VOA标准英语2010年-Diabetes Risk Higher Among Overweight
时间：2018-12-08 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(六)月
The World Health Organization says by the year 2015, more than two billion adults will be overweight and 700 million will be classified as obese 1.
In recent years, doctors have focused on the growing rate of diabetes 2 among children and young people. But the most common kind of diabetes, type II, is more prevalent as people grow older and gain more weight. Before you know it, there is more fat around the waist and hips 4 than you remembered.
The statistics are scary enough to make you want to stop eating immediately.
The World Health Organization says in just five years [2015], more than two billion adults will be overweight and 700 million will be classified as obese. Being overweight or obese is an expanding problem even in low and middle income nations.
Less physical activity and foods high in fat and sugar are a recipe for a global epidemic 5 of diabetes, the WHO says.
Dr. David Siscovick of the University of Washington in Seattle is one of the researchers who studied how body composition, the ratio of lean tissue to fat, and increased weight affected 6 the risk of diabetes in more than 4,000 adults, age 65 and older.
"If you were in the upper fifth of the population that we studied, the upper 20 percent of the population in terms of multiple measures of adiposity 7 [body fat], you had a four fold increase[d] risk of developing diabetes late in life," he said.
At the beginning of the study, none of the participants had been diagnosed with diabetes. Researchers kept track of their body mass index, waist size, and waist to hip 3 ratio over the next 12 years.
"Even among adults over the age of 75, having a higher body mass index was still associated with a two-fold increased risk of diabetes," Mary Biggs, Unversity of Washington, Seattle stated.
Men who were borderline obese had a five and a half times higher risk of diabetes than those who were just overweight. For women, the risk was about three and a half times higher. The experts believe this is because men tend to have more belly 8 fat.
As hard as it might be, colleague Mary Biggs says making sure your weight stays at a healthy level is the only way to keep the risk of diabetes down. "The results affirm the importance of weight control during middle age and suggest that weight control remains 9 important into older ages in terms of reducing diabetes risks," she said.
The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
- The old man is really obese,it can't be healthy.那位老人确实过于肥胖了，不能算是健康。
- Being obese and lazy is dangerous to health.又胖又懒危害健康。
- In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者，医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
- Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。
- The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
- The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
- She stood with her hands on her hips. 她双手叉腰站着。
- They wiggled their hips to the sound of pop music. 他们随着流行音乐的声音摇晃着臀部。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
- The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
- She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
- His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
- PM2.5 exaggerates diet-induced insulin resistance, adipose inflammation, and visceral adiposity. 细微大气颗粒物PM2.5)能增加饮食引起的胰岛素抵抗、脂肪炎症反应、内脏肥胖。 来自互联网
- Objective To research the relationship between CRP and adiposity. 目的研究C反应蛋白与肥胖的关系。 来自互联网