英语新闻听写 轻度肥胖是新潮流？（在线收听）

Mildly Obese Is The New Black?

轻度肥胖是新潮流？

A study from US epidemiologist Katherine Flegal finds being overweight might actually protect your body against death.

美国流行病专家凯瑟琳发现，过度肥胖可能会降低人们死亡的概率。

The publication Quartz reports, “Flegal found the lowest mortality rates among people in the overweight to mildly obese categories.”

《Quartz》报道称“凯瑟琳发现处于过度肥胖与轻度肥胖之间的一类人是死亡率最低的。”

Flegal and other researchers have been hard at work confirming the validity of this “obesity paradox."

Flegal和其他研究人员一直在努力证实这个“肥胖反论”的正确性。”

Her study finds being overweight helps protect patients with an increasingly long list of medical problems,

研究发现过度肥胖有助于降低

including pneumonia, burns, stroke, cancer, hypertension, and heart disease.

肺炎、烧伤、中风、癌症、高血压以及心脏病病人死亡的概率。