavy, but the distorted body image may often have its roots in childhood, the results of a new study suggest.

Researchers found that among more than 2,400 thin women they surveyed, nearly 10 percent thought they were too heavy. 1

According to the study authors, led by Dr. Susanne Kruger Kjaer of the Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, society’s "ideal" female body is moving toward an underweight physique. 2

To investigate body image among thin women, the researchers gave questionnaires to 2,443 women ages 27 to 38 whose body mass index2 was at the low end of normal3. 3

Overall, almost 10 percent of the women thought they were too heavy. Those who reported certain "severe life events" in childhood or adolescence, such as having a parent become ill or having their educational hopes dashed, were more likely than others to have a distorted body image. 4

In contrast, traumatic events in adulthood, such as serious illness or significant marital problems, were not related to poor body image, the researchers report. 5

詞匯：

distort vt.扭曲,歪曲

Danish adj.丹麥的

underweight adj.重量不足的

physique n.體形

questionnaire n.調(diào)查表

dash vt.使(希望、計劃等)破滅,挫敗

traumatic adj.使人不快的,令人痛苦而難忘的

adulthood n.成年

marital adj.婚姻的;夫婦間的

注釋：

1.a range of reasons ：一系列原因

2.body mass index：體質(zhì)指數(shù)

3.at the low end of normal：正常值的下限

4.The same was true of...：……也同樣如此

練習(xí)：

A. The same was true of4 women who started having sex or drinking alcohol when they were younger than 15 years old.

B. Experiences in childhood, including having an ill parent, or starting to drink or have sex at a particularly young age, were among the risk factors for having a distorted body image.

C. "Our results indicate that the risk of being dissatisfied with (one’s) own body weight may be established early in life," Kjaer and her colleagues write.

D. Research suggests that many normal-weight women wish to weigh less.

E. If worries have altered your appetite or weight, it will help to talk to someone about it.

F. The women were asked about factors ranging from childhood experiences to current exercise habits.

答案與題解：

1.B 文章第一段已經(jīng)提到,使身體瘦削的女性自認為身體肥胖的原因有很多,但一項新的研究表明,對身體形象所存有的不正確的態(tài)度有可能與兒時的經(jīng)歷有關(guān)。文章的第二段是對第一段內(nèi)容的進一步展開與細化。

2D 本空的前一句講到,體重不達標(biāo)逐漸被普遍視為“理想的”女性身材。因此,“研究者指出,許多體重正常的女性希望體重再輕些”作為接下來的一句是十分合適的。

3.F 本空之前的一句提到,調(diào)查是以問卷形式進行的。因此,接下來的一句應(yīng)涉及問卷的內(nèi)容。

4.A 文章的第二段已經(jīng)提到,對身體形象存有不正確的態(tài)度是與兒時的經(jīng)歷有關(guān)的,其中包括:父親或者母親生病,或是年幼時便開始酗酒或是過性生活。空格之前的一句提到了兒時經(jīng)歷父親或是母親生病,接下來的句子肯定涉及年幼時便開始酗酒或是過性生活的經(jīng)歷。

5.C 文章的最后一句是對研究結(jié)果的重述。

譯文：身材苗條的女性可能很早就為體重發(fā)愁

身材瘦削的女性自認為身體肥胖的原因有很多，但是一項新析研究表明態(tài)度通常與童年的經(jīng)歷有關(guān)。

研究者發(fā)現(xiàn)在他們調(diào)查的2，400名身材瘦削的女性中，有將近10%的人認為她們太重了。童年的經(jīng)歷有可能造成對身體形象存有不正確的態(tài)度，其中包括：父親或者母親生病，或是年幼時便開始酗酒或是過性生活。

以哥本哈根丹麥癌癥協(xié)會的Susanne Kruger Kjaer博士為首的研究者認為,社會認為的“理想”女性身材趨向偏瘦型身材。研究者指出，很多體重正常的女性希望體重再減輕—些。

為了調(diào)查身材瘦削女性心目中的身體形象，研究者給2,443名27歲到38歲、體重指數(shù)在正常值下限的女性發(fā)放了問卷。這些女性被問及從童年經(jīng)歷到目前的運動習(xí)慣等因素。

總的來說，大約10%的女性認為她們太胖了。那些童年或青少年時代經(jīng)歷過某種”嚴(yán)重的生活事件”的人更容易對身體形象存有不正確的態(tài)度，這些事件如父親或者母親生病或受教育的希望破滅。那些還不到15歲就有性生活或開始酗酒的女性也同樣如此。

與此形成對照的是，研究者報告說，成年后的痛苦事件，例如嚴(yán)重的疾病或嚴(yán)重的婚姻問題，與不正確的身體形象觀無關(guān)。加爾和她的同事們寫道：“我們的研究結(jié)果表明，對自己體型的不滿可能在人生根早的時候就產(chǎn)生了。”