Sweet tooth hazards 爱吃甜食给健康带来的隐患_BBC

Sweet tooth hazards 爱吃甜食给健康带来的隐患

随身英语 Sweet tooth hazards 爱吃甜食给健康带来的隐患

人人都听说过“甜食吃多了对健康有害”。研究发现食糖过量确实会引起一系列相关疾病。本集《随身英语》讲述过量食糖的隐患并讨论平衡饮食的重要性。

课文内容 Vocabulary: health 词汇: 健康

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% 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!