Malnutrition remains a serious problem for India. But a new study shows that Ind

Malnutrition (营养失调)remains a serious problemfor India. But a new study shows that India’s leading causes of death now alsoinclude diseases related to obesity（肥胖）such as heart disease.

India’s National Family Health Survey showsthat more than twenty percent of Indians living in cities are overweight orobese. And in the northwestern state of Punjab, that is true for almost fortypercent of women.

Aradhna Tripathi is a business professionalin New Delhi. She said, “ Eating is the most important thing in any Indianhousehold and how you show your love and gratitude(感激) for a person is through thekind of food you serve him. And the kind of lifestyle we are leading is one ofthe reasons why we have the number of obese people increasing every day.

But Aradhna Tripathi says she has decidedto lose weight. Her mother and grandmother are also diabetic(患糖尿病的). In fact, theInternational Diabetes Federation says India is now the diabetes capital of theworld. Researchers say Indians store more body fat per kilogram than Europeans.That means obese Indians are even more at the risk of diabetes than otherpeople.

Doctor Anoop Misra at Fortis Hospital inNew Delhi says the risk of diabetes is crossing social and economic lines.Five years ago, he says, obesity and diabetes were limited to India’s richestpeople, but now things have changed.

But Doctor Misra is hopeful that the spread(蔓延，传播)of obesitycan be slowed. And he says it must start in schools by giving all Indianchildren the same instruction on physical activity and diet.

The World Health Organization says China isalso moving up in obesity rates. The estimate (估计) has reached about five percent countryside andas high as twenty percent in some cities.

1.What is this passage mainly about?

2.According to Aradhna Tripathi , one ofthe causes of the obesity problems is____.

3. What can we infer from the underlinedsentence in Paragraph 5?

试题答案

【答案】

1.A

2.C

3.D

【解析】略