人们越来越了解糖对身体的伤害，所以现在很多食物中都用人造甜味剂代替了糖。
但是最近科学家发现：每天喝两杯以上含糖饮料的人早死的风险比那些很少喝含糖饮料的人高17%。
但更加惊恐的是，饮用含人造甜味剂饮料的人早死的风险更高。
人造甜味剂可能使心脏病风险增加40%。
人造甜味剂骗了我们！
我们以为它们比糖更有利于健康，但它们可能和糖一样，甚至更糟。
反对人造甜味剂的呼声日益增高。
直到现在我们才知道人造甜味剂会对人体肠道中的100万亿种细菌造成极大伤害，还会长出与肥胖症和糖尿病相关的细菌，而这些细菌对我们的健康至关重要。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 人们 | rén men | people |
| 越来越 | yuè lái yuè | more and more |
| 了解 | liǎo jiě | to understand / to realize / to find out |
| 糖 | táng | sugar |
| 对 | duì | towards; at; for / concerning; regarding |
| 身体 | shēn tǐ | one's health |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 伤害 | shāng hài | to injure; to harm |
| 所以 | suǒ yǐ | therefore / as a result / so |
| 现在 | xiàn zài | now; at present; currently |
| 很多 | hěn duō | many; a lot of |
| 食物 | shí wù | food |
| 中 | zhōng | within; among; in |
| 都 | dōu | all; both; entirely |
| 用 | yòng | to use; to make use of; to employ / (coverb) with; using |
| 人造 | rén zào | man-made / artificial / synthetic |
| 甜味剂 | tián wèi jì | sweetener (food additive) |
| 代替 | dài tì | to replace; to take the place of |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 但是 | dàn shì | but; however |
| 最近 | zuì jìn | recently |
| 科学家 | kē xué jiā | scientist |
| 发现 | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of / to discover; to find; to detect |
| 每 | měi | each / every |
| 天 | tiān | day |
| 喝 | hē | to drink |
| 两 | liǎng | two / both / some / a few |
| 杯 | bēi | classifier for certain containers of liquids |
| 以上 | yǐ shàng | that level or higher; that amount or more |
| 含 | hán | to keep in the mouth / to contain |
| 饮料 | yǐn liào | drink / beverage |
| 人 | rén | person; people |
| 早 | zǎo | prematurely |
| 死 | sǐ | to die |
| 风险 | fēng xiǎn | risk; hazard |
| 比 | bǐ | (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / (in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese) |
| 那些 | nà xiē | those |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 少 | shǎo | seldom |
| 高 | gāo | high / tall / above average / loud |
| 但 | dàn | but; yet; however; still |
| 更加 | gèng jiā | more (than sth else) / even more |
| 惊恐 | jīng kǒng | to be alarmed / to be frightened |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 饮用 | yǐn yòng | drink / drinking or drinkable (water) |
| 更 | gèng | more / even more / further / still / still more |
| 可能 | kě néng | might (happen) / maybe / perhaps |
| 使 | shǐ | to make / to cause / to enable |
| 心脏 | xīn zàng | heart |
| 病 | bìng | illness / disease / defect |
| 增加 | zēng jiā | to raise; to increase |
| 骗 | piàn | to cheat / to swindle / to deceive / to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over |
| 我们 | wǒ men | we; us; ourselves; our |
| 以为 | yǐ wéi | to think; to believe |
| 它们 | tā men | they; them |
| 有利于 | yǒu lì yú | to be advantageous to; to be beneficial for |
| 健康 | jiàn kāng | health |
| 和 | hé | and; together with |
| 一样 | yī yàng | same / like / equal to / the same as |
| 甚至 | shèn zhì | even; so much so that |
| 糟 | zāo | rotten / messy / ruined |
| 反对 | fǎn duì | to oppose; to be against; to object to |
| 呼声 | hū shēng | a shout / fig. opinion or demand, esp. expressed by a group |
| 日益 | rì yì | day by day / more and more / increasingly / more and more with each passing day |
| 增高 | zēng gāo | to heighten / to raise / to increase / to rise |
| 直到 | zhí dào | until |
| 才 | cái | then and only then |
| 知道 | zhī dào | to know; to become aware of |
| 会 | huì | to be likely to; to be sure to |
| 人体 | rén tǐ | human body |
| 肠道 | cháng dào | intestines / gut |
| 万亿 | wàn yì | trillion |
| 种 | zhǒng | classifier for types, kinds, sorts |
| 细菌 | xì jūn | bacterium / germ |
| 造成 | zào chéng | to bring about; to create; to cause |
| 极 | jí | extremely |
| 大 | dà | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest |
| 还 | hái | in addition, also, else, even |
| 长 | zhǎng | to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance |
| 出 | chū | (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) |
| 与 | yǔ | (formal) with; from (marking the other participant in an interaction, comparison, or contrast) |
| 肥胖症 | féi pàng zhèng | obesity |
| 糖尿病 | táng niào bìng | diabetes; diabetes mellitus |
| 相关 | xiāng guān | related / relevant / pertinent |
| 而 | ér | and / as well as |
| 这些 | zhè xiē | these |
| 至关 | zhì guān | extremely important; vital |
| 重要 | zhòng yào | important; significant; major |