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Fortunately there are still a few tasty things for us to enjoy in relative security. Their numbers, however, are depleted almost
Fortunately there are still a few tasty things for us to enjoy in relative security. Their numbers, however, are depleted almost
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2009-07-11
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Fortunately there are still a few tasty things for us to enjoy in relative security. Their numbers, however, are depleted almost daily, it seems, by ruthless proclaimations from the ever-watchful Food and Drug Administration and its allies, our doctors, The latest felon(重罪犯) to face prosecution is the salt of life, sodium chloride(食盐).
Apparently, overuse of salt causes high blood pressure and hypertension, the cause of half the deaths in the United States every year. A few years ago the anti-salt campaigners raised such an uproar that salt was banned from baby food.Currently pressure is being applied to food manufacturers to oblige them to label their products to show sodium content. Because doing so would cost manufacturers money, they argue that they have no idea how much salt remains on such things as potato chips and how much sticks to the bag. Furthermore, salt isn’t the only harmful ingredient in food.If the manufacturer has to provide sodium content, why not require him to list every ingredient and specify which are harmful to our health? Cigarettes have a warning printed on them. Shouldn’t the same type of warning appear on canned foods that are notoriously over- salted?
There are endless ifs and buts in the controversy, but the most telling of these is the questionable proof of salt’s effect upon the blood pressure. True, people who cut their salt intake lowered their blood pressure, but where is the scientific proof that something other than salt didn’t do the trick? The most common means of providing dubious proof that salt causes hypertension is to compare societies that use little salt with those that use mountains of salt in their daily diets. Which group has the higher rate of hypertension? Whose blood pressure is lower? What happens when salt is introduced into a group where salt is a novelty? Does the blood pressure rise significantly? Studies of the Japanese indicate that as the world’s greatest salters, they suffer the most from hypertension. On the other hand, the simple, salt-free cooking of several tribes in the Solomon Islands has kept older tribesmen and women from developing hypertension and high blood pressure, ailments traditionally killing their peers in America.No account is taken of the effects of inflation, recession, pollution, crime, and sundry (多种多样的) other ills to which Americans, unlike people on primitive islands, are exposed.
To salt or not to salt? That is the question. Now that the question has arisen, it must not be treated with levity(轻率) but, rather, with searching scientific investigation so that those of us who are preoccupied with both savory(薄荷) food and longevity may decide which of the two is worth its salt.
选项
A、we must stop eating salt immediately
B、she is not convinced that salt is harmful
C、the Food and Drug Administration works well with doctors
D、soon there won’t be anything tasty left to eat
答案
B
解析
根据原文第三段中的用词可以知道,选项B是正确答案。…the questionable proof of salt’s effect upon the blood pressure,…Where is the scientific proof that something other than salt din’t do the trick?等都说明作者对食物盐的坏处持怀疑态度。该段最后一句话No account is taken of the effects of inflation,recession,pollution,crime,and sundry other ills to which Americans,unlike people on primitive islands,are exposed说明造成美国人患 hypertension和high blood pressure的原因不仅仅是salt。这就进一步肯定选项 B是正确答案。
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