Many U.S. chain restaurants are promoting "extreme eating" with dishes that pack at least a day's calories and fat, without giving customers facts about their orders, a consumer group said on Monday.

美国一消费者组织于本周一指出，美国很多连锁餐厅目前正在力推相当于至少一整天热量和脂肪的“极限饮食”，而且不向顾客说明所点食品中所含的成分。

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A number of consumer-goods makers have started making smaller pack sizes for older, smaller households.

许多的消费品制造商已经开始为家庭成员少的老人提供小包装。

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However, some retailers and consumer goods companies have now moved to bigger pack sizes.

但现在，一些零售商和消费品企业已经开始向大袋产品进军。

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On the flip side, among the biggest losers were the utilities and consumer goods industries, which led the pack in 2011.

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"The fact you can pack more technology into different consumer electronics devices, on an unrelenting and steady pace defined by Moore's Law, means there will always be another gee-whiz gadget that will intoxicate, " says IDC analyst Crawford Del Prete.

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"While we hope that other companies do not follow suit, history has shown us they adopt a pack mentality on pricing, " said Audrey Gallacher, of watchdog Consumer Focus.

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