1月12日午间英语新闻：因涨价太多 家乐福将下架百事可乐产品

Pepsi pulled from supermarket shelves inEurope over price increases
因涨价太多 家乐福将下架百事可乐产品

Carrefour, one of France’s biggest supermarket chains, will stop selling PepsiCo products because they have becometoo expensive, in the latest clash between retailers and their suppliers overprices.

法国最大的连锁超市之一家乐福将停止售卖百事可乐产品，因为百事可乐定价太贵。这是零售商和供应商之间由价格引发的最新冲突。

Stores in France will display a note alongside Pepsi, 7up and Lay’s chips, among other products, that reads: “We areno longer selling this brand due to unacceptable price increases. We apologizefor any inconvenience caused,” CNN affiliate BFM-TV reported.

美国有线电视新闻网下属的新闻台BFM-TV报道称，法国家乐福各门店将会在百事可乐、七喜、乐事薯片和其他百事可乐产品旁边放置公告牌，上面写道：“由于无法接受价格涨幅，我们将不再售卖此品牌产品。对此带来的不便我们深表歉意。”

BFM-TV reported that Carrefour would pullPepsiCo products from stores in Italy, Spain, and Belgium, as well.

BFM-TV报道称，家乐福在意大利、西班牙和比利时的门店也将下架百事可乐产品。

This move marks an escalation inCarrefour’s attempts to pressure some of the world’s biggest consumer goods companies to cut their prices after hiking them over the past two years inresponse to soaring energy, commodity, and labor costs.

此举标志着家乐福试图给全球最大的一些消费品公司施压以迫使其降价行动的升级，过去两年来，面对能源、大宗商品和劳动力价格飙升，这些消费品公司也大幅上调了产品价格。

Reuters reported in September that thesupermarket chain had started a “shrinkflation” campaign — slapping warnings onproducts ranging from Lindt chocolates to Lipton Ice Tea advising customers that they had shrunk in size, but still cost more, even though raw material costs had eased.

路透社在去年9月份曾报道过，家乐福掀起了一场“缩水式通胀”宣传活动，在从瑞士莲巧克力到立顿冰茶等多个产品旁边贴上警告语，告知顾客这些产品体积缩水，但价格却更贵了，尽管原材料价格已经回落。

Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard has repeatedly said consumer goods companies are not cooperating in efforts to cutthe price of thousands of staples, despite a fall in the cost of raw materials,according to Reuters.

家乐福首席执行官亚历山大·邦帕尔反复强调，消费品公司不愿意合作，尽管原材料价格降下来了，依然不肯降低数千种主要产品的价格。

But PepsiCo CEO Ramon L. Laguarta said onan earnings call in October that the company anticipated “higher inflation” inits business, which would keep prices elevated this year.

但是百事可乐首席执行官拉蒙·L·拉瓜塔在去年10月的财报电话会议上表示，百事可乐公司预期“通胀率还会更高”，今年产品价格都会居高不下。

Preliminary data published Thursday showed inflation in France ticked up to 4.1% in December, from 3.9% in November. Foodinflation fell from 7.7% to 7.1%, the country’s statistics agency said.

1月4日发布的初步数据显示，法国通胀率从11月的3.9%升至12月的4.1%。法国国家统计局称，食品通胀率从7.7%降到了7.1%。

Walking could lower your risk of type 2diabetes, and your speed may affect how much, study finds
研究：快走可降低患2型糖尿病风险

When it comes to walking and type 2 diabetes risk, it’s not just how much you do it that helps — it’s also how fastyou move, a new study has found.

一项新研究发现，走路可降低患2型糖尿病的风险，不过关键不在于走多少步，而在于走得多快。

Brisk walking is associated with a nearly 40% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life, according to thestudy published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

发表在《英国运动医学杂志》上的这份研究报告指出，快走可将日后患2型糖尿病的风险降低近40%。

The study authors reviewed 10 previousstudies conducted between 1999 and 2022, which assessed links between walking speed and the development of type 2 diabetes among adults from the UnitedStates, the United Kingdom and Japan.

研究作者回顾了1999年至2022之间开展过的10项研究，这些面向美国、英国和日本成人的研究对走路速度和患2型糖尿病之间的关联进行了分析。

After a follow-up period of eight years onaverage, compared with easy or casual walking those who walked an average pacehad a 15% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the researchers found.Walking at a “fairly brisk” pace meant a 24% lower risk than those who easilyor casually walked. And “striding walking had the biggest benefit: a 39%reduction in risk.

研究人员指出，这些研究在对这些成人进行了平均八年的跟踪调查后发现，相比轻松随意的散步，正常的走路速度能将患2型糖尿病的风险降低15%，而相对较快的走路速度则能将患病风险降低24%。大步快走最为有益，能将患病风险降低39%。

Easy or casual walking was defined as lessthan 2 miles per hour. The average pace was defined as 2 to 3miles per hour. Each kilometer increase in walking speed above brisk was associated with a 9% lower risk of developing the disease.

轻松随意的走路被定义为每小时步行不到3.2千米，正常步速为每小时3.2到4.8千米，较快步速为每小时4.8到6.4千米。走路速度每增加1千米，患2型糖尿病的风险就减少9%。

Dr. Michio Shimabukuro, a professor andchairman of the department of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism at theFukushima Medical University School of Medicine, agreed — adding that“increased exercise intensity due to faster walking speeds can result in agreater stimulus of physiological functions and better health status.”

福岛医科大学医学院糖尿病、内分泌和代谢系主任岛袋道穗教授也认同这一研究结果，他表示“快步走路带来的运动强度的提高可以增进生理功能，改善健康状况”。

重点词汇：

metabolism

英/ məˈtæbəlɪzəm /

美/ məˈtæbəlɪzəm /

n.新陈代谢