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"Clean your plate!" and "Be a member of the clean-plate club!" Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or gr
"Clean your plate!" and "Be a member of the clean-plate club!" Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or gr
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"Clean your plate!" and "Be a member of the clean-plate club!" Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or grandparent. Often, it’s accompanied by an appeal: "Just think about those starving orphans (孤儿) in Africa!"
Sure, we should be grateful for every bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the US take a few too many bites. Instead of saying "clean the plate", perhaps we should save some food for tomorrow.
According to news reports, US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies (肚子). A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended by the government, according to a USA Today story.
Americans traditionally associate quantity with value and most restaurants try to give them that. They serve large portions to stand apart from competitors and to give the customers value. They prefer to have customers complain about too much food rather than too little.
Barbara Rolls, a nutrition professor at Pennsylvania State University, told USA Today that restaurant portion sizes began to grow in the 1970s, the same time that the American waistline began to expand.
Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions. Now, apparently, some customers are calling for this too. A restaurant industry trade magazine reported last month that 57 percent of more than 4,000 people surveyed believed restaurants serve portions that are too large; 23 percent had no opinion; 20 percent disagreed.
But a closer look at the survey indicates that many Americans who can’t afford fine dining still prefer large portions. Seventy percent of those earning at least $ 150,000 per year prefer smaller portions. But only 45 percent of those earning less than $ 25,000 want smaller.
It’s not that working class Americans don’t want to eat healthy. It’s just that after long hours at low-paying jobs, getting less on their plate hardly seems like a good deal. They live from paycheck to paycheck, happy to save a little money for next year’s Christmas presents.
A proper title of the passage is________.
选项
A、Why Restaurants Serve Large Portions
B、Income and Food Portion Sizes
C、Clean Your Plate
D、Less Food on the Plate Is Healthier
答案
D
解析
从文章内容可以看出文章强调的是:盘子中的食物少一些,对顾客们的身体健康更为有益。本文根据美国餐馆提供超大分量的食物这一奇怪现象分析了造成这种现象的部分原因,又分析美国人尤其是工薪阶层对这种现象的看法。A、B、C选项都过于片面,正确答案为D。
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