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Stop Eating Too Much "Clean your plate!" and "Be a member of the clean-plate club!" Just about every kid in the US has heard
Stop Eating Too Much "Clean your plate!" and "Be a member of the clean-plate club!" Just about every kid in the US has heard
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2009-05-21
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Stop Eating Too Much
"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 too many bites. Instead of staying "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 prefer to have customers complain about too much food rather than too little.
Barbara Roils, a nutrition (营养) 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 (腰围) began to expand.
Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions. Now, apparently, some customers are calling for this too. The restaurant industry trade magazine QSR reported last month that 57 percent of more than 4,000 people su.rveyed believed restaurants served portions that were 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 (薪金支票) to paycheck, happy to save a little money for next year’s Christmas presents.
选项
A、to save food for tomorrow.
B、to wash the dishes.
C、not to waste food
D、not to eat too much.
答案
C
解析
文章的开头就说美国的父母总是教育自己的孩子要把盘子里的食物吃干净,他们常常会对孩子说“想想那些挨饿的孤儿”。因此,答案是C,美国的父母总是教育孩子不要浪费食物。
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