So it's very easy for people to exceed dietary recommendations given what the modern food supply is.

在现代食物供给下,人们很容易就超过了建议饮食标准

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What better mimics modern human conditions than fat, than sugar, and variety?

除了讨论脂肪,糖,和混合食物,怎样才能更好地模拟现代人的饮食情况呢

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This is less of a problem in modern life then it used to be, but because things are supplemented and fortified-- overly so in some cases-- but still the deficiencies are less common then they used to be.

相比过去,这在现代社会中已不太多见,因为如今很多食物有人工添加的微量元素,有些甚至是过度添加了,但相比过去,缺乏微量元素已不那么常见了

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Now we'll go back further than 10,000 years to talk about the history of food, but in those--but at 10,000 years ago several very important changes happened that have shaped to a great extent what our modern relationship with food is.

让我们回到一万多年前,来讨论饮食史,但是,一万年前,发生了一些很重要的变化,这些变化很大程度上塑造了,现代人类与食物的关系

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