纪录片《饮食变迁》 第1期:民以食为天（在线收听）

Humanity's most fundamental relationship is with what we eat.

民以食为天

But nowadays, in wealthy countries,

但当今社会 在发达国家

we're eating far too much of the wrong things.

我们摄入了远远过量的不健康食品

There are 96 million fat people just like us!

像我们一样的肥胖者有9600万之多

And we're paying the consequences of our expanding waistlines

随着我们腰围的增长

with an epidemic of diseases that kill -

我们随之遭受一系列致命的高发性疾病

heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

例如心脏病 糖尿病和癌症

There's a complete lack of knowledge about obesity.

对于肥胖症的知识十分匮乏

How did we end up in this situation and how do we fix it?

我们该如何结束这一局面 该如何弥补

The relationship between what we eat

我们摄入的食物

and how it affects our health

跟它们如何影响自身健康

is a story that television has been

是电视节目不断上演的故事

drawn to over and over again because it's never gone away.

因为它始终伴随着我们

Well, I'm greedy.

我很贪吃

This is the story of mankind's

这是关于人类

attempt to control nature through the wholesale industrialization

试图通过大规模食品产业化

of food production in our search for enough to eat.

满足自身所需 进而控制自然的故事

This is a process which we can do nothing but admire.

对这一进程 我们只有钦佩

It's also the story of the impact this massive shift in our diet

同时也讲述了饮食的巨大变化

has had on the health of each and every one of us.

对我们每个人健康的影响