Exercise labels on food proposed 英國健康專傢提議食品包裝需註明“運動量”

文字稿

健康專傢呼籲廠商改良食品標簽，在包裝上標出人們要想消耗食物所含熱量，需要做多少運動。英國皇傢公共衛生協會在《英國醫學雜志》上發表的文章中提到，該提議能夠幫助降低肥胖率。以下是 Dominic Hughes 的報道。

Food and drink packaging already contains information such as calories, salt and sugar content, but the Royal Society of Public Health believes many people find this confusing. It’s proposing an additional labelling system – what it calls activity equivalent calorie labelling – linking the calories consumed with the amount of exercise that would need to be done to work them off.

So a can of fizzy drink would take an adult of average height and weight about 26 minutes to walk off, a bowl of cereal, 16 minutes of running. The Food and Drink Federation says it’s an interesting concept that is worth exploring.

Packaging is governed by EU-wide legislation but the Royal Society of Public Health admits that in the absence of detailed research on the impact such labelling may have on consumers at this stage there’s little appetite for such a change.

詞匯表

packaging 包裝
calories 熱量單位卡路裡（復數）
fizzy drink 汽水，碳酸飲料
concept 想法，理念
detailed 詳細的
at this stage 現階段，眼下
there’s little appetite for (something) （市場）對…沒有什麼需求（原意指沒有胃口）

測驗

請聽報道並回答下列問題。

1. How can consumers find out how much sugar there is in the food they eat?

2. True or false? Anybody who drinks a can of fizzy drink can work off the calories by walking for 26 minutes.

3. Is the Food and Drink Federation going to adopt the new labelling soon?

4. What would have to be done to find out how people would respond to the proposed labelling system?

答案

1. How can consumers find out how much sugar there is in the food they eat?
By reading the label on the packaging.

2. True or false? Anybody who drinks a can of fizzy drink can work off the calories by walking for 26 minutes.
False. This is an estimate for someone of average height and weight.

3. Is the Food and Drink Federation going to adopt the new labelling soon?
The article doesn’t say. But the Food and Drink Federation seems to suggest that it’s something to consider because it says the idea is interesting.

4. What would have to be done to find out how people would respond to the proposed labelling system?
Detailed research on the impact it would have on them.