英語角-圓桌會議 RoundTable1014 - 誰是保健達人？

Topic1 Preventative Healthcare Along with the improvement of living quality, people gradually attach more and more importance to health keeping.

According to the Chinese media, yesterday was the 世界保健日, or world health care day.

So first of all, how do you maintain your health? Any tips to share?

Topic2 Skeptic Offers Huge Reward to Debunk Traditional Chinese Medicine Traditional Chinese medicine is said to have the practical ability of determining whether a woman is pregnant just by feeling the prospective mother's pulse.

This has become a point of contention for a popular Chinese doctor of Western medicine who has issued a 50,000 yuan reward to anyone who can prove he is wrong in saying "Chinese medicine is a fake science".

What is the challenge about?

Topic3 China bans misleading labels on non-GMO products China has banned misleading words like "healthier" and "safer" in advertisements for non-genetically modified or GM products.

According to an announcement on the official Sina Weibo account of China Central Television's Advertising Center, "GMO (genetically modified organism)-free" labeling is also forbidden for use by certain companies if GM versions of their products don't exist in China or anywhere else.

The announcement warned that the State Administration for Industry and Commerce will strengthen supervision of GM labeling.

Why are there GMO-free labels?

Topic4 EPA Head: "I Cannot Control the Smog!"For a long time, whenever smog was rising in cities, people to blame environment protection bureaus for not doing their job. However, the heads of environmental departments in many places complained that "they cannot control the smog!"Is it true that the head of environmental protection bureaus cannot control the smog?

Topic5 Jaywalkers captured by camera and shamed on big screen Pedestrians who cross the road when the light is at red now risk the embarrassment of having their pictures displayed publicly on a screen.

Northern Chinese city of Shijiazhuang has installed video cameras at some of its crossroads to monitor pedestrians and non-motorized vehicles that run red lights.

Snapshots of jaywalkers will be taken by these cameras and then shown on television screens put up beside the traffic lights.

Local traffic police say the number of jaywalkers has been on a decline a week after the devices were installed.

Is there a need for the practice?