The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place
减肥区：危险之地
Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically.
减肥可乐、减肥百事、减肥药、无脂食物、素食……“减肥”这个词随处可见，随处可听。我们很容易被减肥产品的前景和潜力所吸引，以至于我们不再思考减肥产品对我们有什么影响。我们正在为那些在心理和身体上伤害我们的产品买单。
Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.
减肥产品在心理上极大地削弱了我们。在某种程度上，我们不允许我们的大脑承认我们的体重问题不在于减肥，而在于控制脂肪、高热量、不健康食物的摄入。减肥产品让我们跳过思考阶段，直接用秤代替。我们所要做的就是吞下或识别食品标签上的“减肥”一词。
On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don’t have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.
另一层面，减肥产品有更大的心理影响。每次我们喝了一杯零卡路里的饮料，我们都在不知不觉中告诉自己，我们不需要努力就能得到成果。减肥产品让人们相信，没有痛苦就有收获，生活可以没有阻力和斗争。
The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients. Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.
减肥产品的危险不仅在于它们影响我们的心理，还会对我们的身体造成伤害。减肥食品可能会间接损害我们的身体，因为食用它们而不是健康食品意味着我们正在让我们的身体缺乏基本营养。减肥食品和减肥药零卡路里，这仅仅是因为减肥行业已经发明了用化学物质来生产这些神奇产品。减肥产品可能没有营养，进入减肥产品的化学物质具有潜在危险。
Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using them.
现在我们已经意识到减肥产品对我们的影响，购买时应该认真考虑了。减肥在于思想的力量，而不是化学物质的力量。一旦我们意识到这一点，我们将能够更好地抵制减肥产品，从而避免使用它们带来的心理伤害。
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