In the UK, where the second biggest junk food kingdom to the US, a third of adult are officially acknowledged as obesity and adult obesity is regarded as serious problem there. Education on food is popular in Japan these days but no one pay attention to it in this country. Bad eating habit for long years seems to be difficult to change. But healthy food operations started by major supermarkets such as Sainsbury's and Tesco since last year have succeeded and turnover of junk foods have been reducing substantially.
The strategy is an idea to put numbers of fat, salt and sugar included per 100g in foods in a pie chart of combination of red, yellow and green of traffic light on a corner of pack. It is designed to make red, which means a danger signal for your health, be more remarkable when the number to foods is big. Sainsbury's announced that after introducing this “traffic light system”, sales of salty Chicken Madras Curry has dropped by 40%, on the other hand, green light carrot soup and Florentine pasta has surged by 42%. I hope there will not be optimism like “if everyone crosses against the red light, there’s nothing to be afraid of”. (本多)
難しかった点は、 3行目:「馬耳東風」 6行目:「という」 9行目:「数値が高いほど」 「the 比較級, the 比較級」の形を使うのか? 最終行:「ならなきゃいいけど」 こんなところです。
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Writers' Workshop 10月号, 2006"
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