有機食品能減肥?專家稱只能增肥

It is the preferred fare of millions of health-conscious Britons. But eating organic food could make you fat, experts have warned. A study has shown that people tend to assume that organic foods - particularly snacks - contain fewer calories that their conventionally-produced counterparts, so buy and eat more. For those for whom buying organic is a treat, this is unlikely to have any major consequences. But people who decide to ‘go organic’, could soon find themselves piling on the pounds. Healthy choice? It is the preferred fare of millions of health-conscious Britons. But eating organic food could make you fat, experts have warned as people assume it contains fewer calories than non-organic counterparts

目前，在各大超市中，但凡是貼上“有機”標籤的食品幾乎都是貴得令人咂舌的，被冠以“防癌、美顏、健體、減肥”的有機食品果真就像它的價格一樣，讓購買者覺得“物有所值”嗎？在英國，上百萬的英國民衆都堅信選擇有機食品可以帶給他們健康的身體，但是專家又跳出來“指手畫腳”一番，警告倘若是希望通過食用有機零食的人趕緊住手吧！據一份最新研究顯示，堅信“貴的，就是好的”的人們要注意了，有機食品會促人發胖！專家警告稱，有機食品，特別是零食類的有機食品（巧克力、餅乾等）相比同類有機食品含有更多的卡路里，可以讓人迅速增肥。

The warning comes from American researchers who investigated whether the sight of an organic label was enough to imbue a food with a range of desirable st 150 shoppers were asked to taste what they thought were conventionally and organically-produced chocolate biscuits, yoghurts and crisps. The shoppers are asked how tasty and nutritious they found the snacks, how many calories they thought they contained and how much they’d be willing to pay for them.

據一份來自美國研究員的調查顯示，通過對150名在超市購買有機食品的顧客分發了調查問卷，詢問他們對於有機零食（酸奶、餅乾、薯片等）的看法，顧客需要回答他們心中的有機零食究竟是怎樣的？是更營養？還是更可口呢？而購買了有機食品後，同類有機食品的卡路里含量是否會降低呢？他們願意花多少錢購買有機食品？

They were also perceived to be lower in fat and higher in fibre, tastier and worth paying more for, the annual conference of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology is despite them actually being identical to their conventionally-labelled ell University researcher Jenny Wan-chen Lee believes this is an example of something known as the ‘halo effect’.

在顧客眼中，有機食品有很多優點，比如：在纖維含量上會更高、味道更可口等等。美國實驗生物學會聯合會研究指出，人們對於有機食品的“誤解”有點點深，有機食品並非萬能，有機食品只是沒有農藥以及人工添加劑等技術支撐，但是不意味着有機食品含有少量的卡路里，可以達到減肥的功效。