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Doctors' Efforts to Fight Childhood Obesity Not Working
医生对少年肥胖问题无晒计？

FRIDAY, Sept. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers are recommending that officials in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia rethink their efforts to combat obesity in children because the current strategies -- emphasizing healthy diets and exercise -- aren't working.
9月4日星期五（“每日健康”新闻报道）——研究人员最近对美国、英国和澳洲的官员提出建议，叫他们重新考虑对于儿童肥胖的战略，因为目前的方案——提倡健康饮食跟加强运动没有显著成效。

Parents said the kids who received counseling drank fewer soft drinks, but they didn't eat more fruit or vegetables or less fat, and they didn't lose significant amounts of weight.
家长们说道，接受减肥咨询的那些小孩会比平时减少喝饮料，但是他们并没有增加吃水果或者蔬菜，减少吃低热量的食物，而且他们的体重并没有明显的变化。

The counseling isn't harmful, the study authors noted, but it doesn't seem to work and is expensive.
研究的发起者指出，对于减肥的那些建议对健康无害，但是它好象没有什么大作用而且费用巨大。

"Resources may be better divided between primary prevention at the community and population levels, and enhancement of clinical treatment options for children with established obesity," the researchers concluded.
“投入（减肥计划）的资源最好划分为——社区内首要的预防（肥胖）计划和人口控制问题。并加强对长期有肥胖问题的儿童提供更多的医疗项目选择。”研究人员最后总结。



Useful Expression

• obesity [Eu‘bisiti] n.肥胖, 肥大

• combat [’kCmbet]
  n.
  战斗, 格斗
  v.
  战斗, 搏斗, 抗击

• counselling [‘kaunsEling] n.
  (对个人,社会以及心理等问题的)咨询服务

• significant [sig’nifikent]
  adj.
  有意义的, 重大的, 重要的
• author n. 作家, 创造者
• divide [di’vaid] v.分, 划分, 分开, 隔开

• enhancement [in‘ha:nsment] n.增进, 增加

• option [’Cp§en] n.选项, 选择权。

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