生活英语|auto-eating 机械进食

Women can munch^{1 their way into a bigger dress size in weeks by auto-eating the calorie equivalent of a Big Mac a day....}

假如天天机械地吃进来等于一个巨无霸汉堡那样多的热量，女性们的身材可以在几周内就加强一号。

Nutritionist Mary Strugar coined the term auto-eating, which presumably means eating without the feeling of actual hunger and perhaps even without being fully^{2 aware of consuming the calories.}

Auto-eating（机械进食）这个词是由营养学家玛丽斯图佳第一提出来的，指毫无饥饿感时的进食，而且进食的时候根本没意识到同时有多少热量被摄入。

Auto-eating may also refer to the kind of eating you do without thinking because the food you're chewing on is so bland^{3, so meek4, your taste buds become indifferent to what's passing over them.}

另外，机械进食也可以指麻木的进食状况，可能由于口中的食物太清淡、太无味，导致味觉系统对食物没任何反应，只不过在机械传送。

According to recent research, it may be something like upset or boredom^{5 and having nothing better to do that makes many women go into the auto-eating mode.}

据最新的研究显示，心情沮丧或无聊、又找不到别的事情做可能是不少女人机械进食是什么原因。