“Fat shaming” and weight discrimination, be it from your company or your university professor, are not the ways to help people shape up physically, socially, or academically according to a report published this week in the journal PLoS ONE.

　　根据PLoS ONE 期刊本周发布的报告，“肥胖羞辱” 和体重歧视，无论它是来自公司还是你的大学教授，从身体、社交、学术的角度看都不是帮助人减肥的好方法。

　　“Weight discrimination, in addition to being hurtful and demeaning, has real consequences for the individual’s physical health,” says study author Angelina Sutin, a psychologist and assistant professor at the Florida State University College of Medicine in Tallahassee, Fla..

　　“体重歧视，除了伤人自尊、有辱人格外，对个人的身体健康也有不利的影响，” 研究报告的作者安吉丽娜-苏丁说，她是一名心理学家，也是位于弗罗里达州塔拉哈西的弗罗里达州立大学的助理教授。

　　Weight shaming, the study found, can send people to the Twinkie Zone faster than you can say “binge.”

　　研究发现，肥胖羞辱比起你说“大吃大喝”能更快把人送往蛋糕区。

　　Rebecca Puhl, deputy director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, told NBC:

　　丽贝卡是吕德食品政策与肥胖中心的副主任，她对NBC的记者表示：

　　“Stigma and discrimination are really stressors, and, unfortunately, for many people, they’re chronic stressors. And we know that eating is a common reaction to stress and anxiety -- that people often engage in more food consumption or more binge eating in response to stressors, so there is a logical connection here in terms of some of the maladaptive coping strategies to try to deal with the stress of being stigmatized.”

　　“羞辱和歧视实际上能造成压力，不幸的是，对很多人来说，它们是慢性的压力源。我们知道，吃是应对压力和焦虑的一种常见反应——人们应对压力时，经常会吃更多的食物或更容易暴饮暴食， 所以适应不良情况的应对策略，和尝试处理受到歧视产生的压力之间有一定的逻辑关系。”

　　How is it that we didn’t know this by now?

　　为什么我们现在才发现这个事实呢?