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The Walt Disney Company last week announced plans to restrict junk food commercials on its television programs aimed at children
The Walt Disney Company last week announced plans to restrict junk food commercials on its television programs aimed at children
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2014-08-29
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The Walt Disney Company last week announced plans to restrict junk food commercials on its television programs aimed at children. A few days before, Mayor Michael Bloomberg took steps to restrict the sale of supersized sugary drinks in New York. But isolated changes may not make a substantial difference at a time when Americans are gaining weight as a nation. Reducing obesity will require a broader shift in the culture.
For decades, people have treated obesity as a personal failure. They blame individuals and families for eating junk food and choosing television over exercise. But experts in this country and other industrialized nations have increasingly recognized that obesity is caused mostly by social and environmental factors that limit people’s ability to eat healthy foods and get enough exercise. Our modern society, with its enormous and diverse food supply and its host of labor-saving technologies, stacks the deck against them.
The consensus of experts, in a report issued in May by the Institute of Medicine, is that only a nationwide, prevention-oriented approach will work. The causes of obesity are everywhere. Societal factors play a big role: the lack of safe places to play, walk or bike; less time devoted to cooking and more eating out; bigger portion sizes in packaged and prepared food; and endless marketing of junk foods that are high in calories. Sugar-sweetened drinks accounted for at least 20 percent of the increases in weight in the United States between 1977 and 2007, according to one study cited by the institute.
The institute’s report suggests a number of remedies that it believes have been proved to work. In Somerville, Mass. , where some 40 percent of the younger elementary school children were overweight, there was a communitywide effort to offer healthier lunches in schools and restaurants, encourage walking and other physical activities, and change the small city’s culture. Children there gained less weight than their peers in other communities.
In suggesting reductions in children’s exposure to junk-food marketing, the institute cites research showing a causal relationship between TV commercials and the food preferences of the very young. Other ideas are to increase physical activities in the schools to an hour a day and strengthen obesity prevention programs in the workplace.
The institute says that a major cut in obesity rates will require multiple strategies on a population-wide scale. This will be even more challenging than the fight against smoking. But there isn’t any choice if we want to protect the public’s health, the strength of the economy and the government budget.
Why is cutting obesity an important movement?
选项
A、It’s a movement of population-wide scale.
B、It’s caused by social and environmental factors.
C、It’s more important than fighting against smoking on a national scale.
D、It’s beneficial to the public’s health, economy and government budget.
答案
D
解析
事实细节题。根据原文可知,尽管做到全民减肥比禁烟更有难度,但人们别无选择,因为肥胖问题直接关系到了公众健康、社会经济和政府预算,因此,D)“它对于公众健康、经济和政府预算都有好处”为本题答案。A)“它是一项全民性的运动”不是减肥的根本原因,故排除;B)“它是由社会和环境因素造成的”指的是肥胖的原因,故排除;C)“它比全民禁烟更重要”不符合原文意思,原文提出的是减肥比禁烟更具有挑战性,故排除。
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