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
82
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.
What does William Dietz think of overweight?
选项
A、Overweight should be treated as a public health problem.
B、Overweight should be attributed to gluttony and sloth.
C、Overweight has much to do with nutritional problems.
D、Overweight has nothing to do with the overuse of cars.
答案
A
解析
观点态度题。第五段第一句是William Dietz对肥胖症的看法,句中的obesity as a public health problem表明Dietz认为肥胖症是一个公共健康问题,因此A项为本题答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/pSe4777K
0
考研英语二
相关试题推荐
Themanagingdirectortookthe______fortheaccident,althoughitwasnotreallyhisfault.
Mobiletelecommunications______isexpectedtodoubleinShanghaithisyearasaresultofacontractsignedbetweenthetwoco
ManyAmericansregardthejurysystemasaconcreteexpressionofcrucialdemocraticvalues,includingtheprinciplesthatallc
Thequestioningoftheroleofthepubliegalleryisnotanewphenomenon.Itissomethingthathasbeenarguedoversinceitsv
RuthSimmonsjoinedGoldmanSachs’sboardasanoutsidedirectorinJanuary2000;ayearlatershebecamepresidentofBrownUni
WhenThomasKeller,oneofAmerica’sforemostchefs,announcedthatonSept.1sthewouldabolishthepracticeoftippingatper
Laborisnotjustameaningfulexperience—it’salsoamarketableone.Wheninstantcakemixeswereintroduced,inthe1950s,hou
Organizationsandsocietiesrelyonfinesandrewardstoharnesspeople’sself-interestintheserviceofthecommongood.Thet
Neuroscientistshavelongunderstoodthatthebraincanrewireitselfinresponsetoexperience—aphenomenonknownasneuroplast
随机试题
粉尘在空气中达到一定浓度,遇到明火发生爆炸,一般粉尘越细、燃点越低,危险性就越大。()
患者,女性,26岁,2小时前被锐器刺伤左上腹,即感腹痛,伤口有活动性出血,伴恶心Ⅱ区吐,心慌。查体:T:36.9℃,P:120次/分,R:48次/分,BP70/40mmHg;急性失血貌,唇苍白,四肢稍发冷,心肺未见异常,左腹部可见刀刺伤伤口,有活动性出血
《合同法》第122条规定:“因当事人一方的违约行为,侵害对方人身、财产权益的,受损害方有权选择依照本法要求其承担违约责任或者依照其他法律要求其承担侵权责任。”该条款规定了下列哪一类法律现象的处理原则?(2011—卷一—11,单)
关于施工企业承揽工程的说法,正确的是()。
用人单位依法可单方面解除劳动合同的情形包括()。
1927年12月,在中共中央机关设立的最早的保卫组织是()。
左边给定的是纸盒的外表面,右边哪一项能由它折叠而成?
A、 B、 C、 D、 C本题考查的是交点个数规律。前一组图形中,交点个数分别为3、4、5;后一组图形中,已知图形中交点个数为6、7。由此可知,下一个图形中应有8个交点,答案为C。
【《田中奏折》】云南太学2014年世界史基础真题
[*]
最新回复
(
0
)