PDF文件下載
評論
打印【With Physical Activity, No Need to Be an Olympian】
TEXT：This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
這里是美國之音慢速英語健康報道。
Watching the Olympics probably made some people feel a little guilty about not exercising. The truth is, if physical inactivity were a sport, a lot of us could give a gold-medal performance. Or should we say non-performance?
觀看奧運會可能會使一些人對不運動感到有一點愧疚。事實是，如果運動不足算一種體育項目，我們很多人都有金牌級別的表現。或者我們該說是不作為？
To mark the London Olympics, the Lancet, a British medical journal, published a series of papers about this problem. Public health experts say physical inactivity is the world's fourth leading cause of death. They estimate that inactivity plays a major part in six to ten percent of deaths from non-communicable diseases. These include conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and colon and breast cancer.
為了紀念倫敦奧運會，英國醫學雜志《柳葉刀》發表了一系列該問題的論文。公共衛生專家說，缺乏體育運動是世界第四大死因。他們估計，非傳染性疾病占到了死亡原因的60%，而運動不足在非傳染性疾病中又是重要的組成部分。這些包括心臟病、糖尿病、結腸癌和乳腺癌等。
I. Min Lee at the Harvard School of Public Health worked with a team that studied inactivity. She says the findings are conservative and may even underestimate the problem.
哈佛大學公共衛生學院的I. Min Lee與一個研究小組合作研究運動不足。她說，該調查結果比較保守，甚至可能低估了問題。
I. MIN LEE: "Physical inactivity is harmful to health, as harmful as far as deaths are concerned as smoking."
I. MIN LEE：“運動不足對健康有害，與造成死亡，和吸煙一樣受到關注。”
The researchers compared data on physical inactivity with disease rates in one hundred twenty-two countries.
研究人員比較了122個國家運動不足發病率的數據。
I. MIN LEE: "So when we did our analysis, we looked at increased risk of disease after taking into account other health habits that might be associated with physical activity. For example, we know that if you are active, you probably smoke less. Additionally we factored out obesity, independent of the fact that active people also tend to weigh less."
I. MIN LEE：“所以，當我們做分析時，在考慮了可能和體育鍛煉相關的健康習慣后，我們著眼于增加患病的風險。例如，我們知道，如果你積極鍛煉你可能就會少抽煙。此外，我們還考慮了肥胖，積極鍛煉的人也傾向于體重更輕。”
Harold Kohl from the University of Texas School of Public Health also worked on the special report. He says physical inactivity should be recognized as a global epidemic.
得克薩斯大學公共衛生學院的Harold Kohl也參與了這一特別報告。他說，運動不足應被視為全球流行病。
HAROLD KOHL: "We have to realize that high income countries are the most inactive around the world, but low to middle income countries are not going to be far behind as things change, as their economies improve and their people rely more on the improvements that basically engineer physical activity out of our daily lives."
HAROLD KOHL：“我們必須認識到，高收入國家是全球最不積極運動的地方。但隨著世事變遷，隨著經濟的提升和人民更加依賴于這些進步，這些會把體育鍛煉從人們的日常生活中趕出去，中低收入國家在這一問題上也不會遠遠落后于高收入國家。”
Harold Kohl points to campaigns that continue to reduce smoking and alcohol use. He says the time has come to target physical inactivity as a major threat to public health.
Harold Kohl指出持續減少吸煙和酗酒的宣傳活動。他說，是時候將運動不足視為威脅公眾健康的一個對象了。
HAROLD KOHL: "It is not just telling someone to go out and be physically active, but how we rely on the transportation sector or how our cities or neighborhoods are designed, how crime can be minimized to help people become more physically active in their neighborhoods, simply walking to the store or walking down and being outside with friends and family and so forth. These broader environmental issues are becoming much clearer in terms of their effects."
HAROLD KOHL：“它不僅僅是要告訴別人走出去進行鍛煉身體，還包括我們如何依賴交通部門，或我們的城市或社區如何設計，如何能使犯罪最小化以幫助人們在社區中更加活躍，只需要步行到商店，或與家人朋友在外面走走等。這些更廣泛的環境問題在其影響方面正日益清晰。”
I. Min Lee agrees -- and she challenges people to do one hundred fifty minutes a week of moderately intense exercise.
I. Min Lee同意這些觀點，同時她要求人們一星期做150分鐘中等強度運動。
I. MIN LEE: "Anything you can do is great! Even if you don't reach that 150 minutes a week, a little is better than none and more is better than a little."
I. MIN LEE：“你做任何運動都行！即使你沒有達到每周150分鐘，少做比不做好，做多比做少好。”
She plans to return every four years -- just like the Olympics -- to give a progress report to tell us how the world is doing.
她計劃像奧運會一樣每4年發布一份進度報告，告訴我們世界各地的人們做得怎樣。
