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As a father to three young girls, I have been particularly struck over the past several months by the flurry of public activity

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问题     As a father to three young girls, I have been particularly struck over the past several months by the flurry of public activity related to childhood obesity. While the efforts are well-intentioned , it’s worrisome to watch the movement gain momentum when we still don’t really know whether what we’re doing is actually working — nor do we really know if there will be any downsides to the anti-obesity initiative. The most recent major move in the fight against childhood obesity came on Jan. 25 when First Lady Michelle Obama announced that school meal options were going to get a lot healthier. It is, undoubtedly, a good idea to make school lunches more nutritious, although some research suggests that by the time a child gets to school, his or her tastes for high calorie or otherwise unhealthy food is already in place and that changing lunch doesn’t make them eat healthier at home. In other words, school-based initiatives may be too little too late for those children who may be predisposed, whether through genetics or environment or both, towards obesity.
    According to the Centers for Disease Control, 17% of all children and adolescents in the U. S. are obese. Yet the majority of obesity programming, especially in our schools, is applied to the child and adolescent populations as a whole. Sure, promoting healthy eating, regardless of one’s weight or age, seems like a positive thing on the surface. But here’s the potential downside: We know kids and teens react differently than adults to external pressures like persistent messaging. Sometimes these pressures can translate into incredible waves of anxiety and fear. At the extreme, a healthy-weight youth could be pushed to monitor his weight more frequently or even begin an unsupervised diet — behaviors that might represent an impending eating disorder.
    So the real question is what are children saying and how are they behaving in light of our anti-obesity effort? A nationally representative survey, conducted last September by the C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health, attempted to answer this question. The results, released in January, showed that 30% of parents of children age 6-14 report worrisome eating behaviors and physical activity in their children; 17% of parents report that their children are worried about their weight; 7% say their children have been made to feel bad at school about what or how much they were eating; and 3% of parents report their children had a sudden interest in vegetarianism. Certainly these data do not directly link the anti-obesity effort and eating disorders. They also do not offer any insight into whether obese children are actually losing weight. They do, however, serve as a reminder of how vulnerable these "worried" children already are to disordered eating and that everything we do, no matter how well-placed our intent, carries risk.
    With that said, we shouldn’t stop promoting healthy eating habits in our children. And we shouldn’t necessarily downplay our anti-obesity efforts for fear of increasing the rate of childhood eating disorders. Instead, we should just be mindful — with their wonderful and special abilities as well as their unpredictabilities, children surely deserve an approach and awareness that is as well-thought out and balanced as the meals we’d like them to eat.
We know from Paragraph 2 that the major concern of the author is that______.
选项 A、people, whether children or adults, may become too obsessed with their weight
B、the healthy-weight children may suffer from eating disorders because of indiscriminate dieting program
C、applying the same anti-obesity program to both adults and children may subject children to malnutrition
D、dieting may turn into an external pressure for children which may impair their health physically and mentally
答案D
解析 本题考查作者要表达的主要论点。作者在第二段中提到，青少年减肥势在必行。但是孩子和青少年可能会在长期的信息灌输下产生成年人不大可能产生的精神压力，而这种压力可能导致焦虑和恐惧。因此，作者主要关注的是减肥项目可能给儿童带来的心理上的伤害，以及由此产生的生理上的伤害。最准确的答案是[D]。[A]和第二段整个论述的内容毫无关系。[B]虽然是第二段最后一句话中提到的内容，但是注意，作者只是将正常体重的儿童患上饮食紊乱症作为一种极端案例提出，其目的还是为了凸显饮食计划对于儿童整体的身心上可能造成的伤害。[C]错在malnutrition一词，作者担心的并不是儿童可能因为减肥项目营养不良，而是因为减肥项目心理受到伤害。
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