Health experts has warned that the currently soaring obesity levels in European children may (1)…well…….create health problems of epidemic proportions within the next three decades. Over the past ten years, obesity in six-year olds has doubled (2)…while..the number of obese fifteen- year olds has trebled. If present trends continue, by 2030 between 60 and 70 percent of Europeans will be overweight and 40 to 50 percent will be obese. The (3)…resulting/ consequent...rise in weight-related diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and some forms of cancer will (4)…put…intolerable strains on health services unless steps are taken to address the problem. 

The explosion in child obesity can be put (5)…down….to the increasingly inactive lifestyles of modern children. Many parents, worried lest their children (6)…should/might…..come to (7)…harm..from traffic or strangers, discourage them (8) from playing outdoors and instead provide ever more opportunities for sedentary entertainment in the home. Nor should the influence(9)..of... the food industry be underestimated; (10)………it…..spends one thousand times more on advertising fast foods and convenience foods in Europe and America than the total budget for promoting health in the same two regions.

Giải thích:

1. May well: có khả năng xảy ra
2. While: trong khi
3. The resulting/consequent rise: hậu quả của sự gia tăng
4. Put st on st: làm gì ảnh hưởng đến cái gì
5. Put down: dừng
6. Should/might: có thể + V0
7. Come to harm: bị tổn hại, bị thương, bị phá hoại
8. Discourage sb from doing sth: ngăn cản ai làm gì
9. The influence of sth: sự ảnh hưởng của
10. Spends => động từ chia số ít=> chủ ngữ số ít => it