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If I ask you what constitutes "bad" eating, the kind that leads to obesity and a variety of connected diseases, you're likely to answer, "Salt, fat and sugar." This trilogy of evil has been drilled into us for decades, yet that's not an adequate answer. 如果我问你，什么构成“不良”饮食，你可能会回答那些导致肥胖和各种相关疾病的东西，“盐、脂肪和糖。”这个邪恶三剑客已经困扰我们几十年了。但这个答案并不充分。 We don't know everything about the dietary links to chronic disease, but the best-qualified people argue that real food is more likely to promote health and less likely to cause disease than hyperprocessed food. And we can further refine that message: Minimally processed plants should dominate our diets. (This isn't just me saying this; the Institute of Medicine and the Department of Agriculture agree.) 我们对饮食和慢性病的关系还有很多不了解的地方，但是在这个问题上最有发言权的人说，相比经过高度加工的食品，真正的食物对健康更有利，不容易导致疾病。我们还可以进一步提炼这一要旨：我们的饮食主体，应该是经过极少加工的植物。（这话不只是我在说；美国国家医学院[Institute of Medicine]和农业部[Department of Agriculture]都是认同的。） And yet we're in the middle of a public health emergency that isn't being taken seriously enough. We should make it a national priority to create two new programs, a research program to determine precisely what causes diet-related chronic illnesses (on top of the list is "Just how bad is sugar?"), and a program that will get this single, simple message across: Eat Real Food. | 
