【推荐3】TikTok, a social media app dedicated to short-form videos, has emerged as a major firer of food trends—from mushroom coffee and pancake cereal to cloud bread and feta pasta. But another trend, the #whatieatinaday trend, is dominating TikTok, which is ________ 9 billion views.

Even though #whatieatinaday posts may be ________ to serve as healthy inspiration for others, there’s a growing feeling that these video diaries of daily eats will likely do more harm than good—especially among young girls or people with a history of disordered eating.

The ________ message these posts send is that if you eat like them, then you can eventually look like them. Yet what someone else eats in a day doesn’t mean it’s right for you, since these “________” videos are not a completely accurate representation of what someone typically eats.

Often the overly stylized meals do not________ a nutritionally adequate diet. The posts are ________the illusion (幻想) of an ideal day of eating, along with an ideal body size.

Younger audiences, especially girls and young women, internalize the message that they must eat like these creators to achieve and maintain not only health, but also social ________. The biggest harm with this trend is that it normalizes disordered or ________ eating behaviors. This could prevent someone struggling with an eating disorder from ________ support or treatment.

Even if the #whatieatinaday posts are displaying a balanced day of eating, the ________ message of “eat like me, and you will look like me” is harmful because people will not necessarily achieve the same body size as the ________ even if they copied their day of eating bite for bite.

________, what might be a healthy, adequate day of satisfying meals for one person may be inadequate and unsatisfying to another. Even worse, someone looking at these posts may conclude that they need to be eating half as much to ________.

People making these videos are overwhelmingly thin, young, able-bodied and white. There is a complete lack of body ________. And this encourages harmful comparisons to unrealistic body standards that are ________ to the vast majority of people. Therefore, those of us from marginalized communities are once again unable to see positive representations of our varying bodies, foods and cultural representation in these harmful posts.”

【推荐1】Processed foods like chips, soda and frozen pizzas are full of salt, sugar and fat. Now scientists are trying to understand if there is something else about such foods that may be bad for humans. Scientists have already linked low-cost, ________ foods to rising obesity rates around the world. Three recent studies offer more ________ into how our increasingly industrialized food supply may be affecting our health.

What does processed food mean?

The researchers created a system that ________ foods into four groups. The system says highly processed foods are made ________ of industrialized materials and additives. Sodas, packaged cookies, instant noodles and chicken nuggets are some examples of highly processed foods. But also included are products that can ________ healthy, such as morning cereals, energy bars and some kinds of yogurt.

What’s wrong with processed foods?

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health conducted a four-week study involving 20 people. They found that people eat about 500 more calories a day when ________ mostly processed foods. That is compared with when the   ________ subjects were given less processed foods. The researchers permitted the 20 participants to eat as much or as little as they wanted. They were taken to a medical center so their health and behavior could be ________.

In another study, researchers in France found people who ate more processed foods were more likely to have heart disease. ________, a similar study in Spain linked eating more processed foods to a higher risk of death in general.

What is it about processed foods?

When given less processed foods, people in the study ________ more of a hormone that controls hunger, and less of a hormone that causes hunger. The reason for the ________ is not clear. The scientists also found that people ate processed foods more quickly.

Kevin Hall is one of the researchers who led the study. He told the AP that processed foods are usually softer and easier to chew and swallow. Hall noted the source of nutrients might ________. For example, fiber from whole fruits and vegetables may be better for making people feel ________ than fiber added to packaged foods such as energy bars and yogurt.

What should you eat?

Avoiding processed foods can be hard, ________ for people with limited time and money. Processed foods can also take many forms. In addition, companies continually ________ products to make them seem healthier. The newest studies may provide more reasons to avoid processed foods. But, they also call attention to the difficulty of coming up with ways to do that.

【推荐2】What is a vegan? What is veganism?

Veganism is a type of vegetarian diet that ________ meat, eggs, dairy products and all other animal-derived ingredients. Many vegans also do not eat foods that are ________ using animal products, such as refined white sugar and some wines.

Vegan ________ either a person who follows this way of eating, or the diet itself. That is, the word vegan can be an adjective used to describe a food item, as in, “This curry is vegan”, or, it can be used as a noun, as in,“Vegans like cookies, too.”

Although there is some ________ as to whether certain foods, such as honey, fit into a vegan diet, if you are cooking for other vegans, it is best to be careful and ________ these foods. Most vegans ________ the definition of veganism to go beyond just food and will also avoid the use of all personal and household products tested on animals, and avoid ________ and using all animal-derived non-food products, such as leather, fur and wool.

What do vegans eat?

This is perhaps the most common question about veganism. A vegan diet includes grains, beans, legumes, vegetables and ________ and the nearly infinite number of foods made by combining them.

________, many vegan versions of familiar foods are available, so you can eat vegan hot dogs, ice cream, cheese and vegan mayonnaise along with the more familiar veggie burgers. Many foods are ________ veganism, such as soy milk and tofu, but many non-vegans also enjoy tofu, and you certainly don’t have to like tofu in order to eat vegan.

Vegans also eat many of the same common and ________ every day foods which just about everyone eats. ________, foods such as a vegetarian burrito without cheese or sour cream would be vegan, a vegetarian Thai curry made from coconut milk is vegan, pasta with tomato sauce or another non-meat and non-dairy sauce is vegan, and most breads are vegan.

How can I become vegan?

So you’ve decided to become vegan. But now what? Some people easily go from eating meat to vegan right away, while others struggle with their new ________, or choose to go vegetarian first and then ________ omit eggs and dairy. There's no right or wrong way to do it, but you may want to learn about what's worked for other people. However you do it, keep your ________ in mind and remember why you are choosing to adopt a vegan diet.

【推荐3】American parents usually think that their child should not have more pocket money than the children with whom he regularly connects even if they are wealthier. But neither are children expected to_______with the richer if a large family, heavy responsibilities, or other conditions make it_______to give a child less spending money than is customary in the neighborhood.

Whatever the pocket money is, its entire use is not controlled by the_______, because a child learns to use money correctly only through_______the pocket money himself. If a seven-year-old child gets a quarter as a week pocket money and is made to put it all in his piggy bank to save it up, he gets no idea what the_______use for the money is. He gets the shiny coins and they soon_______.

The idea of a bank account is too early for so_______a child, although he can be made to understand and_______ saving his coins—not all of them, only a part of what he receives—to buy something he especially wants. By the time he is eight, when he is old enough to take part in the opening of his own saving account, parents may take him to the bank, open a saving account for him, and_______him to put a certain quantity of any checks that he receives as________into the bank and watch his bank savings________as entry by entry is made.

He will be saving, earning, and spending________quantities all along in order to learn how to________money and to keep him in a favorable position with his friends. The boy who can't join his fellows in sweet shops________he has to save every cent he gets or earns for some big unknown project his parents have been chosen for him, is a ________child.

【推荐2】Whenever I am in a group of people, I feel like everyone knows what to say and I have no idea. When I do try to join in, I get anxious. I struggle _________ words. This happens at parties or meetings. I feel judged- _________ I were being interviewed for a job. People think I am a loner. Maybe I am.

Individuals experiencing this type of social _________ often avoid eye contact, because it makes them feel _________ and judged. The feelings of awkwardness and not fitting in with others are often disarming, preventing these individuals from _________ themselves and sticking up for themselves in social environments, though they may be _________ at asserting themselves in environments that are focused on a task rather than _________

To _________ into a group, you need to be interested in the topics that others in the group are interested in and talk about them the way they do. Becoming a part of these groups requires that you _________some of your individuality in order to accept others’ __________ and values.

Some individuals are chameleon (变色龙)-like in that they __________ pick up the patterns of relating to different groups and __________ themselves accordingly. For them, this is automatic and they don’t even come to the __________ that they are changing themselves to fit into groups. If you are one of those people who feel __________ in most social group settings, it may be because you __________ changing the way you think in order to feel part of a group. Maybe you are better off.

【推荐3】A teacher teaching Maths to seven-year-old Laiq asked him, “If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?”

Within a few seconds, Laiq _______ confidently, “Four!”

The confused teacher was expecting a(n) _______ correct answer, three. She was disappointed. “Maybe the child did not listen _______” she thought. She _______ , “Laiq, listen carefully. If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?”

Laiq had seen the _______ on his teacher’s face. He _______ again on his fingers. But within him he was also _______ the answer that would make the teacher happy. This time hesitatingly he replied, “Four.”

The disappointment stayed on the teacher’s face. Suddenly she _______ that Laiq like strawberries. She thought maybe he didn’t like apples and that was why he couldn’t answer the question. This time with an excitement in her _______ she asked, “If I give you one strawberry and one strawberry and one strawberry, then how many you will have?”

Seeing the teacher ________ , young Laiq calculate on his fingers again. There was no pressure on him, but a little on the teacher. She wanted her new ________ to succeed. ________ a hesitating smile young Laiq replied, “Three?”

The teacher now had a ________ smile. Her approach had succeeded. She wanted to ________ herself. But one last thing remained. ________ she asked him, “Now if I give you one apple and one apple and one more apple how many will you have?”

Confidently Laiq answered, “Four!” The teacher was ________ . “How Laiq, How?” she demanded in a little annoyed voice.

In a voice that was ________ and hesitating young Laiq replied, “Because I already have one ________ in my bag.”

The story tells us: ________ someone gives you an answer that is ________ from what you expect, don’t think they are wrong. There shall be an angle that you may not have thought about yet.