糖飲料殺手

糖飲料殺手
consuming sugar-sweetened beverages causes chronic diseases

a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and lead author of the study presented today at the American Heart Association’s annual meeting in New Orleans.

Singh and colleagues spent five years putting the pieces together. Using data from national health surveys around the world, the team tied sugar-sweetened beverages to 133,000 deaths from diabetes, 44,000 deaths from cardiovascular diseases and 6,000 deaths from cancer in 2010.

The study adds to mounting evidence that sugar-sweetened beverages, loaded with calories that carry little nutritional value, are a public health hazard.

“I think our findings should really impel policymakers to make effective policies to reduce sugary beverage consumption since it causes a significant number of deaths,” said Singh, adding that she thinks “cause” is an appropriate word despite the limitations of the association study.

The American Beverage Association criticized the study, which has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, calling it “more about sensationalism than science.”

“It does not show that consuming sugar-sweetened beverages causes chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease or cancer – the real causes of death among the studied subjects,” the industry group said in a statement. “The researchers make a huge leap when they take beverage intake calculations from around the globe and allege that those beverages are the cause of deaths which the authors themselves acknowledge are due to chronic disease.”

The study comes one week after a judge blocked New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on supersized sodas, and one day after Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill preventing municipalities from setting limits on soda and salt content.

Questions:

1. What are the health effects of drinking soda and sugary drinks?

2. Why sugary drinks are really bad for us?
3. Do you know how much sugar you're eating?
4. Do you have a sugar addiction?
5. Ways to reduce obesity?
6. Do you know any other harmful foods to health?

I.             Words

1.   consume 喝     2. chronic 慢性的      3. postdoctoral 博士學位取得後的     4. fellow 夥伴

5. annual 每年的    6. colleague 同事      7. cardiovascular 心血管的     8. mount 上升 

9. evidence 證據     10. nutritional 營養的     11. hazard 危險     12. impel 推動；迫使

13. significant 重要的     14. appropriate 適當的     15. limitations 限制     

16. sensationalism 譁眾取寵     17. diabetes 糖尿病     18. beverage intake 攝取飲料

19. allege 宣稱；提出      20. propose提議      21. ban 禁令      22. municipality 自治市

II.           Grammar

1.   Singh and colleagues spent five years putting the pieces together.

 ** 花費~

    人 + spend + 時間/金錢 + V-ing

2.   Using data from national health surveys around the world, the team tied sugar-sweetened beverages to 133,000 deaths from diabetes, 44,000 deaths from cardiovascular diseases and 6,000 deaths from cancer in 2010.

 ** 分詞構句

    連接詞 + S + V ~ , S + V ~

(1)          主詞相同， 刪除從屬子句的主詞(即連接詞之後的主詞)

(2)          主詞若不同，兩邊主詞皆留下(稱之為獨立分詞構句)

(3)          連接詞可省略，之後再把動詞變回原形，加上ing(若是being，可省略)

3.   I think our findings should really impel policymakers to make effective policies to reduce sugary beverage consumption since it causes a significant number of deaths.

 ** 迫使/激勵~人去做~事

    S + impel + sb. + to + V ~

 ** since(連接詞) 因為

   S + V ~ since + S + V ~

 ** ~數量: a number of + 複數名詞  /  an amount of + 不可數名詞