来源：《泰晤士报》
原文见报日期：2023年5月23日
Voters overwhelmingly support the imposition of tougher curbs on junk food to tackle obesity, research shows. Eighty per cent of adults back the idea of new laws to prevent the advertising of unhealthy food to children on television and online, according to a YouGov poll for the Obesity Health Alliance.
研究显示，绝大多数选民支持对垃圾食品实施更严格的限制，以解决肥胖问题。YouGov为肥胖健康联盟进行的一项民意调查显示，80%的成年人支持制定新法律，以防止在电视和网络上向儿童宣传不健康食品。
In the survey of 2,037 adults, 58 per cent said councils should use planning laws to prevent fast-food shops opening in their area. There was 68 per cent support for expanding the sugar tax on soft drinks to cover crisps, biscuits and milkshakes and most respondents said funds raised through these levies should go towards schemes that directly help children’s health, such as sports clubs.
在对2037名成年人的调查中，58%的人表示，地方政府应该利用城市规划法律来阻止快餐店在当地开业。68%的人支持将糖税从软饮料扩大到薯片、饼干和奶昔，大多数受访者表示，通过这些税收筹集的资金应用于直接帮助儿童健康的计划，如体育俱乐部。
The sugar tax, introduced in 2018, adds 18p per litre to the price of soft drinks with more than 5g of sugar per 100ml. It is considered to have been a successful policy.
2018年开始征收糖税，每100毫升含糖量超过5克的软饮料的税率每升增加18便士。人们认为这是一项成功的政策。
The Obesity Health Alliance, a coalition of health charities and campaign groups, said “bold action” was essential to “build on the success” of the sugar levy and reduce pressure on the NHS.
由健康慈善机构和运动团体组成的“肥胖健康联盟”表示，“大胆行动”对于“在糖税成功的基础上再接再厉”和减轻NHS的压力至关重要。
Two thirds of adults in England are overweight or obese, which is driving record levels of long-term sickness in the UK, with 2.6 million people off work. The NHS spends twice as much on obese patients per year as those of a healthy weight because of obesity-related conditions such as type 2 diabetes.
英国三分之二的成年人超重或肥胖，这导致英国患慢性病人数创历史新高，有260万人无法工作。英国国家医疗服务体系每年花在肥胖患者身上的钱是那些体重正常的人的两倍，因为他们更易患与肥胖有关的疾病，比如2型糖尿病。
Conservative governments have resisted interventionist policies, amid unease about imposing taxes on food and fears of “nanny statism”. Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, has promised to ban advertising junk food to children on television and via social media. Campaigners have written to all the big political parties saying it is “crystal clear” that the public would support such measures.
出于对食品征税的不安和对“保姆式国家主义”的担忧，保守党政府一直抵制干预主义政策。工党领袖基尔?斯塔默爵士承诺，如果工党执政，将禁止在电视和社交媒体上向儿童宣传垃圾食品。活动人士已经写信给所有的大政党，说“非常清楚”公众会支持这些限制垃圾食品的措施。
Katharine Jenner, director of the Obesity Health Alliance, said the next prime minister must “address Britain’s obesity crisis and redesign a broken food system that puts profit before health”.
肥胖健康联盟负责人凯瑟琳•詹纳表示，下一任首相必须“解决英国的肥胖危机，改变当前这个将利润置于健康之上的支离破碎的食品体系”。
Ben Reynolds, of Sustain, a food and farming charity, said: “Our country is flooded with unhealthy food. If it was as simple as ‘eat less and move more’, we wouldn’t have a health crisis. The public are clear about their appetite for government intervention to put health first.”
食品和农业慈善机构Sustain的本·雷诺兹说：“我们的国家充斥着不健康的食品。如果就像“少吃多动”这么简单，我们就不会有健康危机了。公众很清楚，他们希望政府干预，把健康放在首位。”
Restrictions on junk food advertising, initially due to come in this year, have been pushed back to 2025 after a series of delays and a plan unveiled by Boris Johnson to ban buy-one-get-one-free deals has been scrapped.
对垃圾食品广告的限制原定于今年实施，但经过一系列推迟，已被推迟到2025年，鲍里斯·约翰逊公布的禁止买一送一交易的计划也被取消。