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Dr. David Spiegelhalter， a statistician at the University of Cambridge， says that it’s not the occasional indulgence but consistent over-eating of certain foods that can impact your longevity. Calculating that the average life spans about 80 years， he divided that time up for adults 35 and older into nearly a million half hours， and assigned each 30 minute period to be 1 microlife. Each microlife is about one millionth of life expectancy after age 35. 剑桥大学统计学家大卫？斯皮格尔特博士表示，真正影响你长寿的不是偶尔过量食用某些食物，而是长期过量食用。在预计平均寿命约为80岁的前提下，他把35岁及以上人群的余下寿命分成了约100万个30分钟时间段，然后把每个30分钟称为一个“微生命”。也就是说，35岁以后，每一个微生命就是你寿命的一百万分之一。 Smoking eats up approximately 10 microlives for every 20 cigarettes smoked — or about 15 fewer minutes of life expectancy per cigarette. 吸烟时，每吸20支烟就会大概消耗10个微生命；或者说，每支烟会让寿命减少15分钟。 Averaged over a lifetime， the following habits are linked to the loss of one microlife： smoking two cigarettes， eating a burger， being roughly 11 pounds overweight， chugging a second or third alcoholic beverage， and watching two hours of television. 按一生的平均水平来算，以下行为会导致一个微生命的丧失：吸两支烟，吃一个汉堡，超重11磅，喝下第二或第三杯酒饮，以及看两小时电视。 | 
