大家好，我是英语18403班的苑冬雪，我演讲的题目为《烘焙有利于心理健康》。

Baking is Good for Your Mental Health

Bread making is a survival skill.With very few simple things-such as flour, salt and yeast,you can bake a fresh loaf of bread for your family, neighbors or coworkers.Baking is not just a useful survival skill.It can make you feel better at stressful times.

In fact, baking and cooking have been used to treat people with mental health issues.Julie ohana is a social worker. She offers what she calls culinary therapy to her patients in New York City.I say therapy because to me cooking is so therapeutic.And therapeutic really means something that makes you feel good, I and beneficial something that is helpful to the person doing it.Julie Ohana uses culinary therapy to help people overcome many kinds of issues. She explains that culinary therapy works on many levels.So when you're in the kitchen-whether you're cooking or you're baking it really requires a certain level of mindfulness, or being present in the moment.Specifically, when you're baking.And baking really requires step-by-step, following a recipe, being more precise.Kneading the dough or rolling something out, you really get the full benefit of being present in the moment and being able to relax and put aside all the other thoughts and just focus on the here-and-now.And there really are very strong benefits of being able to do that, to be able to relax, to decompress, destress,and really increase ones level of life satisfaction.Ohana also says baking is a process filled with love.It not only makes you feel good, it produces something tangible something you can touch and eat!Ohana calls baking a labor of love. and you end up with this finished product that-not only is it tangible- but it's edible and it's delicious.Often our food experiences are tied to family memories and stories..We remember meals our grandmothers made. We teach our children important recipes for family favorites Ohana says something that all bakers know-giving delicious, baked goods makes the giver feel as good as the receiver.

  So, she calls baking a win-win.To be able to pass that on to someone.else certainly can make the day for the person receiving it.But It's also just as powerful for the person who's giving the baked goods.It's a win-win .It's not just something purely that you do for the other person. The baker, the cook really gets to benefit from the act as well.

  面包制作是一种生存技能。只需要一些简单的东西，比如面粉、盐和酵母。你就可以为家人、邻居或同事烘焙出新鲜的面包。烘焙不仅是一项有用的生存技能。它还能令你在紧张时刻感觉好受些。

  事实上，烘焙和烹饪一直被用来治疗有心理健康问题的人。朱莉·奥哈纳是一名社会工作者。她为她在纽约市的患者提供了她称之为的烹饪疗法。“我之所以说疗法＇是因为对我来说，烹饪极具治疗作用。治疗真的是会令你感觉良好的东西，是对这样做的人有帮助和益处的东西。朱莉·奥哈纳用烹饪疗法帮助人们克服多种问题。她解释说，烹饪疗法在许多层面都起作用。当你在厨房时一一无论你是在烹任还是在烘焙一每一刻都需要一定程度的专注。尤其是烘焙时。烘焙确实要循序渐进，遵照食谱，更加精确操面团或是擀面，你可以充分享受当下能够放松，抛开所有其他想法，只关注当下而能够做到这一点，能够放松、减压、缓解压力、真正提高生活满意度，确实有很大的好处。”奥哈纳还表示，烘焙是充满爱的过程。它不仅能令你感觉良好，还能产生一些有形的东西一一即你能触摸和吃到的东西！

奧哈纳称烘焙是爱的劳动。当你烘焙时，你经历了整个过程，这真的是一种爱的劳动你最终得到的成品不仅是有形的，而且是可食用的美味。我们的饮食经历常常与家庭记忆和故事联

系在一起。我们记得祖母做的饭菜。我们教孩子家人最爱的重要食谱。奥哈纳说，所有面包师都知道，送出美味的烘焙食品会让给予者和接受者的感觉一样好。

  因此，她称烘焙是种双贏。能把这送给其他人肯定会令接受者感到高兴而对送出烘焙食品的人来说，这同样具有强大的作用。这是一种双贏。这不仅仅是你在为别人做事情。面包师和厨师也会从中获益。