目前在美国,饮食似已变成了全国性的令人困忧的问题。有的人去参加饮食营,有的人花费巨款在饮食疗养所度假。成千上万焦虑不安的人在购买食谱、食用药及各种炊具。在自动组成的饮食交友小组里,非常敏感地互相“监视着体重”。总之,大约有三分之一的美国人每天都在为饮食而煞费苦心。当报章杂志的分类广告栏中出现“减重秘方”时,人们就会潮水般地涌向登报人,用他们辛苦赚来的钱去换取秘方。 At present, in the United States, diet has become a nationally troubling issue. Some people go to the catering camp, some people spend huge sums of money in the health resort. Thousands of anxious people are buying recipes, edible pills and various kinds of cooking utensils. In an automatically composed diet dating group, they “monitor weight” very sensitively. In short, about a third of Americans take pains to diet every day. When “weight loss recipes” appear in the classified ads section of newspapers and magazines, people flood the newspaper gazetteers in the floodgates and use their hard-earned money in return for the recipe.