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[单项选择]Schools have banned cupcakes, issued obesity report cards and cleared space in cafeterias for salad bars. Just last month, Michelle Obama’s campaign to end childhood obesity promised to get young people moving more and improve school lunch, and beverage makers said they had cut the sheer number of liquid calories shipped to schools by almost 90 percent in the past five years.
But new research suggests that interventions aimed at school-aged children may be, if not too little, too late. More and more evidence points to crucial events very early in life—during the toddler years, infancy and even before birth—that can set young children on an obesity track that is hard to alter by the time they’re in kindergarten. The evidence is not invulnerable, but it suggests that prevention efforts should start very early.
Among the findings are these: The chubby angelic baby who is growing so nicely may be growing too much for his or her own good, research suggests. Babies whose mothers sm
A. from kindergarten age
B. as early as infancy period
C. before birth
D. as early as school age
[单项选择]Childhood obesity levels have stopped rising in many rich nations. Some claim it is proof that healthy-eating (67) are working,while others are (68) that it hides differences between rich and poor compatriots (同胞).
Together with a research review that shows the (69) of childhood obesity rates,or even their decrease, in 15 countries (70) over the past decade,new data also showing obesity plateau (稳 定水平) was (71) at the International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm,Sweden last month.
(72) , the claimed plateau is no excuse to (73) the battle against obesity,says Benjamin Rokholm. "The most important message is that the obesity epidemic is not (74) ," he says. "We’ve never had so many obese people in the world, so the plateauing should not be a soothing (使人宽心) message."
Still, it will be (75) some: Rokholm has found that levels of obesity are actually (76) in some countries, most (77)