首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Is it any wonder that America is also a country of dangerously overweight people? According to a recent study by the National
Is it any wonder that America is also a country of dangerously overweight people? According to a recent study by the National
admin
2019-09-30
104
问题
Is it any wonder that America is also a country of dangerously overweight people?
According to a recent study by the National Center for Health Statistics, the number of adults characterized as overweight in the United States has jumped to an astonishing one-third of the population. Overweight in this case means being about 20 percent or more above a person’s desirable weight. Since the figures for "desirable weight" have moved upward over the last decade or so, total poundage—even at 20 percent over—may be considerable.
So are the attendant health risks
. Excess weight has been linked to cardiovascular disease, hypertension, adult-onset diabetes and some forms of cancer, among other diseases.
Once, when work and school and the grocery store were a two-mile hike away, Americans could afford the calories they consume. But not now, not when millions spend four or five hours a day in front of a TV set—along with a bag of chips, a bowl of buttered popcorn and a six-pack—and there’s a car or two in every driveway.
"There is no commitment to obesity as a public health problem," said Dr. William Dietz, director of clinical nutrition at the New England Medical Center in Boston. "We’ve ignored it, and blamed it on gluttony and sloth."
If one definition of a public health problem is its cost to the nation, then obesity qualifies. According to a study done by Dr. Graham A. Colditz, who teaches at Harvard Medical School, it cost America an estimated $68.8 billion in 1990. But what’s wrong blaming it on gluttony and sloth? True, some unfortunate overweight people have an underlying physical or genetic problem. But for most Americans, the problem is with two of the seven deadly sins.
Losing weight is a desperately difficult business. Preventing gain, however, is not. Consumer information is everywhere, and there can be few adults who truly believe that hot dogs, fries, a soda and a couple of Twinkies make a good lunch. But they eat them anyway.
As more and more Americans became educated to the risks of smoking, more and more Americans gave up the habit. Now it appears that Americans need an intensive education in the risks of stuffing themselves and failing to exercise as well.
Given the seductiveness of chocolate and cheese, the couch and the car, that habit will be hard to break. But if an ounce of prevention can obviate a pound of fat, it is well worth the struggle.
The author sets up the standard of overweight people based on the fact that _____.
选项
A、the number of overweight people has astonishingly increased
B、people have a different idea about their desirable weight now
C、overweight becomes a threat to people’s health
D、the problem has long been studied
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。作者在第二段第二句定义了超重的概念,虽然没有明确指出为什么要以超出20%为标准,但是从下一句中的插入成分even...可以推断,以前并非以20%为超重的标准,现在以此为标准是因为人们对理想体重的标准改变了,因此B项为本题答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/OSe4777K
0
考研英语二
相关试题推荐
Thesentence"Aftereachrainshower,anotherInternetmillionairesprangup"(Paragraph1)means______.Whatcanbeinferred
Theword"this"(Paragraph1)probablyrefersto______.Itisimpliedthatthemainimpactthatgenetransferbetweencropsan
TheoutbreakofswinefluthatwasfirstdetectedinMexicowasdeclaredaglobalepidemiconJune11,2009.Itisthefirstworld
Thecellphone,adevicewehavelivedwithformorethanadecade,offersagoodexampleofapopulartechnology’sunforeseensi
MillionsofAmericansandforeignersseeG.I.Joeasamindlesswartoy,thesymbolofAmericanmilitaryadventurism,butthat’
RuthSimmonsjoinedGoldmanSachs’sboardasanoutsidedirectorinJanuary2000;ayearlatershebecamepresidentofBrownUni
Thepoorcountriesareextremely______tointernationaleconomicfluctuations.
Theeldestson______allthefamilymemberstodiscusshowtocelebratethe50thweddinganniversaryoftheirparents.
Thankstoslumpingmarkets,investmentbanksaresheddingmanyoftheirhighly-paidtraders.Whenmarketsrecover,thebanksmig
Neuroscientistshavelongunderstoodthatthebraincanrewireitselfinresponsetoexperience—aphenomenonknownasneuroplast
随机试题
家庭访视的目的不包括()
下列说法不符合维生素B1的性质有
埃希氏大肠杆菌的O抗原为
男,56岁,患高血压病8年,近半年来夜间间断胸骨后或心前区疼痛,持续3~5分钟,经过检查确诊为冠心病心绞痛,医生嘱用硝酸甘油,责任护土讲解用药知识,其中哪项不妥()。
A、苯海拉明B、组胺C、西咪替丁D、氮斯汀E、肾上腺素防治晕动病应选用
甲卷烟厂(增值税一般纳税人)2012年10月份的生产经营情况如下:(1)向农业生产者收购烟叶30吨,收购凭证上注明收购价格420000元,另开发票注明价外补贴42000元,并已按规定缴纳烟叶税92400元。另支付运输费用20000元,取得运输公司开具
红军长征的时间是1934年10月至1936年10月,长驱二万五千里,历经千难万险,震撼世界。()
工作岗位设计方法研究中使研究人员易于发现问题的是()。
小王、小李、小张、小苏四人的笔试成绩有“缺考、不及格、优秀、满分”四种情况。在问到他们各自的成绩时,小王说:“小李没有参加考试。”小李说:“小张是满分。”小张说:“小苏不是优秀。”小苏说:“除我之外的三人中,有一人是满分且只有他说的是实话。”如果小苏说的是
Builtin1998byasmallgroupofpassionateeducationandtechprofessionals,Tutor,comoffersone-to-onelearningsolutionsf
最新回复
(
0
)