Eat Healthy
"Clean your plate!" and "Be a member of the clean-plate club!" Just about every kid in the UK has heard this from a parent or grandparent. Often, it"s 1 by an appeal: "Just think about those starving orphans in Africa!" Sure, we should be 2 for every bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the UK take too many bites. Instead of staying "clean the plate", perhaps we should 3 some food for tomorrow.
According 4 the news reports, UK 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 5 recommended by the government, according to a UK Today story . The British traditionally 6 quantity with value and most restaurants try to give them that. They prefer to have customers complain 7 too much food rather than too little.
Barbara Rolls, a nutrition professor at London University, told the Times that restaurant portion sizes began to grow in the 1970s, the same time that the British waistline began to 8 .
Health experts have tried to get ninny restaurants to 9 smaller portions. Now, apparently, some customers are calling 10 this too. The restaurant industry trade magazine QSR reported last month that 57 percent of more than 4,000 people 11 believe restaurants serve portions that are too large; 23 percent had no opinion; 20 percent disagreed. But a closer 12 at the survey indicates that many Americans who can"t afford fine dining still prefer large portions. Sy percent of 13 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 14 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 15 . They live from paycheck to paycheck, happy to save a little money for next year"s Christmas presents. Eat Healthy