別狼吞虎咽！

I have an idea， which might help tackle the problem of childhood 1）obesity. I believe it’s quite 2）na？ve to think that we can change what families eat， so we need to 3）target how they eat. And to make my point I’ll start with a very 4）controversial statement. Eating a hamburger and chips slowly and chewing each mouthful fully before swallowing might be better for children than 5）guzzling down an apple. My thinking 6）stems from watching adults eating in restaurants. The 7）overweight ones never put their 8）cutlery down between bites， and barely seem to chew before swallowing. But they’re adults with a long history of eating too fast. So how do we target children？ I think the government’s plans to 9）surmount childhood obesity are far too late in 10）secondary school children. We need to begin soon after babies start on solids. So I’d target 11）pregnant mums and then the nursery school teachers that have their children later. I’d train the mums to feed their babies very slowly and to give the baby always time to chew， and， in 12）nursery schools， I’d train the teachers to have young children put down their cutlery after each mouthful and chew 20 times before swallowing.

我有一個想法，也許能夠有助于解決兒童肥胖的問題。如果我們認為可以改變家庭的飲食習慣，就太天真了，所以我們需要把目標放在人們如何進食上。為了說明我的觀點，我要以一個飽受爭議的話題作為開頭。對于孩子們來說，緩慢地吃漢堡和薯條，每一口在吞下去前都充分咀嚼比狼吞虎咽地吃下一個蘋果要好得多。我的想法來自在餐館觀察成年人吃飯。那些超重的人在用餐期間從不放下餐具，而且也很少會咀嚼一番后才吞下去。但是他們快速進食已經有很長一段歷史了。那么我們如何把目標鎖定在孩子們上？我認為政府想要從中學生開始杜絕肥胖癥為時已晚，我們需要在寶寶們吃固體食物的時候就開始阻止這種情況。因此，我把目標定在懷孕的媽媽們以及日后照顧她們孩子的幼兒園老師上。我會訓練媽媽們緩慢地喂食自己的寶寶，讓寶寶能夠有時間去咀嚼。在幼兒園，我會訓練老師們讓孩子們每吃一口就放下餐具，把食物吞下去前咀嚼20次。