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近年来，对于脂肪是导致肥胖的元凶这一说法有了越来越多的质疑，甚至有营养学家指出碳水化合物才是致人发胖的罪魁祸首，而脂肪有益无害。然而，这些说法都还有待时间来证明。可以确定的是，注重饮食健康永远都没有错。

Eating Fat Will Not Make You Fat?
摄入脂肪不会发胖？

A new report claims eating fat does not make you fat, saturated fat is not bad for the heart and advice to lower cholesterol is plain wrong.

Nutritionists and public health experts are in meltdown over the report claiming that fat is good for us. Against the conventional thinking, the National Obesity Forum and a new group calling itself the Public Health Collaboration, say eating fat, including butter, cheese and meat, will help people lose weight and combat type 2 diabetes and that the official advice is plain wrong.

A furious Public Health England has come out with all guns blazing. It says this is “irresponsible and misleads the public” and most of the public health establishment agrees.

It is the latest battle in the food wars and will not be the last. It may seem obvious that we are what we eat, but scientists struggle to work out exactly what that means. Sugar, by now, is well known to be the enemy of good health. Few outside of the food and soft drinks industry argue over that any more. However, the effects of fat—and importantly, different kinds of fats—are strongly contested . The current dispute demonstrates , if nothing else, how passionate the debate over nutrition can be and how difficult it is to reach any sort of simple truth.

一份新的报告声称，摄入脂肪不会使你变得肥胖，饱和脂肪对心脏也并无害处，而且减少胆固醇的建议是完全错误的。

营养学家和公共卫生专家对脂肪有益于我们的说法感到十分崩溃。全国肥胖论坛和一个自称是公共卫生合作的新组织打破了传统观念，称摄入包括黄油、奶酪和肉类在内的脂肪能够帮助人们减肥，还能对抗Ⅱ型糖尿病，并直言官方建议大错特错。

英国公共卫生部门愤怒回击，称“这是不负责任的言辞，并且误导公众”。大部分公共卫生组织对此纷纷表示赞同。

这是食品行业的新一场战争，而且也绝不会是最后一场。很显然，我们的饮食决定了我们的健康，但科学家们努力找出其中的关联。目前来看，大部分人承认糖类是健康的天敌。除了食品和软饮行业外，其他行业对此都少有争议。然而，脂肪——更重要的是，不同种类的脂肪——它们的作用还备受争议。从最近的争论中可以看出，关于营养学的辩论十分激烈，想要达到统一的观点是十分困难的。

巧记词汇

cholesterol [kəˈlestərɒl]

n.胆固醇

拓 fatty substance 脂肪性物质

conventional [kənˈvenʃənl]

a.传统的；常见的

拓 normal [ˈnɔːml]

a.平常的

combat [ˈkɒmbæt]

v.与……对抗

拓 ﬁght [faɪt]

v.与……作斗争

diabetes [ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz]

n.糖尿病

拓 diagnose [ˈdaɪəɡnəʊz]

v.诊断

furious [ˈfjʊəriəs]

a.满腔愤怒的

拓 angry [ˈæŋɡri]

a.愤怒的

contest [ˈkɒntest]

v.争论

拓 dispute [dɪˈspjuːt]

n./v.争论

demonstrate [ˈdemənstreɪt]

v.证明

拓 show [ʃəʊ]

v.表明

nutrition [njuˈtrɪʃn]

n.营养

拓 nutritional [njuˈtrɪʃənl]

a.有营养的

趣学短语

1 work out 解决；实现

[例]If something is not going well in your life, thinking happy thoughts will help you change your moods and things will hopefully be worked out soon. 假如你的生活中有什么事情进展不顺，回想一些幸福快乐的事情会帮助你调整情绪状态，问题也有望很快得到解决。

2 argue over 为……争论，辩论

[例]Scientists are still arguing over the best way to deal with global warming. 科学家对应对全球变暖的最佳办法仍然争执不休。