About the 'minimum triangle' which includes a convex bounded closed set

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Question : Is the following true?

"Letting $K$ be a convex bounded closed set on a plane, then there exists a triangle $M$, which includes $K$, such that $|M|\le 2|K|$. Here, $|M|,|K|$ is the area of $M,K$ respectively."

Motivation : First, I've thought about the case that $K$ is a parallelogram. Then, I reached the above expectation, but I can neither prove this nor find any counterexample. Can anyone help?

Update : I crossposted to MO.

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