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Let's say your diet has been not so great.
Maybe too much red meat, especially processed meat.
Maybe too many sugary soft drinks.
And maybe you've been eating like that for decades.
So what's the point of trying to make some healthful changes now, after the damage has presumably been done?
“It is impressive that changes even very late in life,such as even being older and having a heart attack, a dietary change can within a matter of a few months drop our risk greatly of a recurrent heart attack or death.”
Walter Willett. He chairs the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
He spoke at a January 15th forum on Cancer and Diet that wound up touching on diet and health in general.
“So it's never too late to make important changes.
For diabetes also, if we change our diet almost immediately our risk of diabetes goes down.
But that's not to say you just should just wait till you're old to start living a healthy life.
We're seeing in some studies now that what women ate as adolescents, especially if they ate a lot more red meat, that affected breast cancer risk later in their life.
So it's definitely important if you want the healthiest overall life is to start a healthy lifestyle early.
But if you've sort of ignored things it's never too late to still get some benefit.”
The entire hour-long forum featuring Willett and other researchers discussing diet and health is archived on line.
Just google “Harvard public health forum”.

参考译文
我们假设你的饮食习惯不是特别好的状况~eGmuu)mYOUx。
也许摄取太多的红肉，尤其是那些加工过的肉类TSh&1jk%&YpOEeMz[jz。
也许还有很多含糖软饮料*i953zk4A)v^=Xb。

可能几十年来你一直都是这样的饮食习惯=zO#Z(L0Hr#9Lf。
因此既然无形中已经养成这样的坏习惯对身体造成伤害，那现在尝试健康饮食的改变意义在哪里呢?
这样的改变在进入晚年后会产生重大的影响，比如随着岁月流逝身体负担越来越重并且有心脏病困扰，改善饮食可以在数个月内大大降低心脏病复发或死亡的风险tYz~aWd.i3HN2。
哈佛大学公共卫生学院营养系主任沃尔特·维莱特说道!TC[.[8StOPIBAL。
在1月15日关注饮食与健康的“癌症与饮食” 论坛上他这样说道n|izY!rH,.a0~4Z。
“因此亡羊补牢永远不晚)]-=Z#!GTrQsvi4BN。
对于糖尿病而言也是如此，如果改变自己的饮食习惯，我们罹患糖尿病的风险会即刻降低oPi5dk*M)Je90R。
但这并不表明你要等待老年后才要开始健康生活@dz8BY]nL+)。
通过一些研究，我们了解到一些女性在年轻时食用大量红肉，到了晚年就会增加患乳腺癌的风险hA~jR3gK+[n~8[w。
因此如果你想要健康，尽早开始健康的生活方式是绝对重要的M-2Ni~!_wS4U6FkY-GDq。
但如果你经常忽视，现在开始也不晚!”
如想浏览维莱特和其他研究人员就饮食与健康方面的完整讨论内容，
请在搜索引擎当中搜索关键字哈佛公共健康论坛即可dd+9JWXT^^UV&f。

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重点讲解

1.such as 诸如

例句:his was just below much smaller economies such as Tunisia, Albania and Jordan.
这比总规模小得多的经济体如突尼斯、阿尔巴尼亚和约旦还落后1ONRJ,)yBYZHn#o。

2.try to 尝试

例句:I think we should try to buy more time.
我想我们应该设法稽迟时间JWW.Z2l%AT。

3.red meat 羊肉; 红色肉类

例句:The histamine-rich fish have to eat less red meat.
富含组胺的红肉鱼也要少吃T6je3%[Rnl-。

4.soft drink 软饮料

例句:Lemonade is a soft drink.
柠檬水是一种不含酒精的饮料5oi@&MKKMQ.f1w[r8wU;。