Yet the current debate about the global epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer – has ignored this advice. Policymakers have oversimplified the challenge by focusing on the growing prevalence of NCDs – the sheer number of people with these diseases –&#160;which, I argue, is not really the problem.
惠灵顿—艾尔伯特·爱因斯坦有一句名言：“越简单越好，但不要太简单。”但当下关于全球性爆发的非传染性疾病（NCD，即心脏病、中风、糖尿病、癌症等慢性病）显然没有把这句话当回事。决策者将这一挑战简单化了，他们专注于NCD越来越普遍的发生——即罹患疾病人数的陡峭增加，但我认为，真正的问题并不在这里。