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vt. 吃，喝；腐蚀；烦扰
vi. 进食；腐蚀，侵蚀

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With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.

We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting people than in eating or drinking.

Then in the late 1500s,food scientists in the Netherlands cultivated large, straight, sweet, red carrots like the ones we eat today.

That just wasn’t where the scene was, even eating! It was the first time ordinary people started going out to eat.

Mules have strong muscles like horses; but they eat less, can work longer, and are gentler, like donkeys.

In the 1600s, people in China used carrots as medicine, but they also ate carrots boiled in soup.

But people still mostly fed carrots to horses, donkeys and pigs, and didn’t eat them themselves.

But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars when food shortages forced people to eat them and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were.

This comfortable cycle, in which the rhythms of the day helped shape the rhythms of the meals, gave rise to the custom of the large midday meal, eaten with the extended family.

They were so busy working that they only ate simple meals.

They ate three meals regularly every dayThey were expert at cooking meals.

They ate big dinner late in the evening.

People with unhealthy eating habits are likely to die sooner.

Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

Modern techniques for producing and shipping food led to greater variety and quantity, including a tremendous increase in the amount of animal protein and dairy products available, making us more vigorous than our ancestorsYet plenty has been lost too, even in cultures that still live to eat.

Meals are the foundation of the family, says Carole Counihan, a professor at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, so there was a very important interconnection between eating together and strengthening family ties.

Its production depends too much on technologyThey enjoyed cooking as well as eating.

It's no secret that the Mediterranean diet is healthy, but it was also a joy to prepare and eat.

It is more costly than what our ancestors ate.

You may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.

We can lead people to eat less while helping the restaurant business.

The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

That would get you back in the restaurant—and make you eat a little less.

Prohibition of models eating non-food stuff.

Professional fashion models are particularly vulnerable to eating disorders resulting from occupational demands to maintain extreme thinness.

People should eat much less if they wish to stay healthy and happy.

One of the prizes used was a lottery ticket ( ' , 彩票), with a $10, $50 or $100 payout, and this was as effective as a tangible gift in persuading people to eat less.

Most kids and adults don't actually feel hungry when they eat half of their meal.

How might this knowledge be used to help people eat more healthily?One possibility is a healthy option that offers the chance to win a spa ( ' , 温泉疗养) weekend.

Eating a smaller portion of food does good to the health of kids and adults alike.

Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk ( ' , 垃圾 ) and should really carry warning labels? It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by.

When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children, he insisted it would solve three problems at once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population during a severe depression, and stimulate the restaurant business.

To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.

There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.

So we're eating out or taking in, and we don't sit down—or we do, but we hurry.

So I've watched a lot of children—talking, playing, arguing, eating, studying, and being young.

In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.

If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories ( ' , 卡路里 ) outside the home.

Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.

Cooking real food is the best defense—not to mention that any meal you're likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant.

Considering that the government's standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear: by not cooking at home, we're not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.

And to save money and still eat well you don't need local, organic ingredients; all you need is real food.

It has been brought on by years of eating anything he could get his hands on.

I like going to newplaces, eating new foods, and experiencing new cultures.

"There are a lot of studies on the relationship between breakfast eating and possible health outcomes, but this may be because those who eat breakfast choose to habitually have health-enhancing behaviours such as regular exercise and not smoking," she say

"What people eat can be medicine or poison,"Rea says.

But some research suggests if we're going to eat sugary foods, it's best to do it early.

For example, she would say, you'll get a spot on your tongue if you tell a lie; if you eat stale bread, your hair will curl.

How might this knowledge be used to help people eat more healthily?

If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories outside the home.

It is widely considered wrong not to eat breakfast.

Many of us grow up believing that skipping breakfast is a serious mistake, even if only two thirds of adults in the UK eat breakfast regularly, according to the British dietetic Association, and around three-quarters of Americans.

One of the prizes used was a lottery ticket, with a $10, $50 or $100 payout, and this was as effective as a tangible gift in persuading people to eat less.

Researchers from the University of Surrey and University of Aberdeen are halfway through research looking into the mechanisms behind how the time we eat influences body weight.

So if something happens to their food source, they have a way of not starving to death until they find more algae to eat.

So the next time you consider eating fallen food, the odds are in your favor that you can eat it without getting sick.

That just wasn't where the scene was, even eating! It was the first time ordinary people started going out to eat.

The sea slugs are so good at gathering energy from the sun that they can live up to nine months without having to eat any food.

They also reported that 87% of people asked either would eat or had eaten food fallen on the floor.

To keep oneself healthy, eating breakfast is more important than choosing what to eat.

To prepare for this before winter, these animals eat extra food to become fat, which gives them the energy they need while they sleep.

We wanted to give people an opportunity to actually see the calories before they purchase the food and make a decision, an informed decision that if they want to make a healthier choice, if they want to eat fewer calories, they can.

What's most important, some argue, is what we eat for breakfast.

When we think of animals and plants, we have a pretty good way of dividing them into two distinct groups: one converts sunlight into energy and the other has to eat food to make its energy.

When winter comes, they return to their hiding places to eat the food.

While the "five-second rule" might not seem like the most pressing issue for food scientists to get to the bottom of, it's still worth investigating food myths like this one because they shape our beliefs about when food is safe to eat.

While there's no conclusive evidence on exactly what we should be eating and when, the consensus is that we should listen to our own bodies and eat when we're hungry.

Wondering if food is still OK to eat after it's dropped on the floor is a pretty common experience.

Yet plenty has been lost too, even in cultures that still live to eat.

They might eat something toxic and damage their health.

They may eat something harmful.

The birds can easily eat pieces of plastic or rubber hands and they can die, said Flack.

Most Americans don’t eat enough fruits, vegetables or whole grains.

When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

Still, there are good reasons to make positive changes in how we live and what we eat as we age.

The pollutants in the ponds appear to come from fish that fulmars eat when they’re out on the ocean.

It’s no surprise that high-profile athletes can influence children’s eating behaviors, but the scientists were able to quantify how prevalent these endorsements are in the children’s environment.

Fifth graders tended to focus on features of individual eagles ( ' , How big are they? and What do they eat?).

It can forge better relationships and help you cope with life, or it can be corrosive eating away your self-esteem and irritating others.

So how can eating meat have a negative effect on the environment?

By eating food grown in Sudan and Zaire

The man has to find something else to eat.

Oh, Julie invited her friends over in the afternoon and they ate it all.

But there are a lot of products that we eat today that are considered natural that are produced in a similar manner," Genovese said.

What does Nicholas Genovese say about a lot of products we eat today

Tell Tony's mother that she eats no meat.

Thank you, but I don't eat shellfish.

Even if I am on vacation in the mountains, I am eating food someone else has grown, living in a house someone else has built, wearing clothes someone else has sewn from cloth woven by others, using electricity someone else is distributing to my house.

"In America there are large ants which can eat whole trees bare as a broom handle in a single night,"she wrote in the description.

"You're what you eat and drink, and that's recorded in your hair,"said Thure Cerling, a geologist at the University of Utah.

A study published last year in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that people who sleep more tend to eat less unhealthy food than their peers who don't get as much rest.

Apart from what people eat, I've also seen many interesting slimming products.

As a group, "night owl" types tend to eat less healthy food and take in more calories overall than early risers.

Dehydration is also a risk when you eat too much protein.

Eat Grub also recommends the crickets as a topping for noodles, soups and salads.

Eat Grub is Britain's first new food company that breaks western food boundaries by introducing edible insects as a new source of food.

If you are at home trying to decide where to go for dinner, however, the knowledge component may prevail, and you decide to go where you can eat a healthier meal.

If you eat two eggs topped with a little bit of cheese and an orange on the side, you already have 22 grams of protein.

It's not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species, including viruses like influenza, the bacteria in your gut, plants that you eat, animals that you enjoy or that provide you with meat.

Most Americans don't eat enough fruits, vegetables or whole grains.

Participants in the study were separated into two groups—one group was asked to eat 30 grams of protein per meal in the form of whole foods.

She says she is aware that plenty of people do not want to eat genetically modified crops, but she is pushing ahead with every available tool until one works.

That's why women are told to eat 25 grams a fiber a day—men even more.

"The birds can easily eat pieces of plastic or rubber hands and they can die, " said Flack.

The bottom line here is the more fiber you eat, perhaps, a lower level of hormone in your body, and therefore, a lower lifetime risk of developing breast cancer.

The Mediterranean region is warm and sunny, and produces large supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables almost year round that people eat many times a day.

There may be a third factor that impacts both of them, or the relationship could be reversed, that is people who eat less fall asleep earlier.

This important study demonstrates that the more fiber you eat during your high school years, the lower your risk is in developing breast cancer in later life.

Thus, body weight is not always the best indicator of health and a thin person still needs to eat well and exercise regularly.

Vegans can benefit from protein supplements since they do not eat animal-based protein sources like meat, dairy or eggs.

A dog's eating habit requires regular training before it is properly established.

A new report found 46 percent of meals are eaten alone in America.

Again, not a move, the next time, I had my camera ready to record what you see here, one of several dozen such pictures, so long as she had a slice to eat, she never bothered the one on her head.

All the dogs sit, play, or run around while people drink coffee and eat sandwiches.

Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home.

And that's precisely why one garbage-eating Frenchman has caught our attention.

And while you're at it, actually sit down to eat.

Any smell might attract natural enemies that would try to eat the little comforting pats.

As a result, people will eat more food to try to make up for that something missing.

Because there is more food to eat.

Boldness means a decision to bite off more than you are sure you can eat.

Dark environments are more likely to encourage overeating, for people are often less self-conscious (难为情) when they're in poorly lit places – and so more likely to eat lots of food.

Even worse, the amount of fast food that people eat goes up.

Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which gradually turned into chopsticks.

For breakfast, we were able to eat papaya and other fruits from their trees in the backyard.

For example, the first letters of "my elephant eats too many eels" spell out the hidden message "meet me".

Good! According to an article I've just read, that encourages healthy eating in kids.

He ate snow and drank water from a nearby stream so that his body wouldn't lose too much water.

He can't help checking even at inappropriate times like when we are eating in a restaurant and I am talking to him! he behaves as if any small amount of boredom can make him feel the need to check his phone even when he knows he shouldn't.

I can't wait! there's so much to see and do and eat! Paris has some of the most wonderful cheeses in the world.

I consulted with a physician, I hired a fitness coach, and I began to eat small and healthy meals.

I didn't mean to eat anything but the ice cream looked so good that I couldn't help trying it.

I had roast chicken yesterday when I ate out with Shelly.

If a predator can eat several species, it can survive the extinction of one of them.

I'm just going home to have something to eat.

In addition to being more in touch with the food she's eating, another joy comes from passing this knowledge and this desire for good food to her children.

In india, for example, most people traditionally eat with their hands.

In many cultures, round foods such as grapes, bread, and moon cakes are eaten at welcome celebrations to represent family unity.

In much of asia, especially the so-called "rice bowl" cultures of China, japan, korea, and vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks.

In one study, people who ate meals in a blue room consumed 33 percent less than those in a yellow or red room.

In that case, eat before the flight, or an empty stomach will prevent you from sleeping.

By eating more fast food, people will get more salt and fat than they need in their diet.

Is there any food you don't eat?

It is eating all the vegetables and destroying everything in its path.

Let's not pick these peaches until this weekend so that they get sweet enough to be eaten.

Many westerners who/that come to China cook much less than in their own countries once they realize how cheap it can be to eat out.

Most cats just drag food home because it's a safe place to eat.

One day, the cow was eating grass when it began to rain heavily.

One of the very best varieties for eating quality is Orleans Reinette, but you'll need a warm, sheltered place with perfect soil to grow it, so it's a pipe dream for most apple lovers who fall for it.

Only at dinnertime are we eating together anymore, 74 percent, according to statistics from the report.

Our hosts shared many of their experiences and recommended wonderful places to eat, shop, and visit.

Out comes a "soft-serve" creamy dessert, to be eaten right away.

People who eat slowly tend to consume about 70 fewer calories per meal than those who rush through their meals.

Researchers have found that there is a direct link between the increase in food eaten outside the home and the rise in weight problems.

Say your cat weight 5kg and eats one can of food each day.

Slowly they came to trust me, and by the end of the year they were eating out of my hand.

So instead of eating a piece of yesterday's bread from the supermarket, you'd eat something baked just for you on demand.

Sometimes her family didn't have enough to eat.

Take visual hints that influence what we eat: diners served themselves about 20 percent more pasta when their plates matched their food.

That freedom to choose is one reason more people like to eat alone.

The foods we eat—and when and how we eat them—are often unique to a particular culture or may even differ between rural and urban areas within one country.

The key is that before bills and living expenses start to eat away your salary, you should put aside the savings portion of your pay.

The man is having trouble deciding what to eat.

The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I'm already hungry and there is nothing ready to eat.

The next time you're standing at the sink waiting for it to fill while cooking noodle soup that you'll have to eat until a large bag of cash falls out of the sky, don't be desperate.

The obvious one is money: eating out once or twice a week may be affordable but doing this most days adds up.

The wind blew non-stop, and all the food I ate, and the very air I breathed, were filled with sand, sand, sand!

The woman often eats out for breakfast.

Then we can go out and eat before we see a film.

There, sitting in the shade against its strong trunk, I read my books, ate my candy and drank my orange juice.

These were the real deal- and at that moment, I realized that the best part of sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New York I wouldn't be experiencing again for months.

They are required to process the food that we eat, to recover from injury and for several other bodily functions.

They never touch anything unless they're eating it, or unless something is eating them.

They saw a man eating out of a garbage can.

Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, lived in constant fear of meat-eating animals.

We eat about 22 percent more when using a 12-inch plate instead of a 10-inch plate.

When a predator always eats huge numbers of a single prey, the two species are strongly linked; when a predator lives on various species, they are weakly linked.

When berlin restaurant customers ate in darkness, they couldn't tell how much they'd had: those given extra-large shares ate more than everyone else, but were none the wiser—they didn't feel fuller, and they were just as ready for dessert.

When condors eat dead bodies of other animals containing lead, they absorb large quantities of lead.

While regularly eating out seems to have become common for many young people in recent years, it's not without a cost.

While we were eating, Kurt asked me, " John, what is your plan for personal growth?"

With golden light streaming across the grassy Delta and the animals coming out to eat and drink.

Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them.

They tend to keep a tighter hold on their purse and consider eating at home a realistic alternative.

The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at last making it feasible for wholesalers to consolidate.

Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.

But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down.

Even if families are less likely to sit down to eat together than was once the case, millions of Britons will none the less have partaken this weekend of one of the nation's great traditions: the Sunday roast.

He quotes a giant of classical economies, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like "children who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once" rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.

I came to recognise various signs of a bad paper: the kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.

It's￡16.95 there—or ￡12.99 for a large pizza from Domino's: I know which I'd rather eat.

Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at las

These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues.