午夜零食严重损害牙齿

时间：2010-06-02 06:58:19

（单词翻译:单击）

Eating food in the middle of the night can seriously damage your teeth, experts warn.

专家警告，在午夜吃东西可严重损伤牙齿。

Midnight snacks may stick to the teeth for longer, experts suspect
Midnight snacks may stick to the teeth for longer, experts suspect

Researchers have found midnight snacking ups the risk of tooth loss, regardless of the type of food that is eaten.

The Danish investigators1 blame changes in saliva2（唾液） flow - it tends to dry up at night.

Enough saliva is important to remove food debris（碎片，残骸） from the mouth, they explain in Eating Behaviours journal.

Night nibbles3

Working with colleagues from the US, the team at Copenhagen University examined the medical records of 2,217 Danes already enrolled4 in a medical study.

Of these 173, or 8%, could be classed as nocturnal（夜间的） eaters - meaning they consumed a quarter or more of their daily calories after dinner or would wake up in the middle of the night at least twice a week for a little moonlight snack.

When the researchers tracked what happened to all of the study participants over a period of six years, a significant finding emerged.

The nocturnal eaters ended up losing more teeth, even after accounting5 for other factors such as age, smoking and sugar/carbohydrate（碳水化合物） consumption.

While dentists may not be able to stop their patients feasting in the middle of the night, Dr Jennifer Lundgren and colleagues say they should make them aware of the associated risks.

"Practitioners6 should be aware of the oral health implications（含义，启示） of nocturnal eating, increase screening and oral health education efforts among nocturnal eaters and make treatment referrals when appropriate（适当的） ," they say.

Professor Damien Walmsley, scientific adviser7 to the British Dental Association, said: "Eating at night, when the mouth is driest and any food remains8 in the mouth longer, accentuates9（强调） the impact of consuming sugary and acidic（酸性的） food and drinks.

"To minimise damage, it is important to brush teeth twice a day with fluoride（氟化物） toothpaste, with one of those brushes coming immediately before bedtime.

"Where possible, consume only water for at least an hour before the final brush of the day."


分享到：


点击收听单词发音收听单词发音  

1 investigators e970f9140785518a87fc81641b7c89f7     
n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 saliva 6Cdz0     
n.唾液，口水
参考例句：
  • He wiped a dribble of saliva from his chin.他擦掉了下巴上的几滴口水。
  • Saliva dribbled from the baby's mouth.唾液从婴儿的嘴里流了出来。
3 nibbles f81d2db2a657fa0c150c0a63a561c200     
vt.& vi.啃，一点一点地咬（nibble的第三人称单数形式）
参考例句：
  • A fish nibbles at the bait. 一条鱼在轻轻地啃鱼饵。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Units of four bits are sometimes referred to as nibbles. 有时将四位数字组成的单元叫做半字节。 来自辞典例句
4 enrolled ff7af27948b380bff5d583359796d3c8     
adj.入学登记了的v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的过去式和过去分词 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起
参考例句：
  • They have been studying hard from the moment they enrolled. 从入学时起，他们就一直努力学习。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He enrolled with an employment agency for a teaching position. 他在职业介绍所登了记以谋求一个教师的职位。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 accounting nzSzsY     
n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表
参考例句：
  • A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
  • There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。
6 practitioners 4f6cea6bb06753de69fd05e8adbf90a8     
n.习艺者，实习者( practitioner的名词复数 )；从业者（尤指医师）
参考例句：
  • one of the greatest practitioners of science fiction 最了不起的科幻小说家之一
  • The technique is experimental, but the list of its practitioners is growing. 这种技术是试验性的，但是采用它的人正在增加。 来自辞典例句
7 adviser HznziU     
n.劝告者，顾问
参考例句：
  • They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
8 remains 1kMzTy     
n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹
参考例句：
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
9 accentuates e4b33fa9b42331305ce25fbde1d8b3ba     
v.重读( accentuate的第三人称单数 )；使突出；使恶化；加重音符号于
参考例句：
  • The dark frame accentuates the brightness of the picture. 深色画框更显出画的明亮色彩。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Her sunburnt skin accentuates the fairness of her hair. 她那晒黑了的皮肤突出了她的一头金发。 来自《简明英汉词典》

©2005-2010英文阅读网