2016年、新年の抱負は? ー weight cycling

新年明けましておめでとうございます。2016年がスタートしました。本年もえいご1日1語をよろしくお願い申し上げます。

ところで、今年の抱負は何ですか?

米国人の多くの人は、痩せること、つまり体重減少を目標に立てるようです。しかしながら、これほど挫折する確率が高い抱負も無いという統計があるのも事実です。


Lose weight: Year after year, it's America's No. 1 resolution. Maybe it's yours.

But, as you probably know all too well, most weight-loss resolutions end up broken. Research from the University of Scranton suggests that one-third of people who ring in the New Year with resolutions throw in the towel by February. Meanwhile, a quarter of resolvers don't even make it a full week. But experts say that perhaps willpower isn't the problem. Making a resolution to lose weight in the first place is.

"A lot of people in the health and wellness industry have known this for a long time – that diets and resolutions to lose weight don't work for the vast majority of people," says Michelle May, physician and author of "Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat." "Rather, dieting or focusing on weight loss leads to weight cycling and long-term weight gain."
(K. Aleisha Fetters. Why You Shouldn't Resolve to Lose Weight This Year. US News & World Report. December 31, 2015.)


さて、引用の最後の段落で、


weight cycling


という興味深い表現が出てきます。

以前に取り上げたことがある、yo-yo dietという表現を覚えておられるでしょうか?

weight cyclingはほぼ同じ意味で使われており、体重が少し減ってはまた増えを繰り返すことを言います。

要は長続きしない、ということなのです。

既に新年の抱負を立ててしまった方には申し訳ありません。