外國人最想和你聊的文化話題：垃圾食品

     Americans on the go also tend to eat a lot of "junk food". Potato chips, candy bars, soft drinks and other goodies are popular treats.
     忙碌的美國人也趨向于吃一大堆"垃圾食物"。土豆片、糖果、汽水和其他好吃的東西都頗受歡迎。
     Banana chips-they are sometimes covered in sugar and most likely fried in coconut oil, so they have crazy amounts of fat.
     香蕉片--香蕉片中往往含有大量的糖分，而且很可能是經(jīng)椰油炸制而成的，所以其中的脂肪"數(shù)不勝數(shù)"。
     Watch out because even one serving of banana chips can have the same amount of calories as potato chips. There is also more saturated fat than you get from a large order of french fries.
     你要當(dāng)心，因為一份香蕉片中的卡路里（熱量）和一份薯條一樣多。而且你從中吸收的飽和脂肪甚至還要多于一份大薯條呢。
     Yogurt-covered raisins-the coating on the raisins is hardly even yogurt. It has yogurt powder but it is mostly made up of sugar and palmkernel oil-and all the fat is mostly saturated.
     酸乳酪葡萄干--包裹在葡萄干外面的其實并不是普通的酸乳酪。那其中確實含有一部分酸乳酪粉，但主要成分確是糖和棕櫚核油，而且脂肪也以飽和脂肪為主。
     Mothers who eat junk food during pregnancy and while breastfeeding have obesity-prone children, rat studies suggest.
     對老鼠的研究使人聯(lián)想到：母親在懷孕期間以及在哺乳時食用垃圾食品，可能造成有肥胖傾向的孩子。
     Once weaned, the offspring of junk-food-fed mothers prefer junk foods more than the offspring of rats fed a healthy diet during pregnancy.
     一旦斷奶，用垃圾食品喂養(yǎng)的母親的后代，比在懷孕期間喂以健康飲食的老鼠的后代更喜歡垃圾食品。
     Junk food is made to have tastes and textures that appeal to children. And it's heavily advertised, which also affects a child's preferences.
     垃圾食品做得具有吸引兒童的味道和質(zhì)地。而且它大量地做廣告，這也影響到孩子的喜好。
     Taxing high-fat and sugary junk-food is an effective way to fight obesity.
     對高脂肪、高糖分的垃圾食物征稅有助于打擊肥胖。
     Junk food advertisements account for two-thirds of televised advertisements for food which are shown when children are likely to be watching.
     在孩子們喜歡看的節(jié)目播放的時候，垃圾食品廣告占去電視食品廣告的三分之二。
     Children today are eating more and more junk food and we are slowly getting into a diet crisis.
     如今的孩子，垃圾食品吃得越來越多，我們已經(jīng)逐漸進入了飲食危機。
     92% of children consume more saturated fat than is recommended.
     92%的孩子攝入的飽和脂肪要高于身體所需水平。
     The Chief Medical Officer has compared the crisis in children's diets to a health "time bomb" which must be defused.
     首席醫(yī)學(xué)專家將孩子的飲食危機比作危害健康的"定時炸彈"，必須加以移除。
     Children's dietary health, in particular childhood obesity, is widely recognized as one of our most pressing public health problems.
     兒童的飲食健康，尤其是兒童肥胖問題，被廣泛認(rèn)為是我們當(dāng)今社會最緊迫的健康問題之一。
     Children are constantly bombarded with junk food marketing.￡480m is spent each year advertising products high in fat, salt and sugar on television alone.
     孩子們常常遭到垃圾食品市場的狂轟濫炸，每年廠商花4.8億英鎊在電視上為脂肪、鹽和糖含量極高的垃圾食品做廣告。
     Junk food marketing contradicts all the messages about healthy eating children receive, undermining their ability to choose better food and their parents' efforts to feed them healthily.
     垃圾食品的營銷方式和孩子們所知道的健康飲食習(xí)慣背道而馳，從而降低了他們選擇更健康食物的辨別能力，而且也削弱了父母想要自己孩子飲食健康而做的努力。
     Research by the Food Standard's Agency, and others, has shown that junk food advertising directly and indirectly influences children's food preferences, purchasing behavior and consumption.
     食物標(biāo)準(zhǔn)機構(gòu)和其他一些組織的研究顯示，垃圾食品的廣告都在直接或間接地影響孩子對食物的偏好、購買以及消耗。
     A series of surveys have demonstrated that the majority of parents are in favour of a protecting their children from junk food advertising.
     一系列的調(diào)查顯示，大多數(shù)家長都希望自己的孩子可以免受垃圾食品廣告的干擾。
     A recent British Heart Foundation survey found that 68% of parents were in favour of pre-9pm junk food advertising restrictions, with only 7% against.
     英國心臟基金會最近的調(diào)查顯示，68%的家長贊成對每晚9點之前的垃圾廣告進行限制，而只有7%的家長反對該提議。
     Junk food typically contains high levels of fat, salt, or sugar and numerous food additives such as monosodium glutamate and tartrazine; at the same time, it is lacking in proteins, vitamins and fiber.
     垃圾食品通常含有高脂肪、鹽或糖，如味精、食品添加劑檸檬黃，同時缺乏蛋白質(zhì)，維生素和纖維，