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The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and for the environment. Those findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.

   There are ways to solve this diet-health-environment problem. But they will require a change in eating habits, And what we eat can be a product of culture, personal taste, price and ease.

   David Tilman is a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota.  In the study, he examined information from 100 countries to identify what people ate and how diet affected health.  Mr Tilman noted a movement beginning in the 1960s. He found that as nations industrialized, population increased and earning rose, more people began to adopt what has been called the Western diet.

The Western diet is high in refined, or processed, sugar, fat, oil and meat. By eating these foods, people began to get fatter and sicker. “The excess, let us say, in the 15 richest nations of the world, right now is on the order of about 400 or 500 extra calories a day that are eaten beyond what people need, and that lead people to gain weight.”

David Tilman says overweight people are at greater risk for non-infectious diseases like diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. “Unfortunately when people become industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these same health impacts, and in some cases if you are Asian, you have them more severely.”

And a diet bad for human beings, it seems, is also bad for the environment, As the world’s population grows, experts say, more forests and tropical areas will become farmlands for crops or grasslands for grazing cattle. These areas will be needed to meet the increasing demand for food.

“We are likely to have more greenhouse gas released in the future from agriculture because of this dietary shift than all the greenhouse gas that right now comes out of all forms of transportation. ”

Mr Tilman calls the link between diet, the environment and human health “a trilemma”. He says one possible solution is leaving the Western diet behind.

28. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the report?

  A. Different cultures may cause different eating habits,

  B. Population increase is likely to lead some people to accept the Western diet.

  C. Western foods will probably make more people overweight.

  D. The Western diet is unhealthy because it is high in vitamins and proteins.

29. What can we learn from the report?

A. The Western diet does less harm to the health of Asians.

  B. More greenhouse gas has been given off from agriculture.

  C. Western eating habits are responsible for some diseases like cancer.

  D. Nearly all people in developed countries consume more calories than needed.

30. The underlined word “trilemma” in the last paragraph means          .

A. a relation to be maintained  B. an opinion causing an argument

  C. a decision to be made   D. a problem offering a difficult choice

31. What does this report mainly tell us?

A. What people eat does influence their health.

  B. Our change in diet will lead to global climate warming.

  C. The Western diet is bad for environment as well as for human beings.

  D. Industrialization considerably shortens the lifespan of the world people.

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