BBC 英语学习 News Review 垃圾食品成瘾

Chocolate bars and ice cream can be as addictive as drugs.

Now, some scientists think they should come with a warning.

This is news review from BBC Learning English.

I'm Neil, and I'm Beth. Make sure you watch to

the end to learn vocabulary to talk about this story.

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Now, the story The junk food you love might soon have addictive written on it.

A major review has found that adding warning labels to ultra processed food could stop people buying it.

Researchers say these foods can have the same addiction symptoms as they estimate.

One in seven adults and one in eight children are already addicted to ultra processed foods.

You've been looking at the headlines, beth, what's the vocabulary?

We have labels, tackle and slapping.

This is news review from BBC, learning English.

Let's have a look at our 1st headline.

This is from Sky News. Some ultra processed foods should be labeled Addictive, scientists say so.

This headline is saying that some scientists think certain types of foods, ultra process foods, should be labeled addictive, addictive meaning something you can't stop doing.

But we're looking at labels, and it contains the word label.

A label something you find, e.g.

on your clothes or on a packet, which has some information it does.

Yeah, a label gives you information about the object that is attached to, like your shirt.

But here the headline is saying that ultra processed food should literally come with a label that says Addictive on it, right?

So is that it? It's very literal.

It's very clear. But I bet there's a metaphorical use as well.

There is yet. So an a person and objects in activity can be labeled, and this means described in a certain way, often unfairly, e.g.

maybe you tell one lie, and now you're labelled a liar.

We labeled anything at school. Now, maybe a trouble maker?

No, I wasn't labeled a trouble maker.

But maybe I was labeled a clown because I used to like to make funny jokes in the class.

Yeah, OK, let's look at that again.

Let's have our next headline. This is from the Times.

Label ultraprocessed foods addictive to tackle obesity, say scientists.

So there's that word label again that we've just been learning about.

Scientists say we should label ultra process food as addictive so that we can help to tackle obesity.

And tackle is the word we are looking at.

Tackle is a word familiar to every football fan.

It's when you try to take the ball from the opposition.

Is there any connection? Kind of So in football, the other team are the opposition, and you want to beat them.

Now, in the story, tackle is used metaphorically, obesity is what we want to beat or deal with.

And that's why the headline says, we want to tackle obesity, we need to deal with it.

OK? So how else can we use tackle in this metaphorical way?

Well, police might tackle crime. In a city, lots of people are doing what they can to tackle climate change.

Yeah, that's right. I've started riding my bike to work to help tackle climate change.

Let's look at that again. Let's have our next headline.

This is from The Daily Mail.

Slapping junk food with addictive warning labels could help end obesity.

Major review finds so addictive warning labels could be added to junk food.

The word we're looking at is slapping.

Beth, what is slap? It's this don't worry, that wasn't real.

And slap in the headline is also not literal.

It's metaphorical. So slap here means to put a label on to the junk food quickly and urgently.

Yes, that's right. So it's emphasizing that the new labels should be added soon.

It's an urgent situation. And the use of slap, there's a kind of aggression about it as well.

Now, beth, can you give me ten more examples, please?

Ten. We don't have time for ten more.

That's ridiculous.

Well, beth just slapped down. My idea.

And there's another use of slap as a frasal verb with down, and it means to criticize

someone's suggestion. Let's look at that again.

We've had tackle deal with labels describes in a specific way, and slapping attaching urgently.

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