Englisch, Vokabular

gleichbedeutend, gleichwertig

It is early days, but in a small subset of patients this mechanism has produced long-term remissions that are tantamount to cures.

nur ein..., läppische...

The five-year survival rate for a set of three common cancers in America and Canada is above 70%; Germany achieves 64%, whereas Britain manages a mere 52%.

die Ungleichheit, das Missverhältnis, der Unterschied

Disparities exist within countries, too.

kreischen, quietschen

FORTALEZA, Brazil — Children’s squeals rang through the muggy morning air as a woman pushed a gleaming white cart along pitted, trash-strewn streets.

feuchwarm, schwül, muffig, stickig

FORTALEZA, Brazil — Children’s squeals rang through the muggy morning air as a woman pushed a gleaming white cart along pitted, trash-strewn streets.

schimmernd, glänzend

FORTALEZA, Brazil — Children’s squeals rang through the muggy morning air as a woman pushed a gleaming white cart along pitted, trash-strewn streets.

übersät, bestreut

FORTALEZA, Brazil — Children’s squeals rang through the muggy morning air as a woman pushed a gleaming white cart along pitted, trash-strewn streets.

entlegen, weit verstreut

Celene da Silva, 29, is one of thousands of door-to-door vendors for Nestlé, helping the world’s largest packaged food conglomerate expand its reach into a quarter-million households in Brazil’s farthest-flung corners.

der Moloch, der Lastzug

unleashing a marketing juggernaut that is upending traditional diets from Brazil to Ghana to India.

das Emporschnellen, ansteigend, rapide zunehmend

The shift, many public health experts say, is contributing to a new epidemic of diabetes and heart disease, chronic illnesses that are fed by soaring rates of obesity in places that struggled with hunger and malnutrition just a generation ago.

sässhaft, sitzend

Even critics of processed food acknowledge that there are multiple factors in the rise of obesity, including genetics, urbanization, growing incomes and more sedentary lives.

etwas einräumen

eingestehen, gewähren

But Sean Westcott, head of food research and development at Nestlé, conceded obesity has been an unexpected side effect of making inexpensive processed food more widely available.

anregen, beleben

The story is as much about economics as it is nutrition. As multinational companies push deeper into the developing world, they are transforming local agriculture, spurring farmers to abandon subsistence crops in favor of cash commodities like sugar cane, corn and soybeans — the building blocks for many industrial food products.

der Tante-Emma-Laden

It is this economic ecosystem that pulls in mom-and-pop stores, big box retailers, food manufacturers and distributors, and small vendors like Mrs. da Silva.

der Schlag, die Kopfnuss, der Einfluss, die Macht

In places as distant as China, South Africa and Colombia, the rising clout of big food companies also translates into political influence, stymieing public health officials seeking soda taxes or legislation aimed at curbing the health impacts of processed food.

hindern, matt setzen

In places as distant as China, South Africa and Colombia, the rising clout of big food companies also translates into political influence, stymieing public health officials seeking soda taxes or legislation aimed at curbing the health impacts of processed food.

die Drosselung, die Züglung

In places as distant as China, South Africa and Colombia, the rising clout of big food companies also translates into political influence, stymieing public health officials seeking soda taxes or legislation aimed at curbing the health impacts of processed food.

untrennbar, unauflösbar

For a growing number of nutritionists, the obesity epidemic is inextricably linked to the sales of packaged foods, which grew 25 percent worldwide from 2011 to 2016, compared with 10 percent in the United States, according to Euromonitor, a market research firm.

gedrückt, gedämpft, kleinlaut

“At a time when some of the growth is more subdued in established economies, I think that strong emerging-market posture is going to be a winning position,” Mark Schneider, chief executive of Nestlé, recently told investors.

die Haltung

“At a time when some of the growth is more subdued in established economies, I think that strong emerging-market posture is going to be a winning position,” Mark Schneider, chief executive of Nestlé, recently told investors.

der Heldenmut, die Tapferkeit, das Können

Brazil also highlights the food industry’s political prowess.

die Menge

In 2010, a coalition of Brazilian food and beverage companies torpedoed a raft of measures that sought to limit junk food ads aimed at children.

abgeleitet, erschlossen, gefolgert

When substituting the deduced type for the template parameter fails, the specialization is discarded from the overload set instead of causing a compile error.

Verzweiflung, Hoffnungslosigkeit

etwas vermeiden, etwas verhindern, etwas abwehren, etwas abfangen

Resistance exercise may help stave off heart, diabetes risks | Reuters (from an article title)

aus etwas Kapital schlagen

Britain and Europe are cashing in on the global appetite for live farm animals.

kurzlebig, vergänglich, flüchtig

When that container was created, the -P flag was used to automatically map any network port inside it to a random high port within an ephemeral port range on your Docker host.

das Leitungsrohr, die Leitung, der Kanal

When you set up a link, you create a conduit between a source container and a recipient container.

einer von beiden

beide

die Verwirklichung, die Folge, die Folgerung, die Auswirkung

die Gerechtigkeit, die Justiz

justice for...

den Darm betreffend

What we now know is that artificial sweeteners enhance intestinal sugar absorption by affecting gut hormones.

die Aufnahme, die Integration

What we now know is that artificial sweeteners enhance intestinal sugar absorption by affecting gut hormones.

dämpfen, schwächer werden

etwas abschwächen

Artificial sweeteners attenuate GLP-1 levels significantly, leading to dramatic increases in circulating blood sugar levels after meals.