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第8篇Eat Healthy
"Clean your plate!" and "Be a member of the clean-plate club1!
Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or
grandparent. Often, it’s panied by an appeal: “Just think about those starving orphans in Africa!2" Sure, we should be grateful forevery bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the US take too many bites3. 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. A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount mended by the
government, according to a USA Today Americans traditionally associate quantity with value and most restaurants try to give them that. They prefer to have plain about too much food rather than too little.
Barbara Rolls, a nutrition professor at Pennsylvania StateUniversity; told USA Today that restaurant portion sizes began (o 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. The restaurant industry trade magazine QSR reported last month that 57 percent of more than 4,000 people surveyed believe restaurants serve portions that are too large; 23 percent had n