肥胖的议员们
肥胖的议员们
Most Male MPs* Feel Porky
英国的一次调查显示，男性政治家们正在为保持体型而发愁。根据新近公布的一份针对下院议员的调查，接受调查的113名男性中有70%说自己因超重而烦恼，65%承认自己经常吃不该吃的东西。进行此次调查的是一个名为“男性健康论坛”的独立团体，该团体负责人彼得•贝克说：“尽管卫生部方面认为男性政治家们身体健康，但他们中的大部分跟其他大多数人没什么不同：他们体重超标，嗜吃不健康食品，而且缺乏锻炼。”90%的男性议员承认，他们觉得自己没有进行足够的锻炼来抵御体重的增长。贝克说，尽管要求男性保持瘦削体型的呼声越来越高，研究却显示他们越来越胖。他在一份声明中补充道：“仅在1993至2001年间，被临床鉴定为超重或肥胖的男性比例就从57%上升到了69%。”
Remarks：公元733年，还没有开始发昏的唐玄宗因国事而憔悴不堪，他自我解嘲说：“吾貌虽瘦，天下必肥。”——不知议员先生们对此有何感想？
Male politicians are having a difficult time keeping fit, according to a British poll. In a survey of MPs released recently, 70 percent of the 113 men who responded said being overweight worried them and 65 percent admitted they often ate food they thought they should not have. "Despite all the good health messages from the Department of Health, the majority of male politicians are just like most other blokes: they’re overweight, they’re tempted by unhealthy foods and they don’t exercise enough," said Peter Baker, the director of the Men’s Health Forum (MHF), an independent group which conducted the poll. 90 percent of male MPs admitted they thought they did not do enough physical activity to keep off the extra weight. Baker said although there is now increasing pressure on men to look lean, research has shown that they are getting fatter. "The proportion of men clinically overweight or obese has increased from 57 percent to 69 percent between 1993 and 2001 alone," he added in a statement.
* MP：Member of Parliament的略写，在英国指下院议员。
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