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Marion Nestle’s heavyweight criticism against Coca-Cola and PepsiCo comes at an odd moment for the industry. Americans are drink
Marion Nestle’s heavyweight criticism against Coca-Cola and PepsiCo comes at an odd moment for the industry. Americans are drink
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2018-06-28
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Marion Nestle’s heavyweight criticism against Coca-Cola and PepsiCo comes at an odd moment for the industry. Americans are drinking fewer sugary sodas—in 2012 production was 23% below what it had been a decade earlier. Even sales of diet drinks are losing their fizz, as consumers question the merits of artificial sweeteners. From one angle, it would seem that health advocates such as Ms Nestle have won. Yet in America companies still produce 30 gallons of regular fizzy drinks per person per year. In many countries, particularly developing ones, consumption is on the rise.
Ms Nestle, a professor at New York University, is both inspired by recent progress and dissatisfied with it. That is no surprise. Her first book, Food Politics, remains a bible for those who complain about the power of food companies. In her new book she attacks the industry’s most widely consumed, least healthy product. Soda Politics, she says, is a book "to inspire readers to action". As a rallying cry, it is verbose. When readers learn on page 238 that she will pick up a particular subject in chapter 25, it is with no little dismay that they realize they are only on chapter 17. But what the author wants most is to craft a detailed guide to the producers’ alleged violation, and how to stop them.
Ms Nestle says she would have no complaint with sweet fizzy drinks if they were sipped occasionally, as a treat. However, for millions of people in many countries, they are not. In Mexico companies sold 372 cans of fizzy drinks per person in 2012. About half of Americans do not drink them regularly, but those who do are disproportionately poor, less educated, male, Hispanic or black. 10% of Americans down more than four cans a day.
Drinking a lot of sweet fizzy drinks is plainly unhealthy. Unlike a Big Mac, they have no nutritional value; nor do their calories satisfy hunger. One large study found that for each can added to a person’s daily diet, the risk of diabetes jumped by 22%. There are also links between sugar and heart disease, stroke and cancer. Drinking lots of sodas imposes clear costs on individuals, Ms Nestle argues, but it has a broader cost, too. American taxpayers subsidize corn production and let the poor use government food vouchers to buy fizzy drinks. More important, taxpayers
foot
the health bill for those who develop chronic disease.
In the book Soda Politics, Marion Nestle______.
选项
A、called for food companies to adopt some measures
B、criticized the food industry and the unwise consumers
C、called on consumers to take action against unhealthy food
D、intended to write a detailed guide to the producers’ violation
答案
C
解析
细节题。根据关键词Soda Politics定位到第二段:Soda Politics,she says,is a book “to inspire readers to action”,其中she指代Marion Nestle,故答案句为:to inspire readers to action“激励读者采取行动”。该句上一句提到:In her new book she attacks the industry’s most widely consumed,least healthy product.综合两句我们知道Marion Nestle鼓励读者对不健康食品采取行动。选项[A]called for food companies to adopt some measures“号召食品公司采取一些措施”;该项与答案句inspire readers to action毫无关系,文章强调读者/消费者采取行动,而非食品公司,该项属于偷换概念。[B]criticized the food industry and the unwise consumers“批判食品行业和不明智的消费者”:文章提到she attacks the industry’s most widely consumed,least healthy product,但是并没有提到Nestle批判消费者,后半句纯属无中生有。[C]called on consumers to take action against unhealthy food“呼吁消费者对不健康食品采取行动”;该项与答案句inspire readers to action相符。其中called on“呼吁”=inspire“鼓励”;consumers“消费者”=readers“读者”;take action“采取行动”:action“行动”。故该项表述正确。[D]intended to write a detailed guide to the producers’violation“打算写下有关生产商过失的详细指南”;该项与答案句无关,故排除。综上本题选择[C]。
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