21
05-2018
晚上好！欢迎收听今天的BBC英语
爱学英语的你，会看到甜点就走不动吗？甜食的风险可不少呢。睡前听一段纯正的英文朗读，一起健康生活吧。
研究发现食糖过量会引起一系列相关疾病。
本期话题我们聊聊
过量食糖的隐患和平衡饮食的重要性。
Sweet or savoury? What kind of tastes do you like? If like me, you have a sweet tooth, you probably can't resist eating cakes, biscuits or chocolate and will sweeten your tea or coffee with spoonfuls of sugar — delicious! But the taste makes it very easy to ignore the warnings that too much of the white stuff is bad for our health.
Consuming sugar is an addiction — the more we eat, the more we want. Today's processed food, like ready meals, is laced with the stuff and many fizzy drinks contain seven teaspoons of sugar in just one can. In the UK, statistics show that sugar consumption is at its highest level in history and the government is trying to get the food industry to cut the amount of sugar in popular products like chocolate bars by 20 percent by 2020.
Of course, sugary food tastes nice, it can help lift our mood, and the glucose in it can give us an energy boost.
But there are dangers too: a high-sugar diet is linked to obesity, and being overweight can increase the risk of getting type 2 diabetes. With these warning signs, I have considered changing my diet by replacing sugary snacks with fruit and savoury biscuits — but that's boring, I need my sugar fix!
I'm not alone. BBC journalist Radhika Shanghani, has gone one step further.
Encouraged by some celebrities and nutritionists promoting a 'zero tolerance' approach to sugar, she gave it up altogether, thinking it would make her healthier.
Initially she says, 'My first fortnight involves mood swings worse than puberty. I have agonizing headaches and feel permanently hungover.'
These symptoms disappeared but she still found food shopping hard as she was stressing about buying the right things.
Her experiment wasn't a success. She eventually sought advice from Susan Jebb, professor of diet and population health at Oxford University who said: 'Lots of people enjoy sugar and gain pleasure from it, so one has to find a balance between enjoyment and eating the right amount.'
There are health benefits of cutting down sugar such as improving dental care and reducing weight gain, but there's no need to be obsessive about it. Eating some sugar as part of a balanced diet is fine and exercising will help burn it off.
So rather than dealing with your sugar cravings by cutting it out of your diet altogether, why not work on your willpower and learn to say 'no' to a second serving of chocolate fudge cheesecake.
savoury
咸的
sweet tooth
喜好甜食
addiction
上瘾
processed food
加工食品
lace
（偷偷地）给（食物或饮品）掺
glucose
葡萄糖
obesity
肥胖（症）
overweight
肥胖的，超重的
Type 2 diabetes
二型糖尿病
fix
用量（幽默的说法）
nutritionist
营养学家
zero tolerance
零容忍政策
mood swings
情绪波动
puberty
青春期
hungover
宿醉的
symptom
症状
a balance
平衡
dental care
牙科护理
weight gain
体重增加
obsessive
过分的
craving
难以抑制的渴求
willpower
意志力
联系客服
