美国政府建议禁止加工食品使用人造反式脂肪

 　　美国政府建议禁止加工食品使用人造反式脂肪

　　With so many foods to choose from, it can be hard to navigate¹. And we're going to try to figure out what's murky² in these ingredients because sometimes it says it has no trans fats and it might have trans fats. Not all the foods here have trans fats in them. That's not what we're saying. We have a variety here. And some of this is my favorite diet. So I want to bring in the experts now.

　　Joining me in studio is Alexis Towersey. She's a personal trainer and lifestyle coach. And on Skype, from Charlotte, North Carolina, is Vani Hari, the creator of foodbabe.com. so If I call her food babe, don't get offended. She's calls herself the food babe. Foodbabe.com.

　　Alexis, I want to start with you. Let's begin with out stomachs and the products in front of us. Because it's a little murky because sometimes it says it doesn't have it, but it does.

　　- Yeah, but when the FDA first said that, you know, food manufacturing companies had to basically put the food labeling on there and tell you how much fat and trans fat was actually in a product, even though it says zero grams of trans fat on there, it doesn't necessarily means it has zero grams of trans fat.

　　- Like this. My executive producer and I, Vickie Russell, were, like, this was our diet growing up. In our lunch pail, we had Funyuns or Cheetos or whatever. It says zero trans fats and when you go down there it says hydrogenated soybean oil. Does that mean trans fats?

　　-  Yes. Partially³ hydrogenated oils are trans fats. So the regulations state that the food labels must have the trans fat amount on there, but if it is under  0.5 grams, they don't actually have to declare it. It could zero grams trans fats but if you go on to the ingredients it may say partially hydrogenated oils.

　　- If we look at this. oh, my gosh. Do you remember honey buns, right? This honey bun has 0.5 grams of trans fats. Do they have to declare that?

　　- No. They don't have to declare anything less than 0.5. So, here's where the tricky⁴ situation comes in, is if you eat more than one serving, you could get more than a gram or maybe four or five grams of trans fat in one serving. And one popular product that has trans fat is microwave popcorn⁵. I don't know when the last time you ate popcorn, Don, but I don't eat one cup, I eat one bowl. This is a real concern that trans fats are still allowed in foods when the label says zero.

　　- Here you go. Because I went and bought this today just for this prop⁶ and I opened it and -

　　- And you ate it?

　　-Rosa Perez -- Rosa Flores -- Rosa Perez, I can't believe I called her that. Rosa and I ate this popcorn as soon as we opened it, as soon as we got it here. Listen, Vani, why does it taste so good and it's so bad for you?

　　-Well, you know, the thing is, is trans fat inherently doesn't taste that different than real fat. What trans fat's does is it allowed food companies to create a shelf-stable oil that stays on the shelf forever basically and allows --

　　-But what's wrong with that, then? What's wrong with that?

　　- Well, what's wrong with that, it's clogging⁷ our arteries⁸. It's causing up to two -- I'm sorry, 20,000 heart attacks a year and up to 7,000 deaths. I mean, just a 40-calorie increase of trans fat in your diet increases your heart rate risk -- heart disease rate risk to 23 percent. That's an astronomical⁹.

　　- OK.

　　- We should be, I mean, eating really healthy fats.

　　-Listen, if Rosa and I only eat these once a month or once every three months or what have you, it's moderation, what's the big deal?

　　- No trans fats are good for you. Like, no trans fats are good for you. You can't argue for it in any way. There's no nutritional¹⁰ value. And you could make a better alternative by yourself.

　　- But Vodka isn't good for you, but if I have a couple glasses of vodka, what is it --

　　- Well, I guess, no one's perfect. But the thing is people don't realize you can eat the same foods, you just have to be really aware of how you're preparing it. You just have to prepare it differently.

1 navigate   

v.航行，飞行；导航，领航

参考例句：

• He was the first man to navigate the Atlantic by air.他是第一个飞越大西洋的人。
• Such boats can navigate on the Nile.这种船可以在尼罗河上航行。

2 murky   

adj.黑暗的，朦胧的；adv.阴暗地，混浊地；n.阴暗；昏暗

参考例句：

• She threw it into the river's murky depths.她把它扔进了混浊的河水深处。
• She had a decidedly murky past.她的历史背景令人捉摸不透。

3 partially   

adv.部分地，从某些方面讲

参考例句：

• The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
• The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静，宵禁部分解除。

4 tricky   

adj.狡猾的，奸诈的；(工作等)棘手的，微妙的

参考例句：

• I'm in a rather tricky position.Can you help me out?我的处境很棘手，你能帮我吗？
• He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.他回避了这个非常微妙的问题，只做了个笼统的表述。

5 popcorn   

n.爆米花

参考例句：

• I like to eat popcorn when I am watching TV play at home.当我在家观看电视剧时，喜欢吃爆米花。
• He still stood behind his cash register stuffing his mouth with popcorn.他仍站在收银机后，嘴里塞满了爆米花。

6 prop   

vt.支撑；n.支柱，支撑物；支持者，靠山

参考例句：

• A worker put a prop against the wall of the tunnel to keep it from falling.一名工人用东西支撑住隧道壁好使它不会倒塌。
• The government does not intend to prop up declining industries.政府无意扶持不景气的企业。

7 clogging   

堵塞，闭合

参考例句：

• This process suffers mainly from clogging the membrane. 这种过程的主要问题是滤膜的堵塞。
• And you know that eyewitness that's been clogging up the airwaves? 你知道那个充斥着电视广播的目击证人？

8 arteries   

n.动脉( artery的名词复数 )；干线，要道

参考例句：

• Even grafting new blood vessels in place of the diseased coronary arteries has been tried. 甚至移植新血管代替不健康的冠状动脉的方法都已经试过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• This is the place where the three main arteries of West London traffic met. 这就是伦敦西部三条主要交通干线的交汇处。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 astronomical   

adj.天文学的，（数字）极大的

参考例句：

• He was an expert on ancient Chinese astronomical literature.他是研究中国古代天文学文献的专家。
• Houses in the village are selling for astronomical prices.乡村的房价正在飙升。

10 nutritional   

adj.营养的，滋养的

参考例句：

• A diet lacking in nutritional value will not keep a person healthy.缺乏营养价值的饮食不能维持人的健康。
• The labels on food products give a lot of information about their nutritional content.食品上的标签提供很多关于营养成分的信息。