抑制肥胖的根本方法

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抑制肥胖的根本方法

肥胖症在英国一直处于逐年增加的趋势，医疗保健费用也大量的消耗在了由于过度肥胖而产生的疾病中。专家认为降低卡路里的摄取量才是最根本能够抑制肥胖症增加的办法。

测试中可能遇到的词汇和知识：

misinform|误传；提供错误消息[mɪsɪn'fɔːm]

combat |反对；与…战斗['kɒmbæt; 'kʌm-]

deliberately|故意地[dɪ'lɪbərətli]

criticize|批评['krɪtɪ,saɪz]

tackle|处理['tæk(ə)l]

strenuous|紧张的；费力的；艰苦的['strenjʊəs]

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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”.

请根据你所读到的文章内容，完成以下自测题目：

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?