Question

In total, we are now eating 31 percent more calories than we were forty years ago – including 56 percent more fats and oils and 14 percent more sugars and sweeteners. The average American now eats fifteen more pounds of sugar a year than in 1970.

Eight- to eighteen-year-old adolescents spend an average of 7.5 hours a day using entertainment media, including TV, computers, video games, cell phones and movies, and only one-third of high school students get the recommended levels of physical activity.

–“Learn the Facts,”
www.letsmove.gov

Which quotation from this passage supports the viewpoint that adolescents are not getting enough exercise?

“we are now eating 31 percent more calories than we were forty years ago”
“the average American now eats fifteen more pounds of sugar a year than in 1970”
“entertainment media, including TV, computers, video games, cell phones and movies”
“only one-third of high school students get the recommended levels of physical activity”

Answer 1

Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today, nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese. The numbers are even higher in African American and Hispanic communities, where nearly 40% of the children are overweight or obese.

In total, we are now eating 31 percent more calories than we were forty years ago – including 56 percent more fats and oils and 14 percent more sugars and sweeteners. The average American now eats fifteen more pounds of sugar a year than in 1970.

Eight- to eighteen-year-old adolescents spend an average of 7.5 hours a day using entertainment media, including TV, computers, video games, cell phones and movies, and only one-third of high school students get the recommended levels of physical activity.

Answer 2

only one-third of high school students get the recommended levels of physical activity