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Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰

Laziness is blamed for obesity in the UK
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Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook from scratch? Have you been doing internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What can't you be bothered to do?

A study into how lazy British people are has found more than half of adults are so idle they'd catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs.

Just over 2000 people were quizzed by independent researchers at Nuffield Health, Britain's largest health charity. The results were startling.

About one in six people surveyed said if their remote control was broken, they would continue watching the same channel rather than get up.

More than one third of those questioned said they would not run to catch a bus. Worryingly, of the 654 respondents with children, 64% said they were often too tired to play with them.

This led the report to conclude that it's no wonder that one in six children in the UK are classified as obese before they start school.

Dr Sarah Dauncey, medical director of Nuffield Health, said: "People need to get fitter, not just for their own sake, but for the sake of their families, friends and evidently their pets too.

"If we don't start to take control of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the most rudimentary of tasks."

And Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, was shamed as the most indolent city in the UK, with 75% surveyed admitting they do not get enough exercise, followed closely by Birmingham and Southampton, both with 67%.

The results pose serious challenges for the National Health Service, where obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on a steady increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of pounds every year.

 

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Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰ready meal
快餐,即食餐

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰from scratch
從頭開(kāi)始

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰can't ... be bothered
懶得搭理

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰study
調(diào)查

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰idle
靜止不動(dòng) 

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰(flights of)stairs
(幾層)樓梯

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰quizzed
被詢問(wèn)

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰startling
令人吃驚的

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰surveyed
被調(diào)查

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰remote control
遙控器

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰respondents
回答者
 

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰it's no wonder that
難怪 

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰classified
被歸類(lèi)為

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰obese
肥胖

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰for the sake
為了…著想

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰generation
一代人

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰rudimentary
最基本的

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰shamed
被批評(píng)

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰indolent
懶洋洋的

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰pose... challenges
對(duì)...提出挑戰(zhàn)

Health: Laziness 健康:懶惰
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