Their ability to go on a sustained eating binge while at the bay is due entirely to another creature: the horseshoe crab. These bizarre animals are among the oldest on Earth.

让它们能不停地在特拉华湾狂吃的原因，完全是因为老天爷在那里安排了另一种生物：马蹄蟹，地球上最古老的奇怪的动物。

The question is whether theaddition of these new concepts--glycemic load, a redrawn foodpyramid--can restore sanity to a collective eating binge that hasspiraled out of control.

问题是，这些新概念的补充——血糖指数、重新界定膳食金字塔——是否能使人们恢复理智，停止失去控制的集体大吃大喝。