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Chris Niedenthal, a Warsaw-based photographer, has taken to slathering his cheese with butter. When he’s thirsty, sometimes he g

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问题     Chris Niedenthal, a Warsaw-based photographer, has taken to slathering his cheese with butter. When he’s thirsty, sometimes he gulps down a nice tall glass of 30％-fat heavy cream. For breakfast he’ll have all the bacon and eggs he wants—but no toast. What is missing from his diet? Fruits, vegetables and all but 50g of carbohydrates a day. "The best thing, really, is fried pork," he says.
    As sure as a yo-yo goes down, then right back up, there will always be new diets. There will always be people willing to offer glowing testimonials to add to the bottom line of the estimated $35 billion—in the U.S. alone—diet industry. Niedenthal says that not only has he lost 12kg in 18 months on his counterintuitive diet regime, "I have much more energy and my complexion has improved." As for his cholesterol levels, well, he hasn’t had them checked yet.
    The diet that Niedenthal follows, the "Optimal Nourishment" plan, was developed by a Pole named Jan Kwasniewski, a doctor whose books are sold on street corners. Optimal Nourishment also resembles a version of the extreme low-carbohydrate mania now sweeping the United States; rumor has it that television star Jennifer Aniston owes her new skinny frame to it. Several current best sellers including a new edition of the Diet Revolution by Dr. Robert C. Atkins of the 1970s and a new book called Sugar Busters! by some very clever businessmen and a doctor.
    The idea behind Sugar Busters! is that anything that raises insulin levels, such as sugar, potatoes, corn, white rice, bread from refined flour, fresh fruits or milk, is bad for you. This notion originally came from the writings of France’s favorite diet writer, Michel Montignac. The French may have obesity levels of only around 8％ (three times lower than Americans), but as their love of anti-cellulite creams reveals, they are not immune from a belief in the miracle cure, and Montignac has benefited handsomely. A former employee of a pharmaceutical firm, he has written 11 books which have sold 9 million copies in 28 countries, espousing the Montignac Method: consume those carbohydrates that reduce the glucose in the blood. "If you’re overweight it’s not that you eat too much but that you don’t eat well," Montignac says. "It’s complete nonsense today to say that in order to lose weight one has to do sports."
    But perhaps not as nonsensical as some of the other weird stuff out there. In Britain there’s a new product called "X-Fat" that is derived from shellfish and allegedly keeps fat from being absorbed by the body. Some Germans have taken to drinking cider vinegar neat. And the truly desperate can always munch on Matricur, a sponge that, when swallowed, swells to 18 times its size and fills up the stomach. After about eight hours, the spongy protein ball, made of cow skin, is digested.
    Not surprisingly, all of this makes nutrition experts despair. "If those methods worked, there wouldn’t be a billion-dollar diet industry," says Bettye Travis, president of the board of directors of the U.S. National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. "People would lose their excess weight and that would be it." British dietician Lyndel Costain agrees. "As slimming industry’s profits get bigger," she notes, "so do our waistlines."
The example of Chris Niedenthal in the first paragraph is used to illustrate that________.
选项 A、Chris Niedenthal is a person with a terrific appetite
B、the author is against Chris Niedenthal’s diet
C、unreasonable diet may contribute to one’s overweight
D、Chris Niedenthal has a high cholesterol level in his body
答案C
解析 本题关键词是Chris Niedenthal，问的是第一段作者列举克里斯.尼登塔尔的例子的用意。初步定位到第一段。根据第一段的叙述可知，克里斯.尼登塔尔的饮食结构十分不合理，但第一段并没有给出任何结论，需要进一步阅读第二段。根据第二段第三句话可知，尼登塔尔采用反直觉饮食疗法减肥，在18个月内体重下降了12公斤，由此得知他原来身体超重，所以克里斯.尼登塔尔的例子是用来说明不合理的饮食可能会导致肥胖，选项C与原文含义相同，为正确答案。饮食结构不合理，并不等于“胃口惊人”，因此选项A属于主观推导。文中没有信息表明作者对尼登塔尔饮食的态度，因此选项B属于无中生有。根据第二段最后一句话可知，尼登塔尔还没测过体内的胆固醇含量(cholesterol levels)，所以并不清楚他体内的胆固醇含量的高低，因此选项D属于无中生有。
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