1/5的孩子将过于肥胖
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One in five children is predicted to be obese by the end of the decade.
在最近的10年里，预计1/5的孩子将过于肥胖。
But efforts to turn that tide are scattershot and underfunded, and the government killed one of the few programs proven to work, specialists said Wednesday.
但是，扭转这一趋势的措施却依然漫不经心，同时还受到资金不足的困扰；专家周三称，政府甚至还扼杀了一个项目，这个项目是少数几个被证明能够起到作用的项目之一。
Programs that target youngsters' growing waistlines are sprouting around the country, an encouraging sign that the threat to children's health is being taken seriously, said the report by the Institute of Medicine.
医药学会的报告中指出，各地都涌现出了许多旨在解决青少年不断增长的腰围的项目，这是一个令人鼓舞的信号，证明孩子们的健康威胁正在得到人们的重视。
But no one knows which programs really help kids slim down, said the institute said in calling for research to identify best methods.
但是没有人知道到底哪些项目可以真正帮助孩子减肥，该学会表示。学会希望通过研究找到减肥的最佳办法。
More troubling, the country lacks the national leadership needed to speed change, lamented an expert panel convened by the scientific group.
更麻烦的是，国家缺乏一个领导机构，这使科研组织召集的专家组深感沮丧。
“Is this as important as stockpiling antibiotics or buying vaccines？I think it is,” said Dr. Jeffrey Koplan of Emory University, who led the IOM's panel. “This is a major health problem. It's of a different nature than acute infectious threats, but it needs to be taken just as seriously.”
“这不比储存抗生素或购买疫苗重要吗？我觉得应该同样重要”，来自艾莫雷大学的IOM专家组杰弗瑞·柯普兰说。“这是一种重要的健康问题。在本质上，它与急性传染病的威胁不同，但是也需要得到足够的重视。”
To reinforce that point, Wednesday's report spotlighted the government's VERB campaign, a program once touted as spurring a 30 percent increase in exercise among the preteens it reached. It ended this year with Bush administration budget cuts.
为了强调这一观点，周三的报告重点讲到了政府的VERB计划，据说这一计划在其涵盖区域内增加了少年儿童30%的身体锻炼量，但这一计划在布什政府缩减预算时给终止了。
VERB encouraged 9- to 13-year-olds to take part in physical activities, like bike riding or skateboarding. Slick ads, at a cost of $59 million last year, portrayed exercise as cool at an age when outdoor play typically winds down and adolescent slothfulness sets in.
VERB鼓励9-13岁的孩子参加像骑自行车、溜冰等体育活动。去年，有5千9百万美元投入到的精美的广告宣传中。广告引导那些处于因户外活动减少而开始变得慵懒的年龄的青少年们认为锻炼身体也很时尚。
The demise of the program “calls into question the commitment to obesity prevention within government,” the panel concluded.
专家组总结说，这一计划的终止“让人们开始拷问政府在防治肥胖症中所承担的义务”。
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