She says any discussion about improving the environment must include a discussion about changing the animal food production industry and changing people's diets.

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So the food environment can change and can change in productive ways and there are a lot of signs of this happening.

食品环境可以改变并可以很有创造性改变,有很多迹象都可以证明这一点

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For example, if it's more convenient should you change the environment to make the unhealthy food less convenient and make healthy foods more convenient?

举例来说,如果是因为方便,那你改变外部环境,会使得健康食品比垃圾食品更容易获得吗

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But as I said before, the food environment has changed very quickly and people have not.

但是就像之前说的,食品环境改变迅速,而人却没有

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And, probably most important of all is can the food environment change?

或许最重要的一点 食品环境能够改变吗

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but in the presence of the modern food environment that provides access to these things, and to foods like a pop tart with fifty-six different things in it, the body gets thrown off.

但在如今的饮食环境中,我们可以随时接触到像是果酱馅饼,这样的集五十六种成分于一身的食物,但却不利于身体健康

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And so one could say that there is a very unfortunate mismatch between our biology and our evolution and the modern food environment, because biology of course takes thousands and thousands, millions of years even to change, but the food environment has changed relatively recently.

可以说,在人类的生物进化和现在的,食品环境之间存在着非常不幸的脱节,生物学上的改变要花上,成千上万年的时间,但是食品环境却可以在短时间内迅速改变

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These foods are heavily marketed, they tend to be sold in schools, there tend to be mini markets right outside the schools so people can get them on the way to and from schools at many places, and this is the food environment.

这些食品非常热销,一般在学校附近有售,学校外面一般都有小型超市,这样人们就可以在上学放学路上买到它们,这就是所谓的食物环境

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