自从我码字后，还没赚过一分钱稿费呢。难道我的文字和智慧就这么不值钱吗？我也许可以写字挣钱的，理由如下。我读博士学位时，专业就是研究小麦中的一种碳水化合物，如果把它提纯，加到其它食物中，可以减肥，还可以防止肠癌，肛门癌；另，我长得特别苗。以我这健康食品专业人才，加上苗条外表，人家可以认为我从理论到实践都信得过。咱写本健康食品书，从历史渊源到成份分析，从民俗特产到烹饪技巧，封面再用上我的照片，畅销的可能性很大。
I haven’t ever earned any money from my writing since I started it. Are my writing and my wisdom so worthless? I might be able to earn some cash through writing and the reasons for that are as follows: My PhD project was research on a carbohydrate in wheat grains. This wheat extract can be used as a food additive which helps reduce the weight of consumers and prevent intestinal and bowel cancers. On the other hand, I am slim. Therefore, my professional background in food research together with my healthy figure could help me to be considered as a theoretically and practically trustworthy and respected author. If I wrote a healthy eating book, it should contain a history of food and compound analysis, as well as different customs of using the food in different regions and also healthy cooking skills. Furthermore, the surface of the book should have a photograph of me. This book might be popular.
说畅销的可能性大不是没有根据的。前些年，有本书叫《
r Atkins Diet Planner》，作者是Robert Atkins。这书卖得俏。其主要理论是，减肥要吃高蛋白食品，少吃碳水化合物食品，比如米面，水果，蔬菜。因为碳水化合物让血液中的糖份变化，引起饥饿感。很多人都去吃高蛋白食品，在短期内有很明显的减肥效果，但持久的效果却引起一些病症，如气短，头晕，厌食。
Here is an evidence of the possibility that I may be successful. Several years ago, there was a book entitled "Dr Atkins Diet Planner", written by Dr Robert Atkins. The book was very popular. The main theory is that one must eat more high protein foods and less carbohydrates in order to reduce weight. Carbohydrate foods include rice, flour, fruit, and vegetables. The reasons are that carbohydrates change the sugar level in blood which triggers hunger receptor and so increase a person’s appetite. Many people have tried this diet and successfully reduced their weight. However, in a longer term, this diet has side effects, including shortness of breath, headache and anorexia.
人们为《圣经》的真理性进行激烈争论。支持圣经的代表是基督徒们，不支持圣经的代表人物是Richard Dawkins，著有《The God Delusion》。圣经上有一句话很有意思。耶稣说：我是生命的粮 (I am the bread of life.)。这可是两千年前说的话。我要问了，人只要有吃的，就能活下去，吃什么不行？可以吃肉，水果，蔬菜。可是，耶稣不是肉，不是水果，不是蔬菜，而是粮。粮是什么？粮是麦、稻、玉米、高粱等单子叶作物。红暑土豆都不是粮。耶稣告诉我们粮有多重要，要天天吃粮，粮里有重要成份有利于健康。
The truth of the Bible has been a subject of considerable dispute. The supporters are Christians while the opponents are represented by the likes of Richard Dawkins whose most famous book is "The God Delusion". I haven't joined this conflict but I remember that Jesus said: I am the bread of life. He said these words two thousands years ago. Here is a question of mine: As long as there is food, human can survive. There are so many kinds of foods, such as meat, fruits and vegetables. Why can’t we eat them and forget about crops. However, Jesus is not meat, not fruits and not vegetables. He is crops. What are crops? They are wheat, rice, corn and red sorghum which belong to the Monocotyledoneae. Sweet potato and potato are not accounted as crops. Jesus has told us how important crops are to our life. We must eat crops every day as some of the compounds in crops are very important to our health.
Atkins的理论是多吃高蛋白的食品，他的依据是，消化食物要燃料，体内无碳水化合物了，就只能燃烧脂肪，就减肥了。另，食高蛋白食品，如肉，蛋，奶酪，人就会在相对长的时间里没有饥饿感，就不想吃东西。吃少了，也达到减肥效果了。我以为这是人为地制造厌食症。
Atkins' theory is that one should eat high protein food. His theory relies on the fact that digestion of food requires energy. When the body has no carbohydrates available, fat then is used as a source of energy. On the other hand, eating high protein food such as meat, eggs and cheese, can enable one to go longer without feeling hungry, so reducing appetite. When you do want to eat, you would eat less, and weight is naturally reduced. I think this is deliberately-induced anorexia.
吃粮的难题是，种粮要土地，现在可耕种的土地越来越少了。粮里有碳水化合物，它统称糖。还有种大纤维，它有粘性，自己抱团，顺着胃肠下走时，它能带走体内的油腻甚至病变体和有害物。所以，它有利于健康。
The difficulty in eating crops is that the growing of crops needs a large area of arable land, which is being reduced day by day. There are carbohydrates in crops, one of them a big, fibre-like compound called arabinoxylans. It is sticky and self-adhesive. When it goes through the intestine, it sticks to fat and viruses and drags them through the bowels. In this way, it improves health.
既然有可能成功，我为什么不写减肥书呢？我有些怕。如果写，我就一定要办一个减肥训练班。那时，我就有了自己的公司了，就忙了，就不自由了。我会收到成千的信，讨教如果保持健康苗条。这会让我很难过很忧郁的。
Although there is a possibility of success, why don't I write this kind of book? If I do so, I may have to run a slimming club. Then, I shall have my own company. Thus, I would be very busy and lose my freedom. I may then receive hundreds and thousands of letters consulting me for advice on keeping a healthy figure. These will depress me deeply.
我忧郁的理由如下：
The reasons for my depression are as follows:
如今报纸杂志网络到处是如何减肥的文章，这种减肥运动从上世纪八十年代就有了。我实在不明白瘦有什么好的？实际上，我上大学时，我们学校的校花都是大胖子，谁胖谁先有男友。这是现代行情。古代呢，最出名的美女还是大胖子，杨贵妃啊。你们到史书上查查，哪个著名美女是瘦子？没有，根本没有。
There have been so many articles concerning losing weight in newspapers, magazines and websites. This phenomenon started in the 1980's. I really don't understand why people want to be slim? In fact, in my university time, the beauty stars were all fatter female students. The fatter she was, the more attractive she was to male students; she could easily find a boyfriend. This is a phenomenon of modern times. In ancient times, the most famous beautiful lady was also a fat one, the royal concubine Yang. You can search any historical record. Can you find a slim beauty there? No, never.
现在的明星都公布自己的身高体重，轻盈得屁颠屁颠的。她们不知道，历史会很快忘记她们。要想留芳千古，定要长成胖姑！！！
Nowadays, most beauty stars let the public know their weight and height. They are so slim that they wiggle their little bumbums shamelessly. They don't know that history will forget them soon. If you want a place for yourself in the history of beauty, you must become a “fat aunty”!
我今年还读了朱自清的《背影》呢，它是近代著名的散文。但我毫无感觉，读如此短的篇幅还打盹儿。但文中的一句话让我提神。朱写道：“父亲是一个胖子。”这话好，简洁朴实。我喜欢胖子这词。
This year, I read "The Back of Father" written by Zhu Ziqing. It is the most famous prose in modern Chinese literature, but I didn't take it in much. I felt sleepy when I read such a short piece. However, one sentence woke me up, which is: My father was fat. What a good sentence, Simple and honest. I like the word "fat".
可是在生活中，我就不能用胖子这词，用到谁身上，人家准难过。轻则生气一场，重则失去多年的友谊。我实在糊涂了，到底人们喜欢胖还是喜欢瘦。那年，我的一位朋友见了我说：唉，土干，你长胖了，真胖了。听了这句话，我快乐。朋友接着同我们共餐，酒喝多了，说，我现在已经学会如何与人沟通交友。如何呢？我们问。他答，你要见了胖的，说你瘦了，你要见了瘦的，说你胖了，这招儿所向披靡！我愤怒了，问，难道我没胖吗？！嗯？
However, in real life, I cannot use "fat". No one accepts this word. It makes people miserable. The word "fat" can make a friend angry or she may break a friendship which has been established for years. I am really confused. Do people like to be fat or not? One year, I met a friend of mine. He said, oh, tugan, you are fatter. You are really getting fat. I felt great after hearing what he said. Then he had a meal with us and of course he drank a lot. He then said, “Now, I've learnt a communication skill”. “What is it then?” we asked. He answered, “When you see a fat lady, you tell her that she is slimmer. When you see a slim lady, you tell her that she is fatter. This cunning trick never failed.” I was furious and shouted at him, “Am I not fatter?! Eh?!”
我希望自己长胖，天天盼望长胖。最近，我真胖了。奇怪得很，我突然慌恐起来，不知道这胖的长势何时停止。我的慌恐惊动了爱人，他说不在乎我胖，别瞎想。我止不住地瞎想：爱人是不是过去在乎我不胖呢？
I hope that I can put on weight. I have been dreaming of being fatter day by day. Recently, I finally put on weight. Strangely, I suddenly became worried. I don't know when this weight gain will stop. My anxiety disturbed my ai4 ren2. He said that he didn’t mind me getting fat. I cannot help wondering: Did ai4 ren2 mind that I was not fat before?
我真糊涂了。我原来不知道世人喜欢胖还是喜欢瘦，我现在连我自己都不知道我是想胖还是想瘦。
I am really confused. In the past, I don't know whether people like being fat or not. Today, I even don't know whether I like being fat or not.
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Arabinoxylans
Wheat and rye arabinoxylans are important functional ingredients in baked products affecting water binding and holding , rheology and starch retrogradation. They also protect the gas retention in dough due to the viscous influence on gluten-starch films. Water binding is dependent on the arabinose substitution. Where this is absent the molecule binds less water and becomes less soluble but water is also lost from sections that are 2-. 3-disubstituted where there are steric exclusion effects. Although there are some reports that the degree of arabinose substitution has little influence on the overall semi-flexible conformation (and hence the viscosity), it must influence areas within the structure and control over the radius of gyration may be lost due to the presence of under-substituted more-flexible regions. Entanglement of the hydrated chains increases the water-holding capacity of the arabinoxylans. The presence of oxidative ferulic acid cross-links increases the strength and permanence of this water-holding capacity and makes gels more elastic.
