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As a nutritionist, I've spent my career
作为营养学家 我一直在研究
researching how what we eat determines what we are.
我们摄入的食物如何影响我们自身
Of course, we now know that eating the right kind of food
当然 我们现在知道合理摄入食物
is crucial for good health,
对健康至关重要
but it's only relatively1 recently we've taken that as read.
但只在不久前 我们才开始将其奉为真知
The greatest impact of the change in
当今社会普遍的肥胖症
our eating habits is the modern-day epidemic2 of obesity3.
就是我们饮食习惯变化后最显著的影响
In just a couple of generations, we've gone from suffering from
仅仅过了几代人 我们就从
the diseases of poverty
因挨饿饱尝病痛
to being afflicted4 by the diseases of excess.
走向因饮食无度而疾病缠身
But it's surprising how
但令人惊讶的是
long it's taken scientists to understand the
科学家们花了这么长时间
true causes of obesity and
才弄清我们的饮食习惯
the real connection to our eating habits.
与肥胖的成因实际上有何种联系
Since it was launched on the airwaves 45 years ago,
自四十五年前开播以来
Horizon has attempted to understand this connection too,
地平线栏目一直致力于了解两者的联系
and has charted science's
同时记录下科学手段
attempts to change how our food is produced,
尝试改变食物生产方式的种种努力
initially5 to combat the real problem
以及与人口爆炸式增长
of an exploding population with not enough to eat
带来的食品匮乏问题展开的搏斗
as well as trying to unearth6 how and why
同时试图揭开这些变化为何 及怎样
these changes have impacted so disastrously7 on our health.
对我们的健康造成如此灾难性的影响
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n.流行病;盛行;adj.流行性的,流传极广的 | |
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n.肥胖,肥大 | |
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4 afflicted | |
使受痛苦,折磨( afflict的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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6 unearth | |
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