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 foods and encourage the public to choose lower-calorie foods.
It is all part of an effort to decrease calorie intake by 20% by 2024. The aim will point to 13 different food groups. If action is not taken, PHE said, it would be prepared to ask the government to pass laws.
PHE would be strictly monitoring progress by looking at which products people were buying and would be prepared to punish companies which do not take their duties. The government is also organizing a program encouraging adults to consume (消耗) 400 calories at breakfast and 600 calories 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 400-600-600 tip would make it easier for people to make healthier choices.
How many calories should we eat? It is suggested that women eat no more than 2,000 calories a day, while men should limit their intake to 2,500 calories. For children, it depends on age. A four-year-old should consume no more than 1,300 calories, while for teens aged 17 and 18, it is about 3,000 calories, but overweight children are eating up to 500 calories more than that.
Prof Russell Viner, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said it was a necessary move. He said, “Over the past 40 years, there has been a slow growth in food sizes, with pizzas and hamburgers simply much bigger than they were in our parents’ time.” The convenience of fast food at pocket money prices and the advertisement of unhealthy foods and drinks to children add to the problem.
1. What does the underlined word “decrease” in Paragraph 2 mean?A.Encourage | B.Cut | C.Contain | D.Balance |
A.It will be punished by PHE. |
B.It will have to pay extra money. |
C.It will be forced to stop producing foods. |
D.It will be asked to throw away all the foods. |
A.Adult men | B.Adult women | C.Children aged 4 | D.Teens aged 18 |
A.The calorie intake needs to be controlled. |
B.The growth of food sizes meets people’s need. |
C.The fast food should be chosen for its convenience. |
D.The problem about higher-calorie foods will be solved. |
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【推荐1】Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev say that the popular dieting strategy of serving food on smaller plates does not necessarily trick us into eating less.
“Plate size doesn’t matter as much as we think it does,” says Dr. Tzvi Ganel, head of the study in a media release. “Even if you’re hungry and haven’t eaten, or are trying to cut back on portions (份), a serving looks similar whether it fills a smaller plate or is surrounded by empty space on a larger one.”
Some dieters may try eating off of smaller plates, hoping that they will feel full because the serving size appears larger on the smaller plate. This strategy is based on the classic Delbouef illusion (错觉), which found that people seeing a black circle inside a larger circle perceived the circle to be smaller than when the same sized black circle was placed inside a smaller circle.
Researchers determined that hunger seems to help with visual perception of food portions. In the experiment, participants who had eaten recently had a difficult time estimating pizza portions that were placed on larger versus smaller trays. But participants who had not eaten for at least three hours were better able to estimate portion sizes correctly.
The authors remind that their results only applied to food sizes. Both groups of participants performed about the same when asked to compare sizes of black circles and hubcaps (轮毂) placed inside different sized circles. Study authors say the results suggest that hunger strengthens our ability to analyze and process what we are seeing.
“Over the last decade, restaurants and other food businesses have been using progressively smaller dishes to adapt to the perceptual bias (偏差) that it will reduce food consumption,” says Ganel. “This study debunks that view. When people are hungry, especially when dieting, they are less likely to be fooled by the plate size, more likely to realize they are eating less and more ready to overeating later.”
So don’t kid yourself. Put away the Barbie plates and give it three hours. Then grab that giant plate and dig in. Your eyes will choose the right size.
1. Why do some dieters switch to smaller dishes?A.To seek an elegant lifestyle. | B.To measure the serving size. |
C.To have the impression of being full. | D.To see whether Delbouef illusion is true. |
A.The black color. | B.The size of circles. |
C.The strong need for food. | D.The delicious taste of food. |
A.Disapproves. | B.Confirms. | C.Reflects. | D.Discovers. |
A.Dieting requires smaller plates. | B.Your dinner plate affects your weight. |
C.Eating less is a popular dieting practice. | D.Smaller plates won’t lead to less eating. |
You are watching your favorite TV show when a commercial break starts. First you see an ad for candy. Then there is one for fast food. Your stomach growls. Suddenly, all you can think about is how much you need a snack.
If that sounds familiar, you are not alone. Researchers from McMaster University in Canada studied the effects of junk food ad. The researchers examined the effects of advertising junk food on more than 6000 kids through TV commercials and other types of media. They found that kids made unhealthy food and drink choices as quickly as 30 minutes after seeing the ads.
Food and drink ads are everywhere from TV to the Internet. Companies want to make sure you know about their products. They spend nearly 1. 8 billion a year on food ads aimed at kids according to a report.
The Nielsen Company tracked the number of food ads that kids saw in 2015. It found that kids watched nearly 12 food ads on TV each day. Most of these ads weren’t for healthy foods. In fact, on average. kids saw only one ad per week for fruits and vegetables. Instead, most of the ads were for fast food, candy and sugary drinks.
Jennifer Harris, a professor at the University of Connecticut, says this is a big part of the problem. “Unhealthy foods are not things we should be encouraging kids to cat more often”. Harris says. “But unfortunately those are the products being advertised to them the most”.
Health experts say it’s OK to treat yourself to a cookie once in a while. But what can you do to keep from having an unhealthy snack every time you see an ad for junk food? Harris says it’s important to learn to spot the techniques companies use in their ads, tell their kids what is going on and help kids think about whether these products are good for them.
1. What did researchers from MaMaster University find?2. What conclusion can you draw from the findings of Nielsen Company?
3. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
To avoid negative impacts of advertisements for unhealthy food, parents should keep their kids from watching these kinds of advertisements.
4. Please briefly describe what you can do to reduce the negative impact of advertising on your life. (In about 40 words)
【推荐3】How much water does the average adult need to drink every day? “Eight 8-ounce glasses” is common advice, but any truly serious answer to the how-much question will begin with some version of it depends.”
Researchers have long known that a region called SFO in the brain monitors the concentration (浓度) of water and salts in blood and triggers the urge to drink. But they failed to fully explain how we experience thirst. For example, when we gulp a drink, we feel almost instantly satisfied, and yet it takes 10 to 15 minutes for a liquid to enter our bloodstream. Recently neuroscientists have gained other remarkable insights into how thirst is monitored in the body and controlled in the brain.
In a series of elegant experiments with mice, Zimmerman, a neuroscientist, and his associates measured the activity of neurons (神经元) in the SFO. “We saw that their activity changed very fast when the mouse drank water or drank saltwater and when it ate food,” he says. The researchers showed that signals gathered at the SFO from several places. “You get a signal from the blood that tells your current state of hydration (水平衡), a signal from the mouth that tells you how much fluid you drank, and a signal from the gut that tells you what was consumed — was it water, was it something else?” The SFO neurons, he explains, “add these signals together” and then transmit the urge to drink or stop drinking.
The big takeaway of Zimmerman’s work is that for the most part you can trust your thirst system to tell you when you need to drink. But there are exceptions. Because the system’s sensitivity may decline with age. People with certain health conditions, including kidney stones and diarrhea, also need extra water.
Other parts of the brain — the ones used in planning — should help with hydration on hot days and when exercising. Thirsty or not, Zimmerman says, he drinks water before going for a run: “My thirst neurons don’t know I’m about to run 10 miles.”
1. What has long been known about thirst?A.Thirst experience varies among individuals. |
B.Thirst is controlled by the water-salt balance in blood. |
C.Thirst satisfaction occurs with water entering bloodstream. |
D.Thirst response is influenced by the type of liquid consumed. |
A.Why we feel thirst. |
B.Where SFO gets signals. |
C.How we experience thirst. |
D.When SFO neurons get active. |
A.Thirst system is generally reliable. |
B.Illness might affect thirst sensation. |
C.Brain areas for planning aid in hydration. |
D.Brain adjusts to age-related thirst sensitivity. |
A.Drink Your Way to Health |
B.Application of the Thirst Mechanisms |
C.Misunderstanding of Daily Water Intake |
D.Body Detects Daily Water Needs Cleverly |
【推荐1】We seem to find out someone broke into a big company’s databases and left with millions of credit card numbers, passwords or other valuable information. Now a new kind of worry: someone could seize control of your wireless home network and steal your information from under your nose.
That’s the possibility raised by a couple of cyber security researchers from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. The problem, they say, is a weakness in the very protocol meant to make wi-fi secure. That protocol is called Wi-Fi Protected Access II, WPA2. And WPA2’s weakness could allow an attacker within physical range of your wi-fi network to make a copy of that network that they could then control. The researchers call their approach a key reinstallation attack, or KRACK.
It’s important to know that a KRACK attack remains a possibility for now. The scientists realized the threat while investigating wireless security. They’ll present this research on November 1st at the Computer and Communications Security (CCS) conference in Dallas and in December at the Black Hat Europe conference in London.
In their KRACK assumption, wireless devices would be fooled into connecting to the false network. And the attacker would be able to access all of the information that devices send and receive while connected to that network — even if that information has been coded. Android and Linux would be especially easy to attack because of how their encryption keys (密钥) are set.
One measure of protection against such an attack would be to make sure they you’ve installed the most up-to-date versions of your apps, browsers and wireless router software. Updated software is most likely to include the security patches (补丁) needed to avoid falling victim to a KRACK attack, because chances are that KRACK won’t remain simply a proof-of-concept for long.
1. How can the attacker take advantage of the WPA 2’s weakness?A.By installing a key. | B.By approaching physical range. |
C.By copying and controlling the network. | D.By controlling the Internet users. |
A.The false network contributes little to such attack. |
B.If coded, the information will be free from danger. |
C.Android is easy to attack for lack of encryption keys. |
D.All of the information might be accessible to the attacker. |
A.Purchase the best-quality apps. | B.Install the latest relevant software. |
C.Ignore the patches of the computers. | D.Keep the proof of KRACK long. |
A.Sci-Tech Front. | B.Current Affairs. |
C.Global Celebrities. | D.Financial Window. |
【推荐2】In the not-too-distant future, fully autonomous vehicles will drive our streets. These cars will need to make quick decisions to avoid endangering human lives—both inside and outside of the vehicles.
To determine attitudes toward these decisions, a group of researchers created a variation on the classic philosophical exercise known as “the Trolley problem”. They posed a series of moral dilemmas involving a self-driving car with brakes (刹车) that suddenly give out: Should the car change direction to avoid a group of passers-by, killing the driver? Or should it kill the people on foot, but spare the driver? Does it matter if the passers-by are men or women? Children or older people? Doctors or murderers?
To pose these questions to a large range of people, the researchers built a website called Moral Machine, where anyone could click through the situations and say what the car should do. “Help us learn how to make machines moral,” a video asks on the site.
What the researchers found was a series of near-universal preferences, regardless of where someone was from. People everywhere believed the moral thing for the car to do was to spare the young over the old, spare humans over animals, and spare the lives of many over the few. Their findings were published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Researchers found that the 130 countries with more than 100 respondents could be grouped into three groups that showed similar moral preferences. And these preferences seemed to correlate with social differences. Respondents from collectivistic cultures, which “emphasize the respect that is due to older members of the community,” showed a weaker preference for sparing younger people.
The researchers emphasized that the study’s results should be used with extreme caution (谨慎), and they shouldn’t be considered the final word on societal preferences—especially since respondents were not a representative sample.
1. What give(s) rise to the questions in paragraph 2?A.The researchers’ attitudes. | B.The people’s moral dilemmas. |
C.The self-driving car’s power cut. | D.The autonomous vehicle’s brake failure. |
A.Their living habits. | B.Their family members. |
C.Their cultural context. | D.Their educational background. |
A.The complex procedure. | B.The limited questions. |
C.The insufficient participants. | D.The careless respondents. |
A.The New Self-driving Cars | B.The New “Trolley Problem” |
C.Should Car Drivers Be Moral? | D.Does moral preference matter? |
【推荐3】Social media is one of the fastest growing industries in today’s world. A study conducted by the US Pew Research Center showed that 92 percent of teenagers go online daily. The wide spread of social media has changed nearly all parts of teenagers’ lives.
• Changing relationships
High school student Elly Cooper from Illinois said social media often reduces face- to-face communication. “It makes in-person relationships harder because of people’s attention given to their phones instead of their boyfriends or girlfriends,” Cooper said.
Yet, some people believe social media has made it easier to start relationships with anyone from anywhere. Beth Kaplan from Illinois met her long-distance friend through social media. He currently lives in Scotland, but they’re still able to frequently communicate with each other. “I can feel close to someone that I’m talking to via FaceTime,” Kaplan said.
• Wanting to be “liked”
The rise of social media has changed the way teenagers see themselves. The 19- year-old Essena O’Neill announced on the social networking service Instagram that she was quitting social media because it made her unable to stop thinking about appearing perfect online. Negative comments also can do great damage to a teenager’s self-esteem. Teenagers who get negative comments can’t help but feel hurt.
• Opening new doors
However, Armin Korsos, a student from Illinois, takes advantage of the comments he receives over social media to improve his videos on the social networking site YouTube. “Social media can help people show themselves and their talents to the world in a way that has never been possible before,” Korsos said.
1. Who met the long-distance friend through social media?A.Elly Cooper. | B.Beth Kaplan. |
C.Essena O’Neill. | D.Armin Korsos. |
A.It hurts her seriously. | B.It promotes friendship. |
C.It upsets her sometimes. | D.It develops confidence. |
A.Teenagers’ attitude toward social media. |
B.Social media’s influence on teenagers. |
C.A recent study conducted in the US. |
D.New ways of self-improvement. |
【推荐1】What would it be like to live on the moon? Students in the 2021 Future City Competition were challenged to find out. Nine middle school students from AI-Hadi School of Accelerative Learning in Huston, Texas, America took home the prize in the competition.
Middle school teams from the United States, Canada, Nigeria and China joined in the 29th yearly competition. The students used their STEM (science, technology, math and engineering) skills to create a city on the Moon.
The minerals and other resources(矿物质和其他资源) from the Moon helped the team design solutions to the problems humans might face on the planet, including providing enough water, as well as gases(气体) that are necessary for people, animals and plants to live. When asked if they’d like to live in their city on the Moon in the future, the students showed great excitement and interest in the possible moving from the planet Earth.
One winning student Sukaina Salim said, “One of our members had to leave the project because of his bad health. What was worse, COVID-19 created several difficulties for us. But we always encouraged each other to keep trying to achieve our common goals. It was a hard but great experience.”
Team teacher Syeda Batool encouraged the students and offered practical advice for their project.
“The most important thing we learned from our teachers was how to work together to do our job well,” said Mohammad Hani Mirza, who is a seventh grader. “That’s one thing we were missing because we all came from different backgrounds with different ideas, and we worked together to create a beautiful city.”
The winners were given a chance to go on an all-term trip to U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, and $7,500 for their school’s STEM program.
1. What do we know about the Future City competition?A.It is designed for STEM students. | B.It is an international competition. |
C.It is held in America every other year. | D.It is set up to protect the environment. |
A.To list their challenges. |
B.To show us their goals. |
C.To advise us how to work with team members. |
D.To encourage others to take part in the competition. |
A.Hard work will pay off. | B.One should set a goal first. |
C.Teamwork is the key to success. | D.Creativity comes from challenges. |
A.Important skills to win a competition |
B.The best way to achieve common goals |
C.Middle school students wanted to live in a city on the Moon |
D.Students from America won the 2021 Future City Competition |
【推荐2】On February 21, 78 medical students took part in the final MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) exam at the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College in India. One of them, however, was more desperate to pass than the rest. Apparently, the unnamed medical student had been admitted 11 years ago, but had failed the final exam multiple times over the last few years, and this was his final chance to pass. To increase his chance, the man apparently turned to cheating, getting a Bluetooth device implanted in his ear through a surgery. Indian students have made international news headlines for their cheating methods before, but this latest story definitely takes the cake, so much so that it’s hard to believe.
Before the exam officials found a phone hidden in the inside pocket of his trousers connected to the Bluetooth device. Officials searched for the Bluetooth attachment but could not find it until the student admitted under questioning that he had paid an ear, nose and throat doctor to implant the skin-coloured device.
Cheating is rife in India’s highly competitive medical school exams and authorities have in recent years struggled to stop pupils using advanced methods of cheating to pass.
Having a Bluetooth device fitted under the skin sounds both painful and impractical, as the implant would have had to include both a battery and a sealed enclosure. As the folks at Hackaday suggest, it was likely not a Bluetooth receiver, but a bone conduction hearing aid attached to a bone that sends the resulting sound to the receptors of the inner ear via the bone itself.
However, Dr. Anand Rai, a whistle blower in a large-scale entrance exam cheating operation claimed that Bluetooth device implantation was easy to do and had been used in India as far back as 2013.
“It is very easy to get Bluetooth fitted in the ears. It is attached to the ear temporarily and can be removed. Such a technique was used by an accused test-taker in the large-scale entrance exam to clear his medical exam eight years ago,” Dr. Rai said.
1. What is probably the main cause of the Indian medical student’s cheating in the exam?A.The academic pressure that he faced. |
B.His eagerness to pass the entrance exam. |
C.The availability of modern technologies. |
D.The easy operation to get Bluetooth fitted in the ears. |
A.The negative influence of cheating. |
B.The disadvantage of modern technology. |
C.The fact that cheating in exams is shameful. |
D.The ever-more complicated cheating methods. |
A.rare. | B.illegal. | C.common. | D.essential. |
A.It is a recent discovery. |
B.It has been widely applied. |
C.It does more good than harm. |
D.It is nothing new in the exam in India. |
【推荐3】Tugce Seren Gul’s aunt and grandmother were killed in Antakya in Turkey’s southeast. Every night, she waits until 4: 17 a. m. in the morning, the exact time that the disaster hit, to try to go to sleep. “I keep thinking another disaster will strike at that time and just wait for it to pass,” said the 28-year-old Gul.
Experts fear children will be hardest hit. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said many of the more than 5. 4 million children who live across the area affected by the earthquake were at risk of developing anxiety, depression and other disorders.
“We know how important learning and routine are for children and their recovery,UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia Afshan Khan said after a visit to Turkey. “They need to be able to resume their education, and they urgently need psychological support to help deal with the trauma they have experienced.
Psychologist and professor at MEF University, Ayse Bilge Selcuk, said, “As rising poverty and the COVID-19 pandemic have hurt the country, the stress is chronic, meaning that the tension continues over time.” “For this nation to get back on its feet, we need to find that strength within us and that starts with our psychologyshe added. Anxiety, helplessness and depression are likely to be common and young people could feel anger. ” Rebuilding efforts should include mental health,“ Selcuk said. She urged the government to provide money for training psychologists to be sent to the earthquake areas to stay there. “We shouldn’t withdraw our attention three months later, ”she said.
1. What is Gul’s problem after the earthquake?A.She is too sad about her relatives’ being killed. |
B.She can’t fall asleep until another disaster passes every night. |
C.She can not sleep all the night. |
D.She is suffering mental health damage. |
A.More than 5. 4 million children have mental health problems. |
B.International aid is the main solution. |
C.Focusing on mental relief should last. |
D.Young people respond angrily to the government. |
A.Permanent. | B.Destructive. | C.Poisonous. | D.Unbearable. |
A.Experts5 Suggestions about Turkey5 Rebuilding after Quake |
B.Mental Healthcare? an Important Part of Recovery from Turkey Quake |
C.Healthcare Provided for Children in Turkey Urgently |
D.Experts’ Concerns for Problems Caused by Turkey Quake |