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Last week, YouGov released new polling on the economy, conducted for the Economist, that shows both the predictable partisan divide on the subject and, at times, how views of key economic issues have flipped / over the past year.

上周YouGov發布了受《經濟學人》委託而進行的一項新的經濟調查，結果顯示了兩黨在這一問題上的可預見性分歧，以及在過去的一年中，人們對經濟關鍵問題的看法發生的某些轉變。

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People who work night shifts may be able to avoid the resulting harm to their blood sugar control by eating only in the daytime. A small trial in people who simulated a night-working pattern by staying awake all night found that those who ate only between 7am and 7pm had normal blood sugar regulation after a single test meal. In this regimen, people woke up during the day to eat, but abstained from food during night-shift hours. But those who ate some meals at night, as is common in people who work night shifts, had worse blood sugar control.

The body tries to keep blood sugar within a certain range, as high blood sugar damages blood vessels, but if levels gets too low, cells go short of energy. Poor blood sugar control can progress totype 2 diabetes, which usually needs managing with diet and medications and can lead to heart disease.

Previous work has found thatnight-shift workers are more prone to poor blood sugar control and type 2 diabetes. SoFrank Scheerat Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues wondered if they could counteract the effects on blood sugar by keeping eating patterns more aligned with people’s normal 「body clock」.

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Most night-shift workers wouldn’t like to wake up in the day to eat meals, says Scheer, so his group is going to test a new regime, in which people fit in all their food immediately before and after sleeping, while still keeping meals to between 7am and 7pm. 「The next step is to develop a more practical meal schedule,」 he says.

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While it could be unpleasant to work all night without a meal, says Scheer, it may help to instead eat just small amounts at night and avoid carbohydrate-rich food that raises blood sugar quickly. Jonathan Cedernaesat Uppsala University in Sweden says that while the results are interesting, 「we don’t know based on this data how these metabolic outcomes would change if someone was in a fixed night-time schedule for a week」.

本文節選自：New Science（新科學家）

發布時間：2021.12.04

作者：Clare Wilson

原文標題：Night-shift workers who eat only in the day may cut diabetes risk

1.regimen

英[ˈredʒɪmən]美[ˈredʒɪmən]

n.養生;養生之道;生活規則;

2.align

英[əˈlaɪn]美[əˈlaɪn]

v.排列;校準;排整齊;(尤指)使成一條直線;使一致;

3.metabolic

英[ˌmetəˈbɒlɪk]美[ˌmetəˈbɑːlɪk]

adj.代謝的;新陳代謝的;

1.abstain from food 絕食；禁食

2.go short of 缺乏

The body tries to keep blood sugar within a certain range, as high blood sugar damages blood vessels, but if levels gets too low, cellsgo short ofenergy.

結構:sb. tries to keep sth. within a certain range.

某人嘗試將某事控制在一定範圍內

例句:Insurance companies try to keep compensation rate within a certain range.

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