单选题
When it comes to foods, America is not just the
fattest country on earth but probably the most schizophrenic as well--home to
the Big Mac and Weight Watchers, the super model and the couch potato.
The love-hate relationship with food was examined in the documentary
"Fat" which aired on November 3, and if there is any comfort for the more than
90 million overweight Americans it's that the rest of the world is also getting
fatter. "There is an enormous pressure on people to be thin and
to be physically fit but at the same time there is a tremendous pressure and
inducement to eat, "Or Kelly Brownell, professor of psychology at Yale
University and a participant in the programme, said in an interview. "You
will see a Baskin Robbins next to Weight Watchers. You'll see a Family Circle
magazine with a delicious chocolate cake on the cover beside a diet article,
"said Brownell. "At the same time as we have record levels of obesity, we
have record levels of eating disorders too," he said. The
desire to eat fatty food came from a primitive survival instinct to store enough
energy in good times to ensure survival when food was scare. But in a modern
urban society, where fast food chains appear on almost every block, the instinct
to eat far has begun to work against us. The documentary claims
that nowhere is the exposure to junk food more prevalent than in the United
States, where the problem has been compounded by the increasingly sedentary
modern lifestyle. It also says that members of Arizona's Pima Indian tribe are
the fattest people in the fattest country on earth. Until recently the tribe
lived a simple life, but in 1984 when the tribe won a gaming stream. Today the
tribe is plagued by obesity, high blood pressure and heart disease. Just 800 kms
south in Mexico, another branch of the Pima tribe continues to live a
traditional life and eats a traditional diets. These Pima have none of the
problems of their American counterparts, who are on average 27kgs
heavier. Part of the problem, according to Brownetl, is the
intense advertising of junk food in the United States. The average American
child sees thousands of TV commercials each year, most of which advertise fast
food, candy and sodas. The food environment has become so
"toxic" according to the documentary, that some US schools even offers fast food
such as McDonald's and Burger King in school cafeterias.
单选题
"If there is any comfort for the more than 90 million overweight
Americans it's that the rest of the world is also getting fatter." What does
this sentence mean?
A. Overweight Americans will be glad to see the rest of he world is getting
fatter.
B. Actually there is no comfort at all for overweight Americans.
C. The rest of the world had sympathy on overweight Americans.