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Sandra Aamodt: Why dieting doesn't usually work
Sandra Aamodt: Pse dietat zakonisht nuk funksionojne
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Ne Sh.B.A, 80% e vajzave kane qene ne diete kur kane mbushur 10 vjec. Ne kete fjalim te sinqerte dhe te gjalle, neuroshkencetarja Sandra Aamodt perdor historine e saj personale per te modeluar nje mesim te rendesishem per se si truri yne drejton trupin tone, ndersa eksploron shkencen pas sepse dieta jo vetem nuk funksionon, por ka shume mundesi te beje me shume dem. Ajo sugjeron ide se si mund te jetojme nje jete intuitive e pa manine ndaj dietave.
Sandra Aamodt - Neuroscientist and science writer
Sandra Aamodt explores the neuroscience of everyday life, examining new research and its impact on our understanding of ourselves. Full bio
Sandra Aamodt explores the neuroscience of everyday life, examining new research and its impact on our understanding of ourselves. Full bio
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00:12
Three and a half years ago,
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Tre vjet e gjysem me pare,
00:14
I made one of the best decisions of my life.
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mora nje nga vendimet me te mira te jetes time,
00:17
As my New Year's resolution,
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Si nje vendim te Vitit te Ri,
00:19
I gave up dieting, stopped worrying about my weight,
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hoqa dore nga dieta, nisa mos shqeteshohem per peshen time,
00:23
and learned to eat mindfully.
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dhe mesova te ushqehem me kujdes.
00:26
Now I eat whenever I'm hungry,
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Tashme ushqehem sa here jam e uritur,
00:30
and I've lost 10 pounds.
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dhe kam humbur 4 kg e gjysem.
00:33
This was me at age 13,
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Kjo jam une ne moshen 13 vjecare,
00:36
when I started my first diet.
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kur nisa dieten time te pare.
00:38
I look at that picture now, and I think,
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E shoh ate fotografi tani, dhe mendoj
00:41
you did not need a diet,
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nuk me eshte dashur nje diete,
00:43
you needed a fashion consult.
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me eshte dashur nje konsulent i modes.
00:46
(Laughter)
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(Te qeshura)
00:48
But I thought I needed to lose weight,
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Por mendoja se duhet te humbja peshe,
00:51
and when I gained it back,
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dhe kur i rimerja,
00:53
of course I blamed myself.
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sigurisht fajesoja veten time.
00:57
And for the next three decades,
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Dhe per tre dekadat ne vazhdim,
00:59
I was on and off various diets.
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kam qene ne dhe jashte dietave te ndryshme.
01:02
No matter what I tried,
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Pavaresisht cfare provoja,
01:04
the weight I'd lost always came back.
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pesha qe humba gjithmone rikthehej.
01:07
I'm sure many of you know the feeling.
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Jam e sigurte qe shume nga ju e njihni ndjenjen.
01:10
As a neuroscientist,
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Si nje neuroshkenctare,
01:12
I wondered, why is this so hard?
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Cuditesha, pse eshte kaq e veshtire?
01:15
Obviously, how much you weigh depends on
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Qartesisht, se sa peshon eshte ne varesi te
01:17
how much you eat and how much energy you burn.
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se sa shume ushqehesh dhe sa kalori djeg.
01:20
What most people don't realize
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Shume njerez nuk e kuptojne
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is that hunger and energy use
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se uria dhe perdorimi i energjise
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are controlled by the brain,
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kontrollohen nga truri,
01:26
mostly without your awareness.
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kryesisht pa dijenine tende.
01:30
Your brain does a lot of its work behind the scenes,
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Truri jot e kryen punen pas skenes,
01:33
and that is a good thing,
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dhe kjo eshte nje gje e mire,
01:35
because your conscious mind --
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sepse mendja jote e vetedijshme --
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how do we put this politely? --
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si mund ta themi kete me edukate?--
01:39
it's easily distracted.
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shperqendrohet lehtesisht.
01:43
It's good that you don't have to remember to breathe
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Eshte mire qe nuk te duhet te kujtohesh te maresh fryme
01:45
when you get caught up in a movie.
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ndersa harroheni ne nje film.
01:48
You don't forget how to walk
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Nuk harron se si te ecesh
01:50
because you're thinking about
what to have for dinner.
what to have for dinner.
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sepse je duke menduar se cfare do besh per darke.
01:53
Your brain also has its own sense
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Truri jot gjithashtu ka shqisen e vet
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of what you should weigh,
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te asaj se sa duhet te peshosh ti,
01:57
no matter what you consciously believe.
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pavaresisht te besimit tend ne menyre te ndergjegjshme.
02:00
This is called your set point,
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Kjo quhet pika nismetare,
02:02
but that's a misleading term,
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por ky eshte nje term corientues,
02:04
because it's actually a range
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sepse eshte aktualisht nje game
02:05
of about 10 or 15 pounds.
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e rreth 5 ose 7 kg.
02:08
You can use lifestyle choices to move your weight
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Ju mund te perdorni zgjedhje ne menyren
e jeteses per te levizur peshen tuaj
e jeteses per te levizur peshen tuaj
02:11
up and down within that range,
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lart e poshte nen ate game,
02:13
but it's much, much harder to stay outside of it.
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por eshte shume me e veshtire te qendrosh jashte saj.
02:18
The hypothalamus, the part of the brain
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Hipotalamus, pjesa e trurit
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that regulates body weight,
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qe rregullon peshen e trupit,
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there are more than a dozen chemical signals
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ka me duzina sinjale kimike
02:24
in the brain that tell your body to gain weight,
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ne tru qe i thone trupit tend te marin peshe,
02:26
more than another dozen that
tell your body to lose it,
tell your body to lose it,
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me shume se sa nje duzine tjeter qe
i thone trupit ta humbasi ate,
i thone trupit ta humbasi ate,
02:30
and the system works like a thermostat,
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dhe sistemi punon si nje termostat,
02:33
responding to signals from the body
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duke ju pergjigjur sinjaleve te trupit
02:36
by adjusting hunger, activity and metabolism,
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duke pershtatur urine, aktivitetin dhe metabolizmin,
02:39
to keep your weight stable as conditions change.
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ta mbajne trupin ne stabilitet ndekohe
qe kushtet ndryshojne.
qe kushtet ndryshojne.
02:43
That's what a thermostat does, right?
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Kete kryen nje termostat apo jo?
02:45
It keeps the temperature in your house the same
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E mban tempereturen e shtepise tende ne stabilitet
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as the weather changes outside.
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nderkohe qe koha jashte ndryshon.
02:51
Now you can try to change the temperature
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Ju mund te ndryshoni temperaturen
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in your house by opening a window in the winter,
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ne shtepi duke hapur nje dritare ne dimer,
02:58
but that's not going to change
the setting on the thermostat,
the setting on the thermostat,
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por kjo nuk do e ndryshon percaktimin ne termostat,
03:02
which will respond by kicking on the furnace
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i cili do pergjigjet duke nxitur ngrohtesine
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to warm the place back up.
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per ta ringrohur vendin perseri.
03:06
Your brain works exactly the same way,
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Truri jot funksionon ekzaktesisht ne te njejten menyre,
03:09
responding to weight loss by using powerful tools
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duke i ju pergjigur humbjes se peshes me
perdorimin e veglave te fuqishme
perdorimin e veglave te fuqishme
03:13
to push your body back
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per te shtyre trupin tend te rikthehet
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to what it considers normal.
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ne ate cka konsiderohet normale.
03:18
If you lose a lot of weight,
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Nese ti humbet shume peshe,
03:20
your brain reacts as if you were starving,
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truri jot reagon sikurse te jesh shume i uritur,
03:24
and whether you started out fat or thin,
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edhe nese ti ne nisje je i shendetshem apo i dobet,
03:27
your brain's response is exactly the same.
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pergjigja e trurit tend eshte ekzaktesisht e njejte.
03:30
We would love to think that your brain could tell
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Do na pelqente te mendonim se
truri juaj mund te tregoje
truri juaj mund te tregoje
03:32
whether you need to lose weight or not,
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nese ty te duhet te humbasesh peshe ose jo,
03:33
but it can't.
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por nuk mundet.
03:36
If you do lose a lot of weight,
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Nese ti humbet shume peshe,
03:38
you become hungry,
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atehere ti nis te kesh uri,
03:41
and your muscles burn less energy.
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dhe muskujt e tua djegin me pak energji.
03:44
Dr. Rudy Leibel of Columbia University
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Dr. Rudy Leibel nga Universiteti Columbia
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has found that people who have lost
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ka zbuluar se njerezit te cilet kane humbur
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10 percent of their body weight
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10 perqind te peshes se trupit tyre
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burn 250 to 400 calories less
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djegin 250 deri 400 kalori me pak
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because their metabolism is suppressed.
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sepse metabolizmi i tyre eshte i ndrydhur.
03:56
That's a lot of food.
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Ky eshte shume ushqim.
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This means that a successful dieter
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Kjo do te thote se nje person i suksesshem ne dieta
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must eat this much less forever
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duhet te ushqehet me me pak se kaq perhere
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than someone of the same weight
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se sa dikush i te njejtes peshe
04:05
who has always been thin.
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i cili ka qene perhere i dobet.
04:07
From an evolutionary perspective,
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Nga nje perspektive ne zhvillim,
04:09
your body's resistance to weight loss makes sense.
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rezistenca e trupit tuaj
ndaj humbjes ne peshe ka kuptim.
ndaj humbjes ne peshe ka kuptim.
04:11
When food was scarce, our ancestors' survival
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Kur ushqimi ishte i rralle,
mbijetesa e paraardhesve tane
mbijetesa e paraardhesve tane
04:14
depended on conserving energy,
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varej nga konservimi i energjise,
04:17
and regaining the weight when food was available
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dhe rimarja e peshes kur ushqimi ishte i mundshem
04:19
would have protected them
against the next shortage.
against the next shortage.
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do ti mbronte ata gjate mungeses se rradhes.
04:22
Over the course of human history,
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Gjate rrjedhes se historise humane,
04:25
starvation has been a much bigger problem
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uria ka qene nje problem shume me i madh
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than overeating.
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se sa mbi ushqyerja.
04:30
This may explain a very sad fact:
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Kjo mund ti jape shpjegim nje fakti shume te trishtuar:
04:34
Set points can go up,
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Pikat e nisjes mund te ngjiten lart,
04:37
but they rarely go down.
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por rralle zbresin.
04:39
Now, if your mother ever mentioned
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Nese nena juaj ju ka permendur ndonjehere
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that life is not fair,
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se jeta nuk eshte e drejte,
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this is the kind of thing she was talking about.
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kjo eshte pak a shume gjeja per ate cka ajo fliste.
04:47
(Laughter)
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(Te qeshura)
04:50
Successful dieting doesn't lower your set point.
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Dietat e suksesshme nuk ju ulin piken e nisjes.
04:53
Even after you've kept the weight off
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Edhe pasi ti e ke ruajtur peshen
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for as long as seven years,
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per me shume se shtate vjet,
04:56
your brain keeps trying to make you gain it back.
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truri jot vazhdon te perpiqet ti rimaresh.
05:00
If that weight loss had been due to a long famine,
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Nese ajo humbja e peshes ka qene
per shkak te nje urie te vazhdueshme,
per shkak te nje urie te vazhdueshme,
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that would be a sensible response.
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kjo do ishte nje pergjigje e ndjeshme.
05:06
In our modern world of drive-thru burgers,
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Ne boten tone moderne ku blejme
hamburgera pa dale nga makinat,
hamburgera pa dale nga makinat,
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it's not working out so well for many of us.
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nuk po funksionon mire per shume nga ne.
05:12
That difference between our ancestral past
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Ajo diferenca midis stergjysheve tane
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and our abundant present
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dhe te tashmes ku kemi me tepri
05:18
is the reason that Dr. Yoni Freedhoff
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eshte arsyeja pse Dr. Yoni Freedhoff
05:20
of the University of Ottawa
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nga Universiteti i Ottawa
05:23
would like to take some of his patients back to a time
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do deshironte te kthente
disa nga pacientet e tij pas ne kohen
disa nga pacientet e tij pas ne kohen
05:25
when food was less available,
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ku ushqimi ka qene me pak i disponueshem,
05:27
and it's also the reason
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dhe eshte gjithashtu arsyeja
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that changing the food environment
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se te ndryshosh mjedisin e ushqimit
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is really going to be the most effective solution
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do jete zgjidhja me efektive
05:36
to obesity.
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ndaj obezitetit.
05:38
Sadly, a temporary weight gain
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Fatkeqesisht, nje rritje e perkohshme ne peshe
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can become permanent.
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mund te kthehet ne te perhershme.
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If you stay at a high weight for too long,
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Nese ti qendron ne nje peshe te larte per shume kohe,
05:46
probably a matter of years for most of us,
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ndoshta disa vjet per shumicen nga ne,
05:48
your brain may decide that that's the new normal.
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truri jot mund te vendose se kjo eshte normalja e re.
05:53
Psychologists classify eaters into two groups,
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Psikologet i ndajne hamesit ne dy grupe,
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those who rely on their hunger
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ata qe mbeshteten ne urine e tyre
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and those who try to control their eating
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dhe ata qe perpiqen te kontrollojne te ngrenin e tyre
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through willpower, like most dieters.
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ndermjet vullnetit, si shumica e atyre qe jane ne diete.
06:07
Let's call them intuitive eaters and controlled eaters.
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Le ti quajme ata hames intuitiv dhe hames te kontrolluar.
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The interesting thing is that intuitive eaters
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Pjesa interesante eshte se hamesit intuitiv
06:16
are less likely to be overweight,
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kane me pak gjasa te jene mbipeshe,
06:18
and they spend less time thinking about food.
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dhe kalojne shume pak kohe duke menduar per ushqimin.
06:22
Controlled eaters are more vulnerable
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Hamesit e kontrolluar jane me shume te prekshem
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to overeating in response to advertising,
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ndaj mbiushqyerjes ne pergjigje te reklamimit,
06:28
super-sizing, and the all-you-can-eat buffet.
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te masave te medha, dhe te buffese se vetesherbimit.
06:32
And a small indulgence,
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Dhe nje privilegj i vogel,
06:34
like eating one scoop of ice cream,
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si te maresh nje kupe me akullore,
06:37
is more likely to lead to a food binge
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ka shume gjasa te kthehet ne nje ngrenie te tepruar
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in controlled eaters.
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ne hamesit e kontrolluar.
06:45
Children are especially vulnerable
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Femijet jane vecanerisht te ndjeshem
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to this cycle of dieting and then binging.
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ndaj ketij cikli dietik dhe me pas
te kthehen ne hames te tepruar.
te kthehen ne hames te tepruar.
06:50
Several long-term studies have shown
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Disa studime afatgjata kane treguar
06:53
that girls who diet in their early teenage years
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se vajza te cilat bejne diete
ne fillimet e viteve te adoleshences
ne fillimet e viteve te adoleshences
06:57
are three times more likely to become overweight
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jane trefish te dispozuara te kthehen ne mbipeshe
07:00
five years later,
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pese vite me pas,
07:02
even if they started at a normal weight,
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edhe nese kane filluar ne nje peshe normale,
07:04
and all of these studies found
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dhe te gjitha keto studime zbuluan
07:07
that the same factors
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se te njejtet faktore
07:09
that predicted weight gain
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qe parashikuan marrjen e peshes
07:13
also predicted the development of eating disorders.
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gjithashtu parashikuan zhvillimin
e crregullimit te ngrenies.
e crregullimit te ngrenies.
07:16
The other factor, by the way,
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Faktori tjeter, me qe ra fjala,
07:17
those of you who are parents,
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ata te cilet nga ju jane prinder,
07:19
was being teased by family members
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ishte ngacmimi i pjesetarve te familjes
07:22
about their weight.
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per peshen e tyre.
07:23
So don't do that.
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Ndaj mos e beni ate.
07:25
(Laughter)
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(Te qeshura)
07:27
I left almost all my graphs at home,
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I kam lene pothuajse te gjithe grafiket e mi ne shtepi,
07:30
but I couldn't resist throwing in just this one,
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por nuk mund te rezistoja pa ju treguar kete,
07:32
because I'm a geek, and that's how I roll.
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sepse jam e fiksuar, dhe keshtu funksionoj.
07:34
(Laughter)
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(Te qeshura)
07:37
This is a study that looked at the risk of death
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Ky eshte nje studim mbi riskun e vdekjes
07:39
over a 14-year period
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per nje periudhe 14-vjecare
07:41
based on four healthy habits:
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duke u bazuar ne kater zakone te shendetshme:
07:44
eating enough fruits and vegetables,
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duke ngrene fruta dhe perime te mjaftushme,
07:46
exercise three times a week,
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duke u stervitur tre here ne jave,
07:48
not smoking,
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mos pirja e duhanit,
07:49
and drinking in moderation.
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dhe pije alkolike me mase.
07:51
Let's start by looking at the normal weight
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Le te fillojme duke pare peshen normale
07:53
people in the study.
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te njerezve ne kete studim.
07:55
The height of the bars is the risk of death,
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Lartesia e bareve tregon riskun e vdekjes,
07:57
and those zero, one, two, three, four numbers
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dhe ato zero, nje, dy, tre, kater numrat
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on the horizontal axis
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ne aksin horizontal
08:00
are the number of those healthy habits
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jane numri i atyre me zakone te shendetshme
08:02
that a given person had.
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qe i eshte dhene nje personi.
08:04
And as you'd expect, the healthier the lifestyle,
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Dhe sikurse mund ta parashikonit,
sa me e shendetshme te jete menyra e jeteses
sa me e shendetshme te jete menyra e jeteses
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the less likely people were to die during the study.
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aq me pak jane mundesite
qe njerezit te vdesin gjate studimit.
qe njerezit te vdesin gjate studimit.
08:10
Now let's look at what happens
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Tani le te shohim cfare ndodh
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in overweight people.
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ne njerezit e mbipeshe.
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The ones that had no healthy habits
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Ata qe nuk kishin zakone te shendetshme
08:15
had a higher risk of death.
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kishin risk me te larte ndaj vdekjes.
08:17
Adding just one healthy habit
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Duke shtuar vetem nje zakon te shendetshem
08:19
pulls overweight people back into the normal range.
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i terheq njerezit e mbipeshe ne gamen normale.
08:22
For obese people with no healthy habits,
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Per njerezit obeze pa zakone te shendetshme,
08:25
the risk is very high, seven times higher
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risku eshte shume i larte, shtate here me i larte
08:28
than the healthiest groups in the study.
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se sa grupet me te shendetshme ne studim.
08:30
But a healthy lifestyle helps obese people too.
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Por menyra e jeteses e shendetshme
ndihmon edhe njerezit obeze gjithashtu.
ndihmon edhe njerezit obeze gjithashtu.
08:34
In fact, if you look only at the group
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Ne fakt, nese do shihni grupin
08:36
with all four healthy habits,
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me te kater zakonet e shendetshme,
08:38
you can see that weight makes very little difference.
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mund te shihni se pesha ben shume pak diference.
08:41
You can take control of your health
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Ti mund ta maresh kontrollin e shendetin
08:43
by taking control of your lifestyle,
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duke marre nen kontroll menyren e jeteses,
08:45
even If you can't lose weight
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edhe nese nuk mund te humbesh peshe
08:46
and keep it off.
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dhe ta mbash ate larg.
08:48
Diets don't have very much reliability.
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Dietat nuk kane shume siguri.
08:52
Five years after a diet,
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Pese vite pas nje diete,
08:54
most people have regained the weight.
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shumica e njerezve e kane rimarre peshen.
08:57
Forty percent of them have gained even more.
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Dyzet perqind e tyre kane marre edhe me shume.
08:59
If you think about this,
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Nese e mendon,
09:01
the typical outcome of dieting
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rezultati tipik i dietave
09:03
is that you're more likely to gain weight
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eshte se, ti ke me shume gjasa te maresh peshe
09:05
in the long run than to lose it.
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ne rrugen e gjate se sa te humbasesh.
09:08
If I've convinced you that dieting
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Nese ju kam bindur se dietat
09:11
might be a problem,
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mund te jene nje problem,
09:13
the next question is, what do you do about it?
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pyetja e rradhes eshte, cfare do beni per ate?
09:15
And my answer, in a word, is mindfulness.
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Dhe pergjigja ime eshte, ne nje fjale, ndergjegjesimi.
09:20
I'm not saying you need to learn to meditate
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Nuk po ju them se duhet te mesoni te meditoni
09:22
or take up yoga.
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ose te beni yoga.
09:24
I'm talking about mindful eating:
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Por ju them per ngrenien e ndergjegjshme:
09:27
learning to understand your body's signals
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te mesosh te kuptosh sinjalet e trupit tend
09:30
so that you eat when you're hungry
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ne menyre qe te ushqeheni kur te keni uri
09:33
and stop when you're full,
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dhe te ndaleni kur jeni plot,
09:35
because a lot of weight gain boils down
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sepse shume marje ne peshe vjen
09:37
to eating when you're not hungry.
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nga e ngrena kur nuk keni uri.
09:40
How do you do it?
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Si e beni?
09:42
Give yourself permission to eat
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Jepini vetes leje te ushqehet
09:44
as much as you want, and then work on figuring out
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aq sa doni, dhe me pas te punoni per te zbuluar
09:46
what makes your body feel good.
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se cfare e ben trupin tuaj te ndjehet mire.
09:48
Sit down to regular meals without distractions.
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Uluni ne vakte normale pa hutime.
09:51
Think about how your body feels
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Mendoni se si ndihet trupi juaj
09:53
when you start to eat and when you stop,
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kur nisni te ushqeheni dhe kur ndaloni,
09:55
and let your hunger decide
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dhe lereni urine tuaj te vendosi
09:58
when you should be done.
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se kur duhet te perfundoni.
09:59
It took about a year for me to learn this,
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Mua me mori rreth nje vit per ta mesuar kete,
10:01
but it's really been worth it.
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por vertet ka qene i vlefshem.
10:03
I am so much more relaxed around food
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Jam me shume e relaksuar rreth ushqimit
10:06
than I have ever been in my life.
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se sa kam qene ndonjehere ne jeten time.
10:09
I often don't think about it.
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Shpesh nuk e mendoj ate.
10:12
I forget we have chocolate in the house.
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Harroj qe kemi cokollate ne shtepi.
10:15
It's like aliens have taken over my brain.
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Eshte sikur jashtetokesoret kane hyre ne trurin tim.
10:17
It's just completely different.
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Eshte dicka totalisht ndryshe,
10:20
I should say that
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Me duhet te them se
10:23
this approach to eating probably
won't make you lose weight
won't make you lose weight
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ky trajtim ndaj ngrenies ndoshta
nuk do ju bej te humbisni peshe
nuk do ju bej te humbisni peshe
10:26
unless you often eat when you're not hungry,
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pervec se nese hani shpesh kur nuk jeni te uritur,
10:29
but doctors don't know of any approach
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por doktoret nuk njohin ndonje trajtim
10:32
that makes significant weight loss in a lot of people,
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qe kryen humbje peshe te rendesishme
tek shume njerez,
tek shume njerez,
10:37
and that is why a lot of people are now focusing on
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dhe kjo eshte arsyeja pse shume njerez
tani jane te fokusuar
tani jane te fokusuar
10:40
preventing weight gain
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ne parandalimin e marrjes ne peshe
10:42
instead of promoting weight loss.
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ne vend qe te promovojne humbjen e peshes.
10:46
Let's face it:
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Le te perballemi me te:
10:47
If diets worked, we'd all be thin already.
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Nese dietat do funksiononin do ishim
tashme te gjithe te dobet.
tashme te gjithe te dobet.
10:51
(Laughter)
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(Te qeshura)
10:53
Why do we keep doing the same thing
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Pse vazhdojme te bejme te njejten gje
10:55
and expecting different results?
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dhe te presim rezultate ndryshe?
10:58
Diets may seem harmless,
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Dietat mund te duken te pademshme,
11:00
but they actually do a lot of collateral damage.
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por realisht ato bejne nje dem indirekt.
11:03
At worst, they ruin lives:
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Ne me te keqen, ato rrenojne jete:
11:06
Weight obsession leads to eating disorders,
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Mania e peshes te drejton
ndaj crregullimit te ngrenies,
ndaj crregullimit te ngrenies,
11:08
especially in young kids.
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vecanerisht tek te rinjte.
11:11
In the U.S., we have 80 percent of 10-year-old girls
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Ne Sh.B.A, kemi 80 perqind te vajzave 10-vjecare
11:16
say they've been on a diet.
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qe thone se kane qene ne diet.
11:18
Our daughters have learned to measure their worth
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Vajzat tona kane mesuatr te masin vlerat e tyre
11:20
by the wrong scale.
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ne shkallen e gabuar.
11:23
Even at its best,
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Madje dhe ne me te mirat e saja,
11:25
dieting is a waste of time and energy.
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dieta eshte nje humbje kohe dhe energjie.
11:28
It takes willpower which you could be using
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Te merr vullnet te cilin mund ta perdoresh
11:32
to help your kids with their homework
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per te ndihmuar femijet ne detyrat e shtepise
11:35
or to finish that important work project,
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ose per te perfunduar nje projekt pune,
11:38
and because willpower is limited,
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dhe duke qene se vullneti eshte i limituar,
11:42
any strategy that relies on its consistent application
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cdo strategji e cila varet ne
zbatimin e tij te qendrueshem
zbatimin e tij te qendrueshem
11:46
is pretty much guaranteed
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eshte pak a shume e garantuar
11:49
to eventually fail you
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qe tju deshtoje perfundimisht
11:51
when your attention moves on to something else.
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kur vemendja jote leviz ne dicka tjeter.
11:55
Let me leave you with one last thought.
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Me lejoni tju le me nje mendim te fundit.
11:59
What if we told all those dieting girls
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Po sikur ti themi te gjithave ketyre vajzave ne diete
12:02
that it's okay to eat when they're hungry?
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qe eshte ok qe ato te ushqehen kur kane uri?
12:05
What if we taught them to work with their appetite
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Po sikur ti mesonim te punonin me oreksin e tyre
12:07
instead of fearing it?
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ne vend qe ta kene frike ate?
12:09
I think most of them would be happier and healthier,
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Mendoj se shumica e atyre do ishin
me te lumtura dhe te shendetshme
me te lumtura dhe te shendetshme
12:13
and as adults,
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dhe si te rritur,
12:15
many of them would probably be thinner.
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shume nga ato do ishin me te dobta.
12:18
I wish someone had told me that
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Do doja qe dikush te ma kish thene ate
12:21
back when I was 13.
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kur isha 13.
12:24
Thanks.
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Faleminderit.
12:26
(Applause)
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(Duartrokitje)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sandra Aamodt - Neuroscientist and science writerSandra Aamodt explores the neuroscience of everyday life, examining new research and its impact on our understanding of ourselves.
Why you should listen
Sandra Aamodt is a neuroscientist and science writer, who takes the complexities of neuroscience research and whips them into fun reads that give people a better understanding of their minds and behavior. Her books Welcome to Your Brain and Welcome to Your Child's Brain (both written with Sam Wang) are designed to bring neuroscience to a general audience, and they've both been widely translated. Aamodt's science writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, El Mundo and the Times of London.
From 2003 to 2008, Aamodt was the editor-in-chief of Nature Neuroscience, a leading scientific journal in the field of brain research. She brings a significant scientific background to the task of explaining new research without creating neurobunk. During her career, she has read over five thousand neuroscience papers, and written many editorials on science policy.
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