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進入《中英對照讀新聞》The fat fight - Study fuels row over UK, U.S. diet guidelines 脂肪之爭──研究引發英美飲食指南爭議
◎李信漢
Nutrition and health specialists criticized a study which argued that dietary fat advice given in the United States and Britain was based on flimsy evidence and should not have been introduced.
營養和健康專家批評一項研究，該項研究辯稱美國和英國的飲食脂肪攝取建議，係立基於薄弱的證據之上，並主張根本不應引介這種觀念。
The study said the advice on fat consumption issued to millions of Britons and Americans in 1977 and 1983 with the aim of reducing heart disease "lacked any solid trial evidence to back it up".
這項研究說，旨在減少心臟疾病、而於1977年和1983年對數以百萬計英國人及美國人發表的脂肪攝取建議，「缺乏任何嚴謹的實驗證據支持」。
But in the latest chapter of a long-running row about whether fat is the true culprit in the global obesity epidemic, independent experts said the research was flawed and failed "to take into account the totality of the evidence".
但在這項長久以來爭論不休的議題「脂肪是否為全球肥胖流行病的真凶」的最新發展中，獨立專家說，前述批評飲食指南的研究是有問題的，未能「在整體上將證據納入考量」。
Both the British and U.S. dietary guidelines recommended reducing overall dietary fat consumption to 30 percent of total intake and limiting saturated fat to around 10 percent -- advice that has remained broadly the same since the 1970s and 1980s.
英國和美國的飲食指南建議，將總食用脂肪攝取量減至30％，並將飽和脂肪限制在約10％－－從1970和1980年代以來大致相同。
Health experts looking for clues to persistently rising obesity rates around the world have recently begun to question whether fat is the main, or only, villain, and many are turning a spotlight on sugars and other carbohydrates instead. (Reuters)
健康專家一直在尋找全球肥胖率不斷攀升的線索，最近他們開始質疑脂肪是主要或唯一的凶手，許多人將注意力移轉到糖和其他碳水化合物上。（路透）
新聞辭典
flimsy：形容詞，薄弱的。例句：They have only the flimsiest of evidence against him.（他們只有這個薄弱的證據去反駁他。）
row：動詞，爭吵。例句：They were rowing again.（他們又再次爭吵。）
villain：名詞，壞人、罪犯。例句：Don’t try to make me the villain. It’s your own fault that you’re having these problems.（不要讓我當壞人。這是你們自己的錯誤，是你們有這些問題。）
