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WESTERN FOOD vs HUMAN HEALTH AUDIO

The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for humanhealth and for the environment. Those findings come from a new report inthe journal Nature.

spread:extensin, propagacin; eating habits: costumbres o hbitosalimentarios;bad:perjudicial; environment:medio ambiente; findings: estudios,hallazgos; come from:provienen de; report:informe;

There are ways to solve this diethealthenvironment problem.!ut they willre"uire a change in eating habits. And what we eat can bea product ofculture# personal taste# price and ease.ways to solve:alternativas para solucionar; diet-health-environmentproblem:problema relacionado con el rgimen alimentario, la salud y el medioambiente; will require: necesitarn; what we eat:lo que comemos; product ofculture:resultado de la cultura; personal taste: gustopersonal; price:precio; ease:comodidad;

David Tilman is a professor of ecology at the University of $innesota. Inthestudy# he e%amined information from&'' countries to identify what peopleate and how diet affected health.examined:analiz; to identify: a fin de identificar; what people ate:lo que comala gente; how diet affected health:cmo el rgimen alimentario afectaba la salud;

$r. Tilman noted a movement beginning in the &()'s. *e found thatasnations industriali+ed# population increased and earnings rose. $ore peoplebegan to adopt what has been called the Western diet.noted:detect, percibi; found: descubri; as nations industrialized:a medidaque los pases se industrializaban ! pasaban de una economa basada en laagricultura a otra basada en la industria"; population increased:la poblacinaumentaba;earnings rose: los ingresos suban; began to adopt:comenzaron aadoptar; the Western diet:el rgimen alimentario de occidente ! consumoelevado de carnes rojas, postres excesivamente dulces, alimentos saturados degrasas y bebidas con elevado contenido de az#car";

The Western diet is high in refined# or processed# sugar# fat# oil and meat.!y eating these foods# people began to get fatter , and sic-er.refined:refinado$a; fat: grasa; oil:aceite; by eating:al ingerir; thesefoods: estos alimentos; to get fatter:a ponerse ms obesos; sicker:msenfermos;

The excess, let us say, in the 15 richest nations of the world, right now ison the order of about 400 or 500 extra calories a day thatare eaten beyondwhat people need, and that leads people to gain weight.let us say:pongamos como ejemplo; richest: ms ricas; right now:en estemomento; in the order of about:aproximadamente en el orden de; extra caloriesa day: caloras diarias de ms; that are eaten:que son ingeridas; beyondwhat:ms all de lo que la"; that leads people: eso lleva a la gente; to gainweight:a subir de peso;

David Tillman says overweight people are at greater ris- for noninfectiousdiseases li-e diabetes# heart disease and some cancers.

overweight people:las personas con sobrepeso; at greater risk for: corren serioriesgo de adquirir; non-infectious diseases like:enfermedades no infecciosas

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como;diabetes:diabetes; heart disease: cardiopata enfermedad cardaca";

iabetes is shooting to !ery high rates inthe "nited #tates and across$urope. %eart disease isa &a'or cause of &ortality in

the (esterncountries. "nfortunately when people beco&e industriali)ed, ifthey adoptthis (estern diet, they are going to ha!e these sa&e health i&pacts, andinso&e cases if you are *sian, you ha!e the& &ore se!erely than e!enhappens in the (est.is shooting:se est disparando; to very high rates: a niveles muyelevados; across:en toda; major cause:causaprincipal; unfortunately: lamentablemente; health impacts:impactos en lasalud; more severely:ms gravemente;

hina# he says# isan e%ample where the number of diabetes cases hasjumped.the number of:la cantidad de; has jumped:se han incrementado;

... fro& less than one percent to 10 percent ofthe population ha!ingdiabetes as they began to industriali)e o!er a +0year period. *nd that has not le!eled off yet. That is still going up. *nd thatis happening all acrossthe world, in -exico,in Nigeria and so on, 'ust nation after nation.from less than one percent to 1 percent:de menos del %& al %'&; as theybegan to: a partir del momento en que empezaron a; over a !-year period:porun lapso de (' a)os; has not leveled off yet:todava no se ha equilibrado; that isstill going up: a#n sigue subiendo; all across the world:en todo el mundo; and

so on:etctera;just nation after nation: pas tras pas;

And# a diet bad for human beings# it seems# is also bad for the environment.Asthe world/s population grows# e%perts say more forests and tropicalareas will become farmland for crops or grasslands for gra+ing cattle.These areas will be needed to meet the increasing demand for food.human beings:los seres humanos; as """ grows: a medida que ***crece; farmland:tierras rurales; for crops:para cultivo; grasslands: zonas depastoreo; for grazing cattle:para el ganado de pasto; to meet:para satisfacer;

(e are liely to ha!e &ore greenhouse gas released inthe future fro&agriculture because ofthis dietary shift than all the greenhouse gas thatright now co&es outof all the cars, and all ofthe airplanes, boats andships, all for&s of transportation. #o our change indiet is liely to be worseforthe world for cli&ate war&ing than all the transportation sources we useright now.we are likely to have:es muy posible que tengamos; greenhouse gasreleased:gas invernadero en el ambiente el que causa el calentamientoglobal"; because of:a causa de; dietary shift:cambio de rgimenalimenticio; comes out of: proviene de;is likely to be worse:es muy posible que

sea peor a#n; for climate warming:para el calentamientoglobal; sources: fuentes, recursos; we use right now:que utilizamos en la

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actualidad;

$r. Tilman calls the lin- between diet# the environment and human health#0a trilemma.1 This is a play on the word 0dilemma1 ,a problem offering adifficult choice.

*e says one possible solution is leaving the Western dietbehind.a trilemma:una difcil eleccin entre tres alternativasdesfavorables; dilemma:encrucijada; choice:opcin; leaving the Western dietbehind:olvidarse de abandonar" el rgimen dietario occidental*