Name: 想減肥就得靠運動嗎？帶你瞭解什麼是「運動悖論」！ (We Need to Rethink Exercise – The Workout Paradox)
Uploaded: 2024-07-16T23:26:41.000Z
Duration: 12 min

情態副詞

Losing weight is hard, and unfortunately, your body is sabotaging you every step of the way.

減肥很難，不幸的是，你的身體每一步都在破壞你的減肥計劃。

Your body is a biological machine that follows the laws of thermodynamics and needs energy and raw materials to stay alive, which is why you eat.

你的身體是一臺生物機器，它遵循熱力學定律，需要能量和原材料來維持生命，這就是你進食的原因。

基礎被動語態

The energy from food is measured in calories, and you need a certain amount to power your internal machines.

食物中的能量以卡路里為組織、部門，人體需要一定量的卡路里來驅動體內機器。

Your brain thinks, your heart pumps, your gut digests, your immune system immunes, and you contract your muscles to move around.

你的大腦在思考，心臟在泵血，腸道在消化，免疫系統在免疫，而你則收縮肌肉來活動。

The harder a movement is, the more calories you burn.

動作越難，燃燒的卡路里就越多。

An hour of walking burns about 260 calories, moderate swimming 430, biking 600, running 700.

步行一小時消耗約 260 卡路里，適度游泳消耗 430 卡路里，騎自行車消耗 600 卡路里，跑步消耗 700 卡路里。

If you eat more calories than you burn, your body stores them, mostly in the form of fat.

如果攝入的熱量超過消耗的熱量，身體就會將其儲存起來，大部分以脂肪的形式存在。

One kilogram or two pounds of fat is about 7,000 calories.

一公斤或兩磅脂肪約等於 7000 卡路里。

To lose weight, you have to burn more than you eat, so fat is turned back into energy.

要想減肥，就必須消耗比吃進去的更多的能量，這樣脂肪才能重新轉化為能量。

Eating less, which we'll cover in another video, and burning more, saved by moving around aimlessly, also called working out.

少吃，我們將在另一個視頻中介紹，多消耗，通過漫無目的地走動來節省，這也叫鍛鍊。

We also get told early on that exercising is healthy somehow, so working out should kill two birds with one stone.

我們很早就被告知，鍛鍊身體對健康有益，所以鍛鍊身體應該一舉兩得。

Unfortunately, this doesn't exactly work out.

It's one of these frustrating experiences where you do what you think is right, only to not see the results you deserve.

在這種令人沮喪的經歷中，你做了自己認為正確的事，卻看不到應有的結果。

In reality, exercising is a bad way to burn fat.

實際上，運動並不是燃燒脂肪的好方法。

And, until recently, we fundamentally misunderstood what moving around a lot does to our bodies.

而且，直到最近，我們才從根本上認識到經常走動對身體的影響。

A few years ago, scientists began to compare populations in industrialized societies, which sit a lot, to hunter-gatherer communities, who move around a lot.

幾年前，科學家們開始將經常坐著的工業化社會人口與經常走動的狩獵採集者群體進行比較。

The Hadza people in Tanzania walk an average of 9 kilometers a day to find wild plants and hunt animals, dig for tubers, climb trees for honey, or collect water.

坦尚尼亞的哈德扎人平均每天步行 9 公里，尋找野生植物、捕獵動物、挖掘塊莖、爬樹採蜜或取水。

They can move more in a single day than an office worker in a week.

他們一天的運動量比一個上班族一週的運動量還要大。

So, of course, they burn more calories, right?

所以，它們當然會燃燒更多的卡路里，對嗎？

But it turns out that the Hadza burn the same amount of calories per day as a typical person in an industrialized country.

但事實證明，哈德扎人每天消耗的熱量與工業化國家的普通人相同。

Around 1,900 for women and around 2,600 for men, which doesn't make sense at all.

女性約為 1 900 人，男性約為 2 600 人，這完全不合理。

It's also not their genes, since it's the same for other hunter-gatherer tribes.

這也不是他們的基因，因為其他狩獵採集部落也是如此。

So the confused scientists looked at similar measurements in individual countries.

於是，困惑的科學家們研究了各個國家的類似測量結果。

Active people who work out regularly do burn more than inactive people, but only very little, often as low as 100 calories, the equivalent of a single apple.

經常鍛鍊的活躍人群確實比不活躍人群消耗得多，但也只是很少，通常只有 100 卡路里，相當於一個蘋果的熱量。

For some strange reason, the amount of calories you burn is pretty much unrelated to your lifestyle.

出於某種奇怪的原因，你燃燒的卡路里量與你的生活方式幾乎沒有關係。

Per kilo of body weight, your body has a fixed calorie budget it wants to burn per day.

每公斤體重，人體每天要消耗的卡路里預算是固定的。

Sure, if you want to gain muscles by pumping iron, you also need to eat more to build and sustain them, or your new muscles wither away.

當然，如果你想通過打鐵來增加肌肉，你也需要吃更多的東西來鍛鍊和維持肌肉，否則你的新肌肉就會枯萎。

But in total, your body keeps your calorie budget per unit of you pretty stable.

但總的來說，你的身體會讓你的組織、部門熱量預算保持穩定。

And to make matters worse, if you want to lose fat, your body sabotages you in small and big ways.

更糟糕的是，如果你想減掉脂肪，你的身體會用大大小小的方式來破壞你。

First of all, when you begin to work out regularly, maybe going for a run in the morning, your body may subconsciously make you move less when you don't pay attention.

首先，當你開始有規律地鍛鍊時，也許是早上跑步，你的身體可能會下意識地讓你在不注意的時候減少運動量。

Maybe you take the elevator instead of the stairs, you sit more when you meet your friends, or you sleep longer, largely balancing out your burn again, preventing you from burning much fat.

也許你乘電梯而不走樓梯，也許你見朋友時坐得更久，或者你睡得更久，這在很大程度上又平衡了你的燃燒，使你無法燃燒很多脂肪。

If you do actually change your life after sitting around for years, and suddenly start working out without eating more, this is a shock to your system.

如果你在閒置多年後真的改變了自己的生活，突然開始鍛鍊而不多吃東西，這對你的身體系統是一個衝擊。

You actually do burn more calories and lose fat, so you can lose a few kilos or pounds through exercise.

實際上，你確實可以燃燒更多的卡路里，減少脂肪，是以你可以通過運動減掉幾公斤或幾磅體重。

Your body adapts and burns fewer and fewer extra calories each day, until it restores its original calorie budget.

你的身體會做出調整，每天燃燒的額外熱量越來越少，直到恢復原來的熱量預算。

After a few months, you burn basically the same amount you did when you didn't work out.

幾個月後，你的燃燒量基本與不鍛鍊時相同。

And now we're getting to the actual reason why exercise is healthy.

現在我們來談談運動有益健康的真正原因。

So your body has a hardwired activity budget per day that it wants to stick to.

是以，你的身體每天都有一個硬性的活動預算，它希望堅持下去。

This setting evolved when humans had to move a lot.

這種設置是在人類需要經常移動時演變而來的。

Not because they wanted to, but because they had to find food for survival.

不是因為他們想這樣做，而是因為他們必須找到生存所需的食物。

But when food is abundant and exercise is voluntary, what does your body do with the energy that you're not using to move around?

但是，當食物充足而運動又是自願的時候，你的身體會如何處理你沒有用來活動的能量呢？

We're simplifying a lot here, and this is relatively new science.

我們在這裡簡化了很多東西，而且這是一門相對較新的科學。

But in a nutshell, there are many different systems in your body trying to do their job as well as possible.

但簡而言之，你體內有許多不同的系統，都在努力盡可能地做好自己的工作。

And if there's extra energy, they seem to use it.

如果有多餘的能量，他們似乎會加以利用。

When your immune cells detect injuries or infections, they trigger inflammation.

當免疫細胞檢測到損傷或感染時，就會引發發炎。

Phytocells, alarm chemicals, and fluids flood into your tissue.

植物細胞、警報化學物質和液體湧入你的組織。

This is crucial, but it also causes damage, so it needs to be cleaned up quickly, or it can become chronic.

這一點至關重要，但它也會造成損害，是以需要儘快清理，否則就會變成慢性病。

And chronic inflammation is one of the major contributors to many serious diseases, from cancer to heart failure.

而慢性發炎是導致從癌症到心力衰竭等多種嚴重疾病的主要因素之一。

If your immune system is on a tight budget, it has to be efficient with inflammation.

如果您的免疫系統預算緊張，它就必須高效地應對發炎。

With lots of free calories, though, it overcommits.

不過，有了大量的免費卡路里，它就會過度投入。

Another thing is that your glands produce hormones you don't need, like cortisol, the stress hormone, which triggers your fight-or-flight response.

另外，你的腺體會分泌你不需要的荷爾蒙，比如皮質醇，它是一種壓力荷爾蒙，會引發你的 "戰鬥或逃跑 "反應。

Crucial for survival, but if you have too much of it, you get, well, very stressed all the time.

它對生存至關重要，但如果你擁有太多，你就會變得，嗯，一直非常緊張。

Chronic stress is a major cause for a bouquet of health issues, including your mental state.

長期壓力是導致一系列健康問題的主要原因，包括你的精神狀態。

For our ancestors, who moved a lot and had to deal with sudden bursts of activity, fleeing from a lion, attacking that bison, this cortisol was crucial.

對於我們的祖先來說，他們經常搬家，必須應對突如其來的活動，逃離獅子，攻擊野牛，這種皮質醇至關重要。

But if you live a modern, sedentary lifestyle, your body is ready for action that doesn't happen, hurting itself in the process.

但是，如果你過著久坐不動的現代生活方式，你的身體就會準備好行動，但卻沒有行動，在這個過程中，你的身體會受到傷害。

Your body evolved to move regularly, and is fine-tuned to a certain base level of activity.

身體進化到一定程度就會有規律地運動，並根據一定的基本活動量進行微調。

If this activity is missing, it still uses almost the identical amount of energy, just on stupid stuff.

如果缺少了這項活動，它仍然會消耗幾乎相同的能量，只是用在了愚蠢的事情上。

This is why you burn almost the same amount of calories, whether you work out or not.

這就是為什麼無論你鍛鍊與否，消耗的熱量幾乎相同。

By working out, you're not doing anything extra, you're doing what your body is literally made to do.

通過鍛鍊，你並沒有做任何額外的事情，你只是在做你的身體天生就該做的事情。

Working out is not a magic bullet, but it seems to restore an internal physical balance that seriously affects your body.

健身不是靈丹妙藥，但它似乎能恢復嚴重影響身體的內部生理平衡。

And this is also why regular exercise is so incredibly healthy.

這也是為什麼經常鍛鍊對健康如此重要。

It reduces chronic inflammation and stress, it's good for your heart, may ease depression, and makes you live longer and better.

它能減少慢性發炎和壓力，對心臟有益，還能緩解抑鬱，使人更長壽、更健康。

Movement is not really made to burn your fat, though.

不過，運動並不是真的為了燃燒脂肪。

When your ancestors evolved, they had to work hard for calories.

當你們的祖先進化時，他們必須努力工作以獲取卡路里。

Sometimes it would be easy and they could afford to chill out quite a bit.

有時會很輕鬆，他們也能放鬆不少。

But in hard times, they had to move quite a bit to feed themselves, walk longer to find prey, or dig longer to find tubers.

但在困難時期，它們不得不走很多路來養活自己，走更長的路來尋找獵物，或者挖更長的路來尋找塊莖。

If extra movement burned more calories, this would lead to a spiral of starvation.

如果額外的運動會消耗更多的卡路里，這將導致飢餓的螺旋式上升。

The less food you find, the more energy you need to find food, which doesn't even fill you up because you moved more.

你找到的食物越少，你就需要越多的精力去尋找食物，而這些食物根本無法填飽你的肚子，因為你移動了更多的地方。

It's like taking on more debt when you're in the red.

這就好比你在虧損的情況下還要承擔更多的債務。

It works for a while, but then you go bankrupt and die.

這招能管用一陣子，但隨後你就會破產和死亡。

So, for your ancestors, being able to move a lot without burning extra calories was a matter of life and death.

是以，對於你們的祖先來說，能否在不消耗額外卡路里的情況下大量運動是一個生死攸關的問題。

Okay, but this means the obesity epidemic of the modern world is not primarily caused by laziness, but by overeating.

好吧，但這意味著現代世界肥胖症流行的主要原因不是懶惰，而是暴飲暴食。

Humans evolved to be mad for calories because of our extremely hungry brains and our extremely useless kids.

人類進化到瘋狂追求卡路里，是因為我們有極度飢餓的大腦和極度沒用的孩子。

Kids are cute, but unlike other species, human kids have to be fed and cared for by adults for years before they become even remotely useful.

孩子是可愛的，但與其他物種不同的是，人類的孩子必須由成年人餵養和照顧多年，才能變得稍微有用。

Because the human brain not only eats up about 20% of all our calories at rest, twice as much as our closest ape relatives, it also takes a lot of time to develop through playing, learning, and honing social skills, all the things that make us human.

因為人類的大腦不僅在休息時消耗掉我們全部熱量的 20%，是我們最親近的猿類的兩倍，而且還需要大量的時間通過玩耍、學習和磨練社交技能來發展，所有這些都使我們成為人類。

Our species is so extremely calorie expensive to maintain that we became super efficient calorie harvesters.

我們這個物種的維持需要極其昂貴的卡路里，所以我們成了超級高效的卡路里收割機。

Five hours of human hunter-gatherer foraging yields between 3,000 and 5,000 calories, while our ape relatives get no more than 1,500 at the same time.

人類狩獵-採集五小時可獲得 3000 到 5000 卡路里的熱量，而我們的猿類親屬同時獲得的熱量不超過 1500 卡路里。

And we became so good at calorie harvesting precisely because of our big brains and years of social skill training.

我們之所以如此善於獲取卡路里，正是因為我們的大腦袋和多年的社交技巧訓練。

In a typical ancestral tribe, some members would spend the day searching for plants, others hunting or gathering honey, others nurturing kids.

在一個典型的祖先部落中，一些成員會花一天時間尋找植物，另一些成員會打獵或採蜜，還有一些成員會撫育孩子。

And at the end of the day, we'd share the calories so that no one would end up hungry.

最後，我們會分享卡路里，這樣大家都不會餓肚子。

Being frenetic calorie harvesters seems to be deeply part of what makes us human.

狂熱的卡路里收割者似乎是我們人類的重要組成部分。

這不是一個錯誤，而是一個功能。

But today, it seems as if that feature has turned on us.

但如今，這一功能似乎已經背叛了我們。

We can't stop overproducing food and overeating.

我們無法停止過度生產食物和暴飲暴食。

If you want to lose fat, food is the answer.

如果你想減脂，食物就是答案。

So to conclude, you'll probably not lose nearly as much fat by working out as you hoped, but you will do something more important.

是以，總而言之，你可能不會像你希望的那樣通過鍛鍊減掉那麼多脂肪，但你會做一些更重要的事情。

Give your body balance and make you more resilient, and prevent or delay many of the diseases that will make your life miserable so you can enjoy a higher quality of life for much longer.

讓你的身體保持平衡，使你更有韌性，預防或延緩許多會讓你痛苦一生的疾病，讓你更長久地享受更高質量的生活。

But physical fitness is only half the equation.

To make the most of your long, healthy life, you also need a fit, active mind.

要充分利用健康長壽的生命，您還需要一個健康、活躍的頭腦。

One trained to navigate our fascinating world, and agile enough to solve any problem.

一個訓練有素的人，能夠駕馭我們這個迷人的世界，並能敏捷地解決任何問題。