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Lets Go Veggie! 1 If there was a single act that would improve your health, cut your risk of food-borne illnesses, and help preserve the environment and the welfare of millions of animals, would you do it? 咱们吃素吧! ??????如果有一件事，既能增进健康、减少患上食物引起的疾病的危险，又有助于保护环境、保护千万动物安全生存，你做不做？2 The act Im referring to is the choice you make every time you sit down to a meal. ??????我说的这件事就是每次坐下来就餐时挑选菜肴。3 More than a million Canadians have already acted: They have chosen to not eat meat. And the pace of change has been dramatic. ??????一百多万加拿大人已经行动起来：他们决定不吃肉。变化速度之快令人惊叹。4 Vegetarian food sales are showing unparalleled growth. Especially popular are meat-free burgers and hot dogs, and the plant-based cuisines of India, China, Mexico, Italy and Japan. ??????素食品的销售额大大增加，前所未有。尤受欢迎的是无肉汉堡包和热狗，以及以蔬为主的印度、中国、墨西哥、意大利和日本的菜肴。5 Fuelling the shift toward vegetarianism have been the health recommendations of medical research. Study after study has uncovered the same basic truth: Plant foods lower your risk of chronic disease; animal foods increase it. ??????推动人们转向素食的是医学研究提出的关于如何增进健康的建议。一项又一项的研究都揭示了同样的基本事实：果蔬降低患慢性病的危险；肉类食品则增加这种危险。6 The American Dietetic Association says: Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for several chronic degenerative diseases. ??????美国饮食学协会指出，“科学资料表明，素食与降低多种慢性变性疾病的患病危险肯定有关系。”7 This past fall, after reviewing 4,500 studies on diet and cancer, the World Cancer Research Fund flatly stated: Weve been running the human biological engine on the wrong fuel. ??????去年秋天，在检验了4500个饮食与癌症的研究报告之后，世界癌症研究基金会直截了当地指出：“我们一向利用不合适的养料来维持人类生理引擎的运转。”8 This wrong fuel has helped boost the cost of degenerative disease in Canada to an estimated $400 billion a year, according to Bruce Holub, a professor of nutritional science at the University of Guelph. ??????据威尔夫大学营养科学教授布鲁斯·霍拉勃称，这一“不合适的养料”致使加拿大每年用于治疗变性疾病的费用高达4000亿（加）元。9 Animal foods have serious nutritional drawbacks: They are devoid of fiber, contain far too much saturated fat and cholesterol, and