英國強制要求減少食物卡路里，只因.....

HEALTH chiefs plan to slash the calories in family favourites like pizza, burgers, crisps and ready meals by a fifth to battle Britain's bulging waistlines.
英國公共衛生部門爲減緩國民肥胖問題計劃大力削減食物中的卡路里，其中包括披薩、漢堡、薯片和方便食品等頗受英國家庭喜愛的食物，減少量預計爲五分之一。

Public Health England says food firms must either use less fattening ingredients or cut product sizes to help beat obesity.
公共衛生部門表示，食品公司的配料脂肪含量必須降低，不然就縮小食品，以此抵抗肥胖病。

Supermarkets, manufacturers and high street chains such as McDonald’s will be expected to hit the 20 per cent target in the next five years.
五年內，超市、批發市場、還有麥當勞這樣的街頭連鎖都要達到目標，將食物中的脂肪降低20%。

But critics yesterday said the PHE drive is nanny state madness — and predicted shoppers will be ripped off as manufacturers cut sizes without reducing prices.
但是昨天有評論人士稱公共衛生部門的行爲過多幹預了國民生活，一旦賣家縮小食物，價格卻無變動時，消費者數量就會銳減。

Christopher Snowdon, of the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: “The nanny state zealots at PHE have lost the plot.
經濟事務研究所的克里斯托弗·斯諾登說：“公共衛生部門真把自己當國民奶媽了，真是瘋了。”

“The only way companies can meet these targets is by shrinking products. We’ve seen this happen with chocolate bars and other sugary treats.
“各公司要想達標，只能縮小食物。巧克力棒和個別糖果已經縮小了。”

“Now the Great British Rip Off is being extended to all food products.”PHE says children eat up to 500 too many calories a day — equivalent to an extra meal.
“這種大敲竹槓的行爲已經蔓延到所有食物了。”公共衛生部門說，兒童每天額外攝入的卡路里達500，相當於多吃了一頓飯。

And two in three adults and one in three children are too fat, costing the NHS at least £6billion annually.
三分之二的成人過於肥胖，三分之一的兒童也有肥胖症狀，每年花費英國國家醫療服務體系至少600萬英鎊。

PHE says if the 20 per cent reduction is met by 2024, 35,000 lives could be saved over the next 25 years.
公共衛生部門說，到2024年，如果20%的目標能夠達成，未來25年間會有35000人獲救。

It is targeting 13 popular foods that are not already in the Government’s sugar reduction programme.
該部門已經瞄準了13種廣受歡迎的食物，這13中食物尚未列入政府減糖項目。

Officials have hinted food firms who do not slim down their products could be hit by taxes or new regulations.
官方說法稱，不減少脂肪含量的食品公司可能會面臨繳稅和新政策的處罰。

PHE's chief nutritionist Dr Alison Tedstone said: “We have moved on from obesity affecting a small section of society, it is the norm now.”
公共衛生部門首席營養師艾莉森·泰德斯通說：“肥胖症正危害着社會的一個小羣體，我們已經開始行動了，這種行動現在就是常態。”