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对“极限饮食”说“不”！ Group says U.S. restaurants promote "extreme eating" [ 2007-02-28 08:49 ] Many U.S. chain restaurants arepromoting "extreme eating" with dishes that pack at least a day's caloriesand fat, without giving customers facts about their orders, a consumergroup said on Monday. Displaying restaurant offerings including a cheese-ladenchicken-and-pasta dish they dubbed "Angioplasta," officials at the Centerfor Science in the Public Interest said such dishes help fuel nationalepidemics of obesity and heart disease.They urged local, state and national governments to make restaurantslist nutritional data on their menus.Michael Jacobson, the group's executive director, took aim at"table-service" chain restaurants like Ruby Tuesday's and Uno ChicagoGrill. Such places increasingly stuff their dishes with extra unhealthyingredients, he said."What we're finding is that table-service restaurants have launchedinto a whole new era of extreme eating," Jacobson said. "If we're going todeal with the epidemic of obesity and the tremendous prevalence of heartattacks and strokes, we're going to have to do something about restaurantfoods."Jacobson's group often criticizes at a variety of restaurant foods.Some critics deride the group as self-appointed food police.Jacobson said restaurants have had more than enough time to voluntarilyprovide nutritional data such as calorie, fat and salt content but many donot."Restaurants have every right to make these foods and you have everyright to eat them," Jacobson said. "But I think at the very least theserestaurants should give consumers the information that would enable themto make some decent eating choices."双语资讯 | 
