Chicken Soup for the Soul: Comfort Food Fights Loneliness
Mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, may be bad for your arteries, ____1____ according to a study in Psychological Science, they’re good for your heart and____2____. “comfort food1 ” and how it makes people feel.
“For me____3____, food has always played a big role in my family”, says Jordan Troisi, a graduate student2 at the University of Buffalo3，and lead author4 on the study. The study came out of the research program of his co-author Shira Gabriel. It has____4____ non-human things that may affect human emotions. Some people reduce loneliness by bonding with their____5____ TV show, building virtual relationships with a pop song singer or looking at pictures of loved ones. Troisi and Gabriel wondered if comfort food could have the same effect____6____ making people think of their nearest and dearest5.
In one experiment, in order to make____7____ feel lonely, the researchers had them write for six minutes about a fight with someone close to them. Others were given an emotionally neutral writing assignment. Then, some people in each____8____ wrote about the experience of eating a comfort food and others wrote about eating a new food. ____9____ the researchers had participants____10____ questions about their levels of loneliness6.
Writing about a fight with a close person made people feel lonely. But people who were generally____11____ in their relationships would feel less lonely by writing about a comfort food. “We have found that comfort foods are consistently associated with those close to us,” says Troisi. u Thinking about or consuming these foods later then serves as a reminder of those close others.” In ____12____ essays on comfort food, many people wrote about the____13____ of eating food with family and friends.
In another experiment,____14____ chicken soup in the lab made people think more about relationships, but only if7 they considered chicken soup to be a comfort food. This was a question they had been asked long before the experiment, along with many other questions, so they wouldn’t remember it.
Throughout everyone’s daily lives8 they experience stress, often associated with our ____15____ with others, “Troisi says. ‘‘Comfort food can be an easy remedy for loneliness.
詞匯：
mashed 被搗成糊漿的 macaroni 通心粉
cheese 奶酪 artery 動脈
assignment 指定作業(yè) reminder 起提醒作用的東西
remedy 治療方法，藥物 virtual 虛擬的
注釋：
1.comfort food：爽心食品
2.graduate student：研究生
3.The University of Buffalo：布法羅大學(xué)，建校于1846年，位于水牛城(Buffalo City)，屬于紐約州立大學(xué)，因此稱為紐約州立大學(xué)水牛城分校。
4.lead author：首席作者
5.their nearest and dearest：他們最接近和最親愛的人
6.levels of loneliness：孤獨程度
7.only if：只有(在……情況下)
8.Throughout everyone’s daily lives：在每一個人的日常生活中。through有“貫穿”的意思。
練習(xí)：
1.A but B if C though D while
2.A personality B movement C emotions D will
3.A privately B usefully C awfully D personally
4.A looked for B looked at C looked after D looked up
5.A favorite B trustful C boring D annoying
6.A with B on C by D at
7.A professors B participants C assistants D scientists
8.A group B class C section D part
9.A Previously B Formally C Initially D Finally
10.A remember B explain C rewrite D complete
11.A sad B secure C shy D angry
12.A your B our C his D their
13.A accident B harm C experience D model
14.A eating B exchanging C buying D keeping
15.A expressions B estimation C cooperation D connections