解放军文职招聘考试The Organic Foods

  The Organic Foods

Are organically grown foods the best food choices? The advantages claimed

for such foods over  conventionally grown     and  marketed food products  are

now  being  debated. Advocates  of organic foods -- a term whose meaning

varies greatly -- frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more

nutritious than others.

The growing interest of consumers in the safety and nutritional quality of

the typical North American diet is a    welcome development. However, much of

this interest has been sparked by sweeping  claims that the food supply is

unsafe or inadequate in  meeting nutritional needs. Although  most of these

claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of

written material advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general

public to      separate fact from fiction. As a result, claims that eating a

diet consisting entirely of organically grown foods prevents or cures

disease or provides other benefits to health have become widely publicized

and form the basis for folklore.

Almost daily the public is besieged by claims for "no-aging" diets, new

vitamins and other wonder foods. There   are numerous unsubstantiated reports

that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic  ones, that fertilized eggs

are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that  untreated grains are

better than fumigated grains and the like.

One thing that most organically grown food products seem to have in common

is that they cost more than    conventionally grown foods. But in  many cases

consumers are  misled if they believe   organic  foods  can  maintain    

health  and  provide  better  nutritional  quality  than conventionally

grown foods. So there is real cause for concern     if consumers particularly

those with limited incomes, distrust the regular food supply and  buy only

expensive    organic foods instead.

绿色食品绿色食品是最佳食物吗?有人认为绿色食品比通过常规方式生产和销售的食品 有更多的优越性，然而现在却有人对此提出异议。 

绿色食品--这一词的用法非常不统一-- 支持者往往声称绿色食品比其它食品更安全，营养价值更高。  北美的消费者们越来越关注

他们的日常饮食是否安全和有营养。 这一发展趋势是好的。 然而这种关注多半是由一些武 断的说法引起的，即食物供应不安全或不能提供足够的营养。 

尽管这些说法多数未被科学 证实，但是由于大量文章支持这一观点，使得普通群众难辨真伪。  因此那些认为只食用绿

色食品就能防治疾病或增进健康的观点便广为人知，并导致一些不科学的做法和习惯。  公

众几乎每天都被"抗衰老"食品、新型维生素以及其它具有神奇功效的食物广告所包围。  声

称天然维生素优于人造维生素，受精蛋比未受精蛋的营养价值更高，未经薰蒸消毒处理的谷 物比经过处理的好等等诸如此类的报道屡见不鲜，但没有一篇是经过证实的。

 大多数绿色 食品有一共同点，即它们的价格高于以常规方式种植的食物。  但在许多情况下，如果消费

者认为绿色食品能预防疾病且营养价值高于以常规方式生产的食品，那么他们被误导了。如

果消费者们，尤其是那些收入有限的消费者们，怀疑传统食品而只购买更昂贵的绿色食品， 那就值得担忧了。