研究:工作時吃東西更容易變胖

Many employees these days eat lunch at their desks, because it seems like a harmless way to cram more work into the day.
現在，許多員工都在辦公桌上吃午餐，因爲這樣可以擠出時間幹更多工作，而且似乎也無甚大礙。

They might not be so casual about it if they knew the habit was helping them pack on extra pounds. A study in the February issue of the Journal of Clinical Nutrition found people who ate while distracted ate more, and felt less full after lunch, than those who focused on eating.
一心多用時，不知不覺地吃東西會讓我們變胖。如果他們知道這個習慣會讓他們變得肥胖，可能就不會如此滿不在乎了。《臨牀營養學》（Clinical Nutrition）雜誌二月期上的一篇研究報告稱，與專心吃東西的人相比，吃東西時分心的人會吃得更多，而且在午餐後的飽腹感較低。

Researchers served a nine-item lunch to 44 participants who were split into two groups. One group was asked to eat lunch while playing a computer game of solitaire. The second group ate lunch without distractions.
研究人員將44名參與者分爲兩組，讓他們吃了一頓含有九種食物的午餐。他們要求一組在吃飯時玩電腦上的紙牌遊戲，另一組則專心吃飯。

The participants who were distracted by the game felt less full after lunch, according to the study, led by Rose E. Oldham-Cooper, a researcher in experimental psychology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Even 30 minutes later, the solitaire-players gobbled down more snacks when they were offered, compared to those who had focused on eating. Worse yet, when researchers asked the participants to remember what they had eaten for lunch, those who had been playing solitaire had a much harder time remembering what they had consumed.
該項研究的主持者、英國布裏斯托爾大學（University of Bristol）的實驗心理學研究員羅斯?E.奧爾德姆-庫珀（Rose E. Oldham-Cooper）稱，分心玩遊戲的參與者在午餐後的飽腹感較低。即使在30分鐘之後，與專心吃飯的人相比，玩紙牌的人吃掉的零食也更多。更糟糕的是，當研究人員要參與者回想他們午餐吃了什麼時，玩紙牌的人要花長得多的時間才能想起來。

The findings may 'help to explain the well-documented association between sedentary screen-time activities and overweight,' the study says. In addition to crowding out physical exercise, working or playing games on a computer may also cause us to gobble down larger amounts of food without thinking about it or even remembering that we have eaten.
該研究稱，這些結論或許“有助於解釋久坐電腦前與超重之間證據充分的關係”。除了擠佔鍛鍊身體的時間以外，在電腦上工作或玩遊戲也可能導致我們不過腦子就吃掉更多食物，甚至記不起我們吃過什麼。

The findings hold true for me. If I make the mistake of putting a bag of chips or a box of crackers on my desk at deadline time, I often pack in the whole thing without even realizing it. If multitasking makes our minds wander from the tasks we think we are getting done, as we have posted in the past, then why should eating be any exception?
這些結論對我來說也成立。如果我錯誤地在工作任務截止期限前把一袋薯片或一盒餅乾放在辦公桌上，就經常會在不知不覺中吃光它們。我們之前的文章中曾有指出，一心多用會讓我們的思維從自己正在做的事情上分心，既然如此，吃東西也不會例外。