抑制肥胖的根本方法
抑制肥胖的根本方法
肥胖癥在英國一直處于逐年增加的趨勢，醫(yī)療保健費(fèi)用也大量的消耗在了由于過度肥胖而產(chǎn)生的疾病中。專家認(rèn)為降低卡路里的攝取量才是最根本能夠抑制肥胖癥增加的辦法。
測試中可能遇到的詞匯和知識：
misinform|誤傳；提供錯誤消息[m?s?n'f??m]
combat |反對；與…戰(zhàn)斗['k?mb?t; 'k?m-]
deliberately|故意地[d?'l?b?r?tli]
criticize|批評['kr?t?,sa?z]
tackle|處理['t?k(?)l]
strenuous|緊張的；費(fèi)力的；艱苦的['strenj??s]
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Concern over calorie intake data as obesity reaches record high（443words）
By Scheherazade Daneshkhu, Consumer Industries Editor
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The number of calories eaten in Britain is being undercounted by up to 50 per cent, creating confusion over growing obesity levels.
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), a part-privatised government agency, said national surveys are not capturing the changes in the way food is eaten, particularly snacking outside the home. “Such a large underestimate of calorie intake could misinform the policy debate and lead to less effective strategies to combat the current national obesity crisis.”
It added that people are likely to under-report the amount they eat, both deliberately and unconsciously, and that fewer overweight people are accurately recording the amount they eat in surveys. BIT questioned the 40-year trend in official statistics that has shown a steep decline in calorie consumption, even as obesity has increased.
Obesity in the UK is the highest it has ever been and is putting a growing strain on the finances of the National Health Service, its head, Simon Stevens, has said, because of the cost of treating obesity-related illnesses, such as type 2 diabetes.
He has repeatedly called on the government to take measures to combat obesity and has criticised the food and drink industry for using too much sugar.
The government has said it will introduce a sugar tax on sugary carbonated drinks in 2018 and is planning to publish a strategy to tackle childhood obesity.
The food and drink industry has tried to deflect criticism by pointing to the official data which implies that people are getting fatter because they are exercising less.
The report refutes this, saying that “reductions in physical activity do not provide a realistic explanation for the rise in obesity rates over the last 40 years”.
It said: “Even though jobs have become less strenuous over time, the increase in people’s body weight more than compensates for the ensuing decline in activity.”
Its findings imply that calorie consumption has not decreased significantly over time and that attempts to get people to exercise more should not distract from the central message that people need to eat less in order to lose weight.
Michael Hallsworth, co-author of the paper and director of health at BIT, said: “Strategies to reduce obesity should focus on reducing calorie consumption. Our analysis shows that it’s unlikely that calorie intake has dramatically decreased in recent decades. Instead, it seems we are reporting our consumption less accurately.”
Mr Hallsworth called on the Government Statistical Service to examine ways of improving the way people report what they eat.
Jamie Jenkins, head of health analysis at the Office for National Statistics, said it was “actively investigating a range of alternative data sources to improve our understanding of calorie intake”.
請根據(jù)你所讀到的文章內(nèi)容，完成以下自測題目：
1. Which one is right about British health problem reaches record high?
A. AIDS
B. skin cancer
C. heart disease
D. obesity
2. Which one is describing incorrectly how people report the amount they eat?
A. deliberately
B. cursorily
C. accurately
D. unconsciously
3. What kind of tax does British government want to increase?
A. food
B. medicine
C. sugar
D. liquor
4. In which year does the British government plan to publish a strategy to tackle childhood obesity?
A. 2016
B. 2018
C. 2019
D. 2020
[1] 答案 D. obesity
解釋：肥胖癥目前在英國已經(jīng)破了紀(jì)錄高點(diǎn)。
[2] 答案 B. cursorily
解釋：在調(diào)查統(tǒng)計(jì)中，只有一小部分過度肥胖的群眾才會仔細(xì)地記錄他們的每日飲食攝取量，大部分的人都只是故意地或無意識地過低地記錄他們的每日攝取量。
[3] 答案 C. sugar
解釋：為了能夠降低很多食品產(chǎn)業(yè)在食物和飲料中減少加入其中糖分的用量從而能夠降低人們卡路里的攝取，政府決定對食用糖提高稅率收取。
[4] 答案 B. 2018
解釋：政府計(jì)劃在2018年公布如何處理兒童期肥胖癥的策略。
