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Laziness Impacts on Health
懶惰影響人的健康
Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook from scratch? Have you been doing internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What can't you be bothered to do?
你是不是喜歡吃冰箱里的速凍食品而不自己親手做？你是不是常常在網上購物而不去商店？你懶得做的事情是什么呢？
A study into how lazy Brtish people are has found more than half of adults are so idle they'd catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs.
一項針對英國人的懶惰性進行的調查發現，吵過半數的成年人非常懶惰，寧肯乘坐電梯也不愿爬兩層樓梯。
Just over 2,000 people were quizzed by independent researchers at Nuffield Health, Britain's largest health charity. The results were startling.
超過2000人接受了英國最大的健康慈善機構 Nuffield Health 獨立調查員的調查，調查結果令人大吃一驚。
About one in six people surveyed said if their remote control was broken, they would continue watching the same channel rather than get up.
調查顯示，如果遙控器壞了，大約六分之一的人寧肯繼續看原來的頻道也懶得起身去換臺。
More than one third of those questioned said they would not run to catch a bus. Worryingly, of the 654 respondents with children, 64% said they were often too tired to play with them.
超過三分之一的被調查者稱，他們不會跑著去趕一班公交車。更令人擔憂的是，在654名有孩子的受訪者中，64%的聲稱他們經常感到非常疲憊，不愿陪孩子們玩。
This led the report to conclude that it's no wonder that one in six children in the UK are classified as obese before they start school.
調查報告最后總結道，難怪英國六分之一的學前兒童被劃分到極度肥胖類。
Dr Sarah Dauncey, medical director of Nuffield Health, said:" People need to get fitter, not just for their own sake, but for the sake of their families, friends and evidently their pets too. If we don't start to take control of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the most rudimentary of tasks."
Nuffield Health 的醫療主管薩拉·多恩西博士說：“人們有需要變得更加健康，這不僅僅是為他們自己，也是為了他們的家人、朋友，當然還有他們的寵物。如果我們現在不開始注意這個問題，整代人都將變得非常不健康，甚至難以完成最基本的任務。”
And Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, was shamed as the most indolent city in the UK, with 75% surveyed admitting they do not get enough exercise, followed closely by Birmingham and Southampton, both with 67%.
在蘇格蘭最大的城市格拉斯哥，75%的被調查者承認自己缺乏足夠的鍛煉，因此這座城市也被評為英國最懶惰的城市。緊隨其后的是伯明翰和南安普敦，67%的人承認缺少足夠的體育鍛煉。
The results pose serious challenges for the National Health Service, where obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on a steady increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of pounds every year.
調查結果為英國國民健康服務體系提出了嚴重挑戰。過去40年，心臟病和癌癥等與肥胖相關的疾病一直呈穩步上升態勢，每年的醫療費用高達數十億英鎊。
