Question

The Walt Disney Company became the first major media company to ban advertisements for candy bars and junk food on its television channels, radio stations and websites, to stop food manufacturers from peddling nutritionally challenged fattening junk for kids. The ban covers foods with too much sugar, too much salt or a full meal more than 600 calories. Predictably, the outraged public said that banning smoking in public places and artery- blocking transfats in food was bad enough, but stopping them from guzzling comfort drinks by the litres was almost a human rights violation.

2. It seems most people are not just happy choosing their own poison. They also want it in super sized doses guaranteed to kill sooner than later, for after tobacco use, obesity is the biggest public health bugbear that triggers more avoidable diseases and death than malnutrition. Overweight and obesity are the leading risks for global deaths, killing 2.8 million adults each year. Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. The reasons for poor lifestyle choices are many; with almost all driven by socio-economic causes such as low education and limited income. Like killer infections, obesity and the resultant type 2 diabetes, affect the poor more than the affluent, largely because processed and fast food are cheaper and they contain preservatives and processed chemicals. 

3.Limiting food choices, however, is not enough. The need is to get children off their chairs and into the playgrounds. Too much screen time, largely social- networking, followed by online and video gaming and television are making healthy children fat and putting them at risk of type-2 diabetes in the second decade of their lives. The life style disease that interferes with the way the body metabolizes glucose typically affects people in their fifties and sixties and is linked with a host of complications.

4. The official measure of obesity in adults is body mass index (BMI) which is calculated by dividing a person’s weight in kilogram by the square of his height in meters (Kg/m). The WHO definition is : a BMI greater than or equal to 25 is overweight, 30 is obese but the cut-offs for the South Asians are 23 for overweight and 25 for obese.



Choose the option that correctly states the meaning of "Triggers" as used in the passage.
(1 Point)

catch

to switch off

to go on a trip

to activate​

Answer 1

To activate
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Answer 2

The synonym for Trigger is to activate

Explanation:

• The passage speaks about the harmful effects of junk food and candy bars that is promoted through advertisements.
• The use of tobacco can lead to death.
• Obesity triggers or leads to more serious issues like malnutrition.
• Here Trigger means to cause something.
• Activate is a synonym for Trigger.
• In the context of the passage it means that obesity can become a cause for many other issues like death and malnutrition.