健康飲食的同時要注意減少食物的浪費

Turns out your healthy eating habits might be impacting the environment in a negative way.

事實證明，你的健康的飲食習慣可能會對環境造成負面影響。

A new study revealed that Americans waste nearly a pound of food per person each day, and those with higher quality diets are the worst offenders.

一項新研究顯示，美國人每人每天浪費近一磅的食物，而那些追求高質量飲食的人則是罪魁禍首。

The research, released by the USDA, University of Vermont, and University of New Hampshire, found that between 2007 and 2014, U.S. consumers wasted nearly 150,000 tons of food per day, which equals roughly 30 percent of the average daily calories consumed by all Americans combined.

由美國農業部、佛蒙特大學和新罕布什爾大學聯合發佈的這項研究發現，在2007年到2014年間，美國消費者每天浪費近15萬噸的食物，這大概相當於所有美國人平均每天消耗的熱量總和的30%。

Researchers categorized waste in 22 different food groups and found that fruits, vegetables and mixed fruit and vegetable dishes were wasted most, equaling 39 percent of the total, followed by dairy at 17 percent and meat and mixed meat dishes at 14 percent.

研究人員對22個不同的食品垃圾羣進行了分類，發現水果、蔬菜和什錦果蔬被浪費的最多，佔總數的39%，其次是奶製品，佔17%，肉類和什錦肉食佔14%。

"Higher quality diets have greater amounts of fruits and vegetables, which are being wasted in greater quantities than other food," study co-author Meredith Niles, a University of Vermont assistant professor, said in a press release.

該研究的合著者、佛蒙特大學助理教授梅雷迪思·奈爾斯在一次新聞發佈會上稱：“高質量的飲食含有更多的水果和蔬菜，它們被浪費的量比其他食物都要多。”

"Eating healthy is important, and brings many benefits, but as we pursue these diets, we must think much more consciously about food waste."

“健康飲食是很重要，而且會帶來很多好處，但當我們追求這些飲食時，必須更有意識地考慮食物浪費的問題。”