"Clean yourplate!"and"Be a member of the clean-plate club!"Just about everykid in the UShas heard this from a parent or grandparent. Often,it's accompanied by an

appeal:"Justthink about those starving orphans in Africa!"Sure,weshould be grateful for every bite of food. Unfortunately,many people in the UStake too many bites.Instead

ofstaying"clean the plate",perhaps we should save some food fortomorrow.

According to newsreports,US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies.A waiterputs a plate of food in front of each customer,with two to four times theamount

recommended by thegovernment,according to a USA Today story.Americans traditionally associatequantity with, value and most restaurants try to give them that.They

prefer to havecustomers complain about too much food rather than too little.

Barbara Rolls,anutrition professor at Pennsylvania State University,told USA Today thatrestaurant portion sizes began to grow in the 1970s,the same time that theAmerican

waistline began toexpand.

Health experts havetried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions.Now,apparently, somecustomers are calling for this too.The restaurant industry trade magazine

QSR reported lastmonth that 57 percent of more than 4,000 people surveyed believe restaurantsserve portions that are too large;23 percent had no opinion;20 percent

disagreed.But acloser look at the survey indicates that many Americans who can't afford finedining still prefer large portions.Seventy percent of those earning at least

￥150,000 peryear prefer smaller portions;but only 45 percent of those earning less than ￥25,000 want smaller.

It's not thatworking class Americans don't want to eat healthy.It's just that,after longhours at lowpaying jobs,getting less on their plate hardly seems like a gooddeal.They

live from paycheckto paycheck,happy to save a little money for next year's Christmas presents.

Which of thefollowing is Not true of working class Americans?

A.They work longhours.

B.They live frompaycheck to paycheck.

C.They don't want tobe healthy eaters.

D.They want to savemoney for their children.