Spotlight on obee kid！
Children are getting o fat they may be the firt generation to die before their parent, an expert claimed yeterday.
Today' youngter are already falling prey to potential killer uch a diabete becaue of their weight.
Fatty fat-food diet combined with edentary lifetyle dominated by televiion and computer could mean kid will die tragically young, ay Profeor Andrew Prentice, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
At the ame time, the hape of the human body i going through a huge evolutionary hift becaue adult are getting o fat.
Here in Britain, latet reearch how that the average wait ize for a man i 36-38in and may be 42-44in by 2032. Thi compare with only 32.6in in 1972.
Women' wait have grown from an average of 22in in 1920 to 24 in in the Fiftie and 30in now.
One of the major reaon why children now are at greater rik i that we are getting fatter younger.
In the UK alone, more than one million under-16 are claed a overweight or obee - double the number in the mid-Eightie. One in ten four-year-old are alo medically claified a obee.
The obeity pandemic - an extenive epidemic - which tarted in the US, ha now pread to Europe, Autralaia, Central America and the Middle Eat.
Many nation now record more than 20 per cent of their population a clinically obee and well over half the population a overweight.WWw.hAOzuowEn.com
Prof Prentice aid the change in our hape ha been caued by a glut of eaily available high-energy food combined with a dramatic drop in the energy we ue a a reult of technology development.
He i not alone in hi concern. Only lat week one medical journal revealed how obeity wa fuelling a rie in cancer cae.
Obeity alo increae the rik factor for troke and heart dieae a well a a diabete.
An averagely obee peron' lifepan i hortened by around nine year while a everely obee peron by many more.
Prof Prentice aid: "So will parent outlive their children, a claimed recently by an American obeity pecialit?
"The anwer i ye - and no. Ye, when the offpring become groly obee. Thi i now becoming an alarmingly common occurrence in the US.
"Such children and adolecent have a greatly reduced quality of life in term of both their phyical and pychoocial health."
So ay No to that doughnut and burger.
现在的孩子们正变得越来越胖，以至于他们可能成为先他们父母而去的第一代。这是一位专家昨天所发表的观点。
由于过于肥胖，现在的孩子们已经变成了一些潜在病魔的猎物，糖尿病就是其中之一。
伦敦卫生及热带医学学院的安德鲁·普伦蒂斯教授认为，脂肪含量过高的快餐饮食，加上电视和电脑使得孩子们养成了久坐不动的生活方式，极有可能大大缩短年轻一代的寿命。
与此同时，人类的体形正在发生着革命性的变化，因为成人们正越长越胖。
最新的研究表明，1972年，英国男性的平均腰围仅为32.6英寸，目前是36-38英寸，到2032年，可能达到42-44英寸。
女性的平均腰围则从1920年的22英寸增加到50年代的24英寸，现在，则是30英寸。
为什么现在的孩子们面临着比我们更大的危险呢？原因之一就在于，他们发胖的年龄比我们早的多。
仅仅在英国，就有100多万16岁以下的儿童被归为超重或者肥胖一族，比80年代中期多了一倍。每10个四岁的孩子中就有1个有医学上的肥胖症状。
这股源于美国的肥胖风正在蔓延开来，现在已经传遍了欧洲，澳大利亚，美洲中部和中东。
目前许多国家记录在案的超重人口已经占到总人数的一半以上，其中达到医学上所定义的肥胖的就有20%。
普伦蒂斯教授说，导致我们体形变化的原因是，现代生活中高热量食物随处可见，随手可得，而科技的发展使得人们每天消耗的热量却大大减少。
并非只有普伦蒂斯教授关注这一问题。就在上周，某一医学杂志还谈到了肥胖对于癌症的影响问题。
肥胖还会增加中风、心脏疾病和糖尿病的发病率。
一个中等肥胖者的寿命将被缩短大约9年，而一个严重肥胖者受到的影响更大。
普伦蒂斯教授说，"是否真的象美国专家预测的那样，孩子们的寿命会比他们的父母还短呢？"
"答案既是"是"， 也是"不是"。说"是"是因为如果下一代继续"疯长"，就有可能比他们的父母寿命还短。说"不是"则因为这种现象已经引起了美国民众的警惕。"
"过度肥胖者，不管你是是成人还是青少年，你的生活质量都会大打折扣，无论在生理上还是心理上。"
所以，就让我们向油炸圈和夹肉饼说"不"吧。
英政府机构认为应给5岁儿童开设性教育课
Children a young a five hould have compulory ex education at chool, ay Government advier.
Leon would go far further than teaching the baic, with in-depth dicuion for older children on exually tranmitted dieae, contraception and peer preure to have ex.
Primary chool children aged five to 11 would be encouraged to dicu their feeling and emotion about ex.
The Independent Adviory Group on Sexual Health and Teenage Pregnancy blame the current ytem, where chool decide whether to teach ex education to under-11, for muddled knowledge among mot primary pupil.
More open, informative and detailed leon would help tackle high rate of teenage pregnancy, they ay.
They want legilation to make Peronal, Social and Health Education compulory. It would include ex and relationhip, with dicuion on topic uch a dealing with peer preure, where to get condom and how infection uch a chlamydia and genital wart are paed on.
Younger pupil would focu on the emotional iue aociated with relationhip, with only econdary pupil getting more detailed information on exual activity and it conequence.
The report, ent to miniter at the Department of Health and Education, how teenage pregnancy in Liverpool, Bradford and Hackney, Eat London, fell after chool there introduced ex education clae. Labour peer Joyce Gould, who chaired the group, aid the propoal would not lead to more promicuity.
英政府机构认为应给5岁儿童开设性教育必修课
英国政府机构日前建议，应该让5岁的小学生开始接受正规的性教育课程，鼓励他们讨论性知识。
据《镜报》12月5日报道，英国政府青少年性健康和怀孕问题独立顾问小组撰写报告指出，现行的英国性教育体制由学校自行决定是否向11岁以下的学生进行性教育，这种体制是有损学生健康和成长的，应当予以改革；学校应该给5岁至11岁的小学生开设性教育必修课，鼓励他们讨论性知识。青少年性健康和怀孕问题独立顾问小组成员是来自英国医疗行业、性行为以及青少年性健康领域的42名专家。
该小组建议，学生的性教育课程应不仅仅教授基本的两性生理和卫生知识，而应就性行为、性心理进行更多深入的讨论，例如如何应对同伴性要求、如何避孕以及避免性病的传播等；其中小学生将被教授如何处理人与人之间的相互关系，中学生才会被教授具体的性行为知识和后果。
该小组指出，更加开放、丰富和详细的性教育课程将改善英国少女怀孕率居高不下的现状。
报道说，英国每年新增几十万少女妈妈。她们中多数都会把孩子生下来，而其中有一成甚至还不满16岁。这个数字在欧洲高居榜首，更是比公认的性开放国家荷兰高了将近5倍。而瑞典是性教育开展得较成功的国家，从幼儿园开始到高中有一套系统完整的教育内容和体系，收到了比较好的效果。
自1976年开始，瑞典少女妊娠和人工流产数字明显下降，性病和性犯罪发生率也逐步减少，“未婚母亲家庭”几乎消失。
报道说，青少年性健康和怀孕问题独立顾问小组已经将这份报告递交给了健康教育部。(
关注留守儿童
Protecting our children
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-02-29 07:26
保护我们的孩子
——关注留守儿童 来自《中国日报》
If we eriouly believe the oft-made claim that children are future of the country, then we truly have omething to worry about.
如果我们还相信“孩子是祖国的未来”这句被反复提及的宣言，那么我们是该有一些担心了。
The All-China Women' Federation (ACWF) report on the condition of children left behind by parent working away from home paint a grim picture that we cannot afford to undertate.
全国妇女联合会关于留守儿童（父母在外务工，儿童留守家中）状况的报告为我们描绘了一幅不可等闲视之的惨淡图景。
Many of u have heard about the o-called left-behind children. But not a many people could have anticipated what the ACWF report reveal - more than a quarter of Chinee children who are 17 or younger live apart from one or both of their parent becaue they are working in place other than in their hometown.
许多人都听到过所谓的留守儿童一词。但是不会有多少人估计到全国妇联报告中结识的真实状况——在中国，四分之一以上的17岁以下儿童由于他们的父母一人或全部在异乡打工而留守家中。
Thi i no mall matter. 这并不是一件无足轻重的事情。
In the eye of developmental pychology, the early year of life play an eential part not jut in forming one' peronality, but alo in the acquiition of the knowledge and kill that lat a peron' entire life. Out of repect for their pecial vulnerability, children in thi age group need particular parental care. Few of thoe left behind are home alone - mot are left in the cutody of grandparent - but the eparation from their parent will inevitably affect their development in le-than-poitive way.
在发展心理学看来，青少年时期对于一个人性格的形成和知识技能的掌握发挥着重要的作用并将影响其一生。出于对其心理脆弱特点的考虑，这一时期的儿童尤其需要父母的关怀。除了极少数独守家中，大部分留守儿童有他们的祖父母监护，但是远离父母仍将不可避免地对他们的成长产生诸多消极的影响。
The ACWF ha pearheaded a erie of initiative to promote awarene of the ituation. Thank to it peritent endeavor, variou countermeaure are now at work in different communitie.
全国妇联已经率先开展了一系列活动以提高对这种形势的认识。由于他们不懈的努力，许多相似的活动已经在不同的社团开展起来。
It i inpiring to ee local authoritie providing welfare and educational guarantee. Such effort offer an indipenable compenation for the otherwie unbearable ene of lo thee youngter mut cope with a a reult of living without parental care.
鼓舞人心的是许多地区政府正在努力为他们提供生活和教育方面的保障。这些努力对于这些留守儿童因远离父母而造成的难以承受的缺失感也是一种必要的慰籍。
But parent are parent. No outide intervention can take their place to enure the healthy growth of their children, o it would be ideal if fewer children had to live without their parent around.
可怜天下父母心。没有什么能够取代孩子的健康成长在他们心目中的位置。那么让更少的孩子离开他们的父母生活将使我们的理想。
Mot Chinee parent foter high hope for their children. They are tirele cutodian, keen on offering meticulou care and upport o that their children can lead ucceful career and live.
大多数中国父母对自己的孩子都怀有很高的希望。他们是孜孜不倦的监护人，始终给予孩子无微不至的关怀和支持，一切为了让自己的孩子有一分成功的事业和一个光辉的人生。
Few parent leave their children home becaue they want to dodge reponibilitie. It i more a matter of neceity. Mot parent of left-behind children take job in citie, where local chool are uppoed to focu on erving regitered local reident. Non-reident are either left out or face extra charge, which are uually exorbitant even by urban tandard.
很少有父母是为了逃避责任而把自己的孩子留在家中。更确切地说那是一件不得以的事。大多数留守儿童的父母在城市工作，而当地的学校则主要招收有当地户口的孩子。非城市的学生或者被拒之门外，或者要交纳通常高于城市标准的借读费。
In uch circumtance, mot parent chooe to leave their kid at home, where they can receive affordable chooling.
在这种情况下，大多数父母选择将孩子留在家乡，因为那里的学费才是他们能够承担的。
Thi i yet another demontration of the embarraing mimatch between the ytem and reality.
这也从另一个方面体现了体制与现实之间令人尴尬的不和谐。
研究：肥胖也传染
If your friend and family get fat, chance are you will too, reearcher report in a new tudy that ugget obeity i "ocially contagiou" and can pread eaily from peron to peron.
The large, federally funded tudy found that to be true even if your loved one lived far away. Social tie eemed to play a urpriingly h2 role, even more than gene are known to do.
"We were tunned to find that friend who are hundred of mile away have jut a much impact on a peron' weight tatu a friend who are right next door," aid co-author Jame Fowler of the Univerity of California, San Diego.
The tudy found a peron' chance of becoming obee went up 57 percent if a friend did, 40 percent if a ibling did and 37 percent if a poue did.
Reearcher think it' more than jut people with imilar eating and exercie habithanging outtogether. Intead, it may be that having relative and friend who become obee change one' idea of what i an acceptableweight.
Depite their finding, the reearcher aid people hould not ever theirrelationhip.
"There i a ton of reearch that ugget that having more friend make you healthier," Fowler aid. "So the lat thing that you want to do i get rid of any of your friend."
The tudy wa publihed in Thurday' New England Journal ofMedicineand funded by the National Intitute on Aging.
Obeity i a global public health problem. About 1.5 billion adult worldwide are overweight, including more than 400 million who are obee. Two-third of American are either overweight or obee.
Much of the recent reearch focu ha been on the intene hunt for obeity gene involved in appetite or calorie burning. Treatment ha been mainly centered on helping individual curb their weight through better diet and fitne.
The finding could open a new avenue for treating thi worldwide epidemic. The reearcher aid it might be helpful to treat obee people in group intead of jut the individual.
"Becaue people are interconnected, their health i interconnected," aid lead author Dr. Nichola Chritaki, a Harvard ociologit.
如果你的朋友和家人发胖了，你也得小心了！一项最新研究表明，肥胖具有“社会传染性”，很容易在人与人之间传播。
该项由联邦政府资助的大规模研究发现，即使亲朋好友住得很远，这种情况也不可避免。社会联系对这一问题的影响十分显著，甚至超过基因。
研究报告的撰写者之一、圣地亚哥加州大学的詹姆斯·福勒说：“我们惊讶的发现，住在几百英里远的朋友对一个人体重的影响与住在隔壁的朋友同样大。”
研究发现，如果一个人的朋友发胖，那么这个人发胖的几率会上升57%；如果他的兄弟姐妹发胖，他发胖的几率会增加40%；如果配偶发胖，他发胖的几率则会增加37%。
研究人员认为，这并不只是几个饮食和锻炼习惯相似的人总呆在一起造成的，可能是因为亲朋好友发胖会改变一个人对于“可接受体重”的概念。
尽管有了这些新发现，研究人员称友谊还是应该维持的。
福勒说：“大量研究表明，朋友越多，你的健康状况会越好。所以，与朋友断交是最不应该的。”
该项研究由国家老龄问题研究所资助，其结果在周四的《新英格兰医学杂志》上发表。
肥胖是一个全球性的公共健康问题。全世界约有15亿成年人超重，其中约4亿多肥胖。三分之二的美国人超重或肥胖。
目前大多数研究的重点都是寻找与食欲或热量消耗有关的肥胖基因。对于肥胖的治疗方式也主要是通过更合理的饮食和健身来控制体重。
该项研究结果可能将为治疗这一全球性的“流行病”提供新的方法。研究人员称，对肥胖者进行小组治疗可能比个体治疗有效。
研究报告主要撰写者、哈佛大学社会学家尼古拉斯·克里斯塔基斯博士说：“因为人与人是互相联系的，所以他们的健康也联系在一起。”
短篇英语作文[91]儿童乐园
The Children’ Playground【儿童乐园】
Right next to Taipei Zoo i children' playground.
It i alway very crowded and noiy there on holiday.
Lat time on Teacher’ Day my iter and I had free ticket to go there,
and we took two mall children with u.
When we got there were o many people there that we were very careful not to let the children get lot.
There were free balloon given to mall kid.
There were many different amuement ride,
but at all the ride there were long line of people. Therefore,
we did not get many ride.
Our two mall companion enjoyed the merry-go-round which i a round turning platform that ha wooden hore on it.
They did not like the airplane ride o much, becaue the peed and high elevation of the plane cared them.
We high a whole afternoon there. By the time we got home,
we were a little tired, but we felt like happy mall children again.
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