Value Family Meals and Car Rides.

重视家庭用餐和驾乘时光。

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They work long hours, care for their family and are simply too tired at the end of the day to prepare meals with good nutrition and suitable caloric value.

她们工作时间长，又得照顾家庭，一天下来简直太累了，没办法去做一些营养丰富、热量适当的饭菜。

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They found that when women sat with men they ate rabbit food or other meals "of significantly lower caloric value" than in all-women groups. The more men dining with a woman, the less she ate.

但是，她和一组研究员在安大略麦克马斯特大学的餐厅逗留数日，暗中观察了470名学生就餐情况，发现与男生一起进餐的女生只吃水果蔬菜或者所吃的食物比全是女生在一起进餐的时候“热量低得多”。

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"It's roots are in value meals for families, so don't throw the baby out with bath water, " she warns.

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Restaurants can push value meals and cut back on promoting commodities-intensive super-size offerings.

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However, value meals generally have lower margins and are offered by the company to attract more customers with the hope that they might spend more on other expensive (and more profitable) items.

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