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兹转引《人民日报》刊发的部分文字如下：

　　黄胄画得最多的是“毛驴”和“少女”。他企图用那些游手好闲、飞眼吊膀的丑恶形象，来代替我们社会主义勤劳勇敢、朴实健康的各族劳动人民和革命战士；用那些歌舞、绣花、梳洗、喂奶等个人身边琐事，来排斥我们热火朝天的斗争生活；用剥削阶级色情、颓废、甚至歇斯底里的精神状态，来对抗无产阶级崇高、豪迈、意气风发的革命感情。

David Shen wrote:

人在英国好处多，多吃一点 Dover sole!

David Shen wrote:

Well, I did not think you knew painting that much, but I have to be careful now even when talking about paintings! 😅

wherestip wrote:
David,
No trepidations warranted on my account since your initial hunch was correct. I just got lucky on my search; that's all.  

wherestip wrote:
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Is coconut oil healthy?
By Lisa Drayer, CNN
Updated 6:50 AM ET, Fri August 18, 2017

(CNN)According to a recent survey, 72% of Americans think coconut oil is a healthy food.
But despite popular health claims about coconut oil, a report from the American Heart Association recently advised against its use, stating that it increases LDL cholesterol (a cause of cardiovascular disease) and has no known offsetting effects.
"There are many claims being made about coconut oil being wonderful for lots of different things, but we really don't have any evidence of long-term health benefits," said Dr. Walter C. Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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What's in coconut oil?

Coconut oil is extracted from the meat of the fruit. It contains mostly saturated fat, which is also found in large quantities in butter and red meat. Like other saturated fats, coconut oil increases LDL cholesterol, the "bad" cholesterol associated with increased risk of heart disease. In fact, coconut oil has more saturated fat and raises LDL more than butter, according to Willett.
But coconut oil does a particularly nice job of raising HDL, the "good" cholesterol, especially when replacing carbohydrates in the diet. This may be due to its high content of a fatty acid known as lauric acid.
"Coconut oil is half lauric acid, which is a little bit unique," Klatt said, as the acid seems to raise HDL more than other saturated fats and is rarely found in such high amounts in foods.
Still, though the increase in HDL seen with consumption of coconut oil may offset some of the disease risk, it's still not as good as consuming unsaturated oils, which not only raise HDL but lower LDL, according to Willett.
Complicating matters is the fact that we still don't know for sure what exactly a high HDL translates to in terms of health risk. "There's been debate about the role of HDL," Willett cautioned. "Partly because there are many forms of HDL which have different health consequences ... which has made the water murky."
For example, there are different forms of HDL that do different things. One role is to help take LDL cholesterol out of the bloodstream. "But some forms of HDL don't do that," Willett said, "so we don't know for sure that higher HDL is better."
And while it's true that an elevated LDL level is only a risk factor for heart disease and doesn't always translate to heart attacks, it's still cause for concern. "High LDL is a risk factor, but it strongly predicts negative health events," Willett said.
There is extremely preliminary evidence that the increase in LDL may not be as pronounced if one consumes extra virgin coconut oil instead of refined coconut oil, according to Klatt. For example, polyphenols present in unrefined oils may help to blunt the effects on LDL. But "the effects of extra virgin compared to refined coconut oil and other common oils require further study," he cautioned.

wherestip wrote:
(CNN) According to a recent survey, 72% of Americans think coconut oil is a healthy food.
But despite popular health claims about coconut oil, a report from the American Heart Association recently advised against its use, stating that it increases LDL cholesterol (a cause of cardiovascular disease) and has no known offsetting effects.
...
...But "the effects of extra virgin compared to refined coconut oil and other common oils require further study," he cautioned.

David Shen wrote:

Most Chinese remain slim.

Fat China: how are policymakers tackling rising obesity?
Paul French in Shanghai


When China’s healthcare researchers first uncovered a significant expansion in the nation’s waistline they were looking to investigate something else entirely. In 1982 China’s ministry of health had decided to undertake a massive survey of the country’s diet looking to pinpoint sites of malnutrition and understand where best to target basic food resources. But in the course of their research they discovered that the number of overweight people in China accounted for approximately 7% of the population (by way of contrast, in 1980 it was claimed that 26% of American adults were obese).

Just over a decade later, a 1992 survey suggested that 15% of Chinese people were overweight and approximately 30 million were clinically obese. In other words, the number of overweight Chinese had doubled in a decade. Excessive weight and obesity were now items to be added to China’s ever lengthening healthcare agenda. The 90s saw the government launch the first campaigns around smoking, excessive alcohol intake and tentatively consider the – still politically sensitive – adverse effects of pollution on the nation’s health.

As China has become richer, so there have been what are known as “wealth deficits” – a rising awareness of depression as well as Alzheimers and other conditions associated with improved longevity. Obesity has fallen into this group as decades of food scarcity have receded into an era of availability. TV programmes and radio shows discuss the adverse effects of obesity on everything from marriage prospects to students’ exam performance to getting a job. “Fat camps” for kids, bogus slimming pills, the massive uptake of liposuction, the explosion of gyms and all manner of quack diets are all the subject of debate and tabloid speculation. Weight and body image are not seen as sensitive subjects by the media censors and so a repressed tabloid media has taken to discussing obesity with a vengeance.

In China the cumulative effects of change in the national diet, rather than ‘a single identifiable evil’ has triggered obesity. Photograph: Nikhil Patel/Guardian
In the west there has been a tendency to equate the “obesity epidemic” with a single identifiable evil in the diet – a prime suspect if you like – trans-fats, junk food and fizzy drinks. But, in China, it is the cumulative change across the national diet that has made the difference.

The fact is that, particularly for China’s urban middle class, diet has changed radically and seemingly definitely in terms of both volume and variety. Access to food has greatly improved – supermarkets, hypermarkets, convenience stores. At the same time the range of food products has grown, though mostly this has been pre-packaged and processed foods high in fat salt and sugar (HFSS). For instance, the total volume sales of the processed foods and beverages with high quantities of HFSS food products have grown at more than twice the rate of fresh fruit and vegetables sales over the last 15 years. The diet has changed, and urban malnutrition is now virtually extinct, but not necessarily for the better.

As new data revealed China’s growing waistline so the policy of targeting the poor and underfed also became a quest to understand why some people were putting their health at risk by overeating. “From famine to gluttony in a generation,” is how one dietician in Guangzhou phrased to me. Another described it as a “wealth benefit” in the new China and that, just as more people owning cars was leading to sky-rocketing accident rates, so the greater availability of, access to, and affordability of food was seeing some Chinese overindulge and gain weight to degrees that were injurious to their health. By 2012 China’s Ministry of Health estimated that as many as 300 million Chinese people are obese in a population of 1.2 billion. This total makes China the second most obese nation after the USA in numbers of overweight citizens.

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wherestip wrote:
Fat China: how are policymakers tackling rising obesity?
Paul French in Shanghai

David Shen wrote:


In all of the above, only three are worthy of translation for me.

1_“wealth deficits” 富贵病
2_“Fat camps” for kids 儿童减肥中心
3_“From famine to gluttony in a generation,” “上一代人么饿死，下一代人么撑死。”

What do you think Steve? Better versions please, folks!

wherestip wrote:



David,

That's good. I like it.

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p.s., I can't think of what exactly the original Chinese term of "wealth deficits" might be, as the latter seems to be an English translation for a group of health conditions that people are more liable to acquire as their economic status improved.

Like you said, it could be 富贵病. But then the use of the word "deficit" seems to be a bit out of place.