读新闻学英语:Cold-water immersion therapy helps us sleep

英语作文    发布时间:2025-01-15  
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Cold-water immersion therapy helps us sleep

Recent research suggests taking a dip in very cold water for several hours a week is good for our health. Researchers from the University of Central Lancashire in the U.K. looked into the benefits of cold-water immersion therapy. They found it could have positive effects on our cognition, sleep quality, and overall well-being. The researchers studied the effects on the health of 13 people. The participants were dunked in 10ºC water for 10 minutes, three times a week, for four weeks. Study author Dr Robert Allan said the cold-water therapy could "help with a number of positive physiological and psychological changes linked to improvements in overall general health and well-being".

Cold-water immersion has been used in various fields for its curative and healing benefits. For many decades, ice baths have helped to speed the recovery of athletes following intense, energy-sapping performances. Dr Allan said his findings also showed a positive impact on sleep. He said: "Two weeks of regular therapeutic cold-water immersion improved subjective sleep, with fewer sleep disturbances." Subjecting the body to cold water for health purposes is already a common practice. At the New Year, people take a plunge in icy seas and lakes. In Japan, bathers refresh their bodies by alternating dips in hot and cold baths in a tradition known as toto-no-u.

Vocabulary

      1.dip  (noun)a.Related to the mind and how people think and feel.
      2.immersionb.A short time of getting into a bath, pool, the sea…
      3.cognitionc.Put something quickly into a liquid and then take it out.
      4.participantsd.The act of putting something fully into a liquid.
      5.dunkede.People who take part in something.
      6.physiologicalf.The process of thinking and understanding.
      7.psychologicalg.Related to how the body works.


      8.fieldsh.Different areas of work or study.
      9.curativei.Changing back and forth between two things.
      10.intensej.Something that helps to make you better when you are sick.
      11.sappingk.Jump or dive quickly and energetically into something.
      12.subjectivel.Very strong or great.
      13.plunge  (noun)m.Slowly taking away energy or strength.
      14.alternatingn.Based on personal feelings, not facts.


TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if 1-8 below are true (T) or false (F).

  • The article says dipping a toe in freezing cold water is good for us.     T / F

  • Cold-water baths could help us to think better.     T / F

  • Test participants took a daily 10-minute bath at 10ºC for a month.     T / F

  • Researchers said cold-water therapy could help our mind and body.     T / F

  • Athletes have taken cold-water baths for over a century.     T / F

  • A researcher said two weeks of the cold-water therapy improved sleep.   T / F

  • It is very uncommon for people to subject their body to cold water.     T / F

  • In Japan, people get in and out of hot and cold baths.     T / F