Now, that seems like kind of a funny question because food is whatever a society eats.

这个问题看似滑稽,食物就是人吃的东西

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Well, we'll sort through all these and discuss what a society might do to help change food preferences and food intake patterns in the society.

我们会通览所有问题然后讨论社会该做些,什么来帮助我们改变饮食偏好和饮食习惯

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So basically, the whole society was spending all of the time raising enough food just to support life and there was only 5% left over and that ended up being used in ways like this.

基本上,整个社会全部时间都被用于积累足量食物,这仅是为了维持生计,只剩下5%的时间,被用来建造金字塔,为法老服务

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Although most of you would probably say "well it's--all these things are involved, at least to some extent,"society defaults to certain assumptions about what's driving food intake and there are some people that default to an environmental explanation of this.

尽管你们大部分人可能会说,"和以上这些因素都有关系,至少有些关系",社会共识,某些原因造成了我们摄取过多垃圾食品,一些人把这归咎于环境原因

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