Reasons you're not losing weight
Trying to get rid of the pounds but find it useless? A report found that 38 percent of adults in England are obese and 46 percent are overweight. So, why do we find it so hard?
•Your portion sizes are too big.
Portion sizes have expanded over history. Sixty years ago food was more expensive and more scarce and portions were smaller.
•You're not sleeping enough.
When dieters have less sleep over a period of time, they long for sugary or high calorie snacks to "wake up". However, it's not the whole story.
•You're disorganized with the three meals.
Breakfast is "the most important meal of the day" yet more than half of Britons skip it. Actually, it aids your weight loss, making you feel full- until lunchtime without any snacks.
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We might be told that fruit and grains are beneficial to our health. But even they can keep the fat on if we eat too many of them. For example, fruits are good but many are full of fructose（果糖）, which also contribute to weight gain if eaten in large quantities.
| A．You'd better eat nutritious food, |
| B．You're eating too much of good things. |
| C．Here are some of the things we might be getting wrong. |
| D．Besides, eating late at night can largely reduce weight loss chances. |
| E．Now they have grown and contribute to over-eating and unwanted weight gain. |
| F．This won't make you feel better and is indeed a risk factor for weight gain and obesity. |
| G．It also triggers a rise in stress hormone, which demands your body to conserve more energy to cope with waking hours. |
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【推荐1】Public Health England (PHE) is targeting pizzas, ready meals, ready meat and takeaways. The government has also required the food industry to start using healthier food and encourage the public to choose lower calorie (卡路里) foods.
It is all part of an effort to cut calorie intake by 20% by 2024. The target will point to 13 different food groups, which are equal to about a fifth of the calorie taken by children. If action is not taken, PHE said, it would be prepared to ask the government to pass laws.
PHE would strictly monitor the progress by looking at which products people buy and would be prepared to punish companies which do not take on their duties. The government is also organizing a program encouraging adults to consume (吃，喝) 400 calories at breakfast and 600 each at lunch and dinner.
At present, adults consume between 200 and 300 calories more than they should each day. PHE chief nutritionist Dr. Alison Tedstone said the 400600600 tip would make it easier for people to make healthier choices by being able to judge what they should eat at each meal.
How many calories should we eat? It is suggested that a woman eat no more than 2,000 calories a day, while a man should limit his intake to 2,500. For children, it depends on the age. A fouryearold should consume no more than 1,300 calories a day, while for teens aged 17 and 18, it is about 3,000, but overweight children are eating up to 500 calories more than that.
Prof Russell Viner, from the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, said it was a necessary move. He said, “Over the past 40 years, there has been slow growth in food sizes, with pizzas and hamburgers simply much bigger than they were in our parents' time.” The convenience of fast food and the advertisement of unhealthy food and drinks to children add to the problem.
1. What will happen to a company if it encourages high calorie food?| A．It will be punished by customers. |
| B．It will be forced to stop producing foods. |
| C．It will be punished by Public Health England. |
| D．It will be asked to throw away all the food. |
| A．Babies aged 4. | B．Teens aged 18. |
| C．Women. | D．Men. |
| A．The government has passed laws about using healthier food. |
| B．PHE is concerned about the British health problems. |
| C．Men should eat no more than 2,000 calories. |
| D．Hamburgers are not bigger than before. |
【推荐2】Meat and vegetables are measured in grams and kilograms. Milk and other liquid foods are measured in liters or milliliters. These units only measure quantity: they do not measure the value of the food to the body. The unit which measures the quality or value of food is the calorie(热量单位：卡). This measurement tells how much energy a certain food has when it is completely used by the body.
Our bodies use various amount of calories. The more exercise we take, the more calories we burn. If we eat food which contains more calories than we use up, then it is possible that we would increase in weight. In order to avoid becoming overweight, it is advisable to eat a balanced diet and not to eat too many foods that have more calories. The table below gives you some idea of the number of calories in food.
| Meats | Fruits | Sweets and Pastries | Vegetables |
| Slice of bacon 50 | Apple 70 | Small chocolate bar 190 | 60g bean 15 |
| Hamburger 300 | Orange 60 | Large chocolate bar 225 | 60g carrot 18 |
| Slice of beef 100 | Pear 80 | Slice apple pie 300 | 60g potato 60 |
| Sausage 180 | Banana 80 | Doughnut 200 | 60g onion 25 |
| Meat pie 500 | Plum 20 | Scoop of ice cream 85 | 60g cucumber 10 |
| Sausage roll 350 | Tomato 20 | Bag of potato crisps 145 | 60g cabbage 15 |
1. Which is the best title of this passage?
| A．The units of measurement. | B．How to measure the quality of food. |
| C．How to keep fit | D．Calories in foods. |
| A．6. | B．7. | C．5. | D．8 |
| A．chocolate | B．meat pies | C．apple pies | D．fruit |
| A．When we sleep. | B．While watching a play. |
| C．While working in the fields. | D．After getting up. |
【推荐3】Imagine the tallest building in the United States. Fill that giant building 44 times with rotten fruits and vegetables. Now you know how much food Americans waste every year.
It is hard to believe, right? About 133 billion pounds of food get thrown away. That’s one-third of all the food we produce. And a lot of it is thrown away for one simple reason: It’s ugly.
The problem is that nature isn’t perfect. Apples can get scarred (留下疤痕) by storms. Cucumbers grow in C shapes. Carrots change into unusual fork-like forms. Watermelons get too big to fit on a refrigerator shelf. These crazy-looking fruits and vegetables may taste great. But most grocery stores refuse to sell them. Store owners say people judge food by how it looks. No one wants a tomato that looks like a two-headed monster. But what if you could buy that tomato for half-price?
A new movement is trying to make people see the “beauty” in ugly food. Some stores are selling ugly produce. It tastes the same. And you pay less for it because the food doesn’t look perfect.
Usually, the stores find a nicer word than “ugly”. A Canadian chain uses “naturally imperfect”. In some US stores, it’s “misfit produce”. Whatever you call it, ugly food helps many people. Fanners get paid for food they were going to have to throw away. Shoppers get cheaper fruits and vegetables. The ugly-food movement will also help some of the 44 million Americans who don’t have enough to eat. Many groups give the ugly produce to hungry people.
So really, who cares if that carrot looks a little… ugly?
1. Why are lots of fruits and vegetables thrown away in the US?| A．Because they don’t look nice. |
| B．Because they have gone bad. |
| C．Because they don’t taste good. |
| D．Because they are badly polluted. |
| A．The stores selling ugly food. |
| B．The better names for ugly food. |
| C．The number of hungry Americans. |
| D．The benefits of the ugly-food movement. |
| A．The author would like to buy ugly carrots. |
| B．No one would care if a carrot looks a little ugly. |
| C．The author does not quite like the word “ugly”. |
| D．Nobody really wants to buy carrots that look ugly. |
