VOA标准英语2010年-Diabetes Risk Higher Among Overweight

The World Health Organization says by the year 2015, more than two billion adults will be overweight and 700 million will be classified as obese¹.

In recent years, doctors have focused on the growing rate of diabetes² 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 hips⁴ 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 epidemic⁵ 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 affected⁶ 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 adiposity⁷ [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 hip³ 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 belly⁸ 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 remains⁹ important into older ages in terms of reducing diabetes risks," she said.

The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

 

1 obese   

adj.过度肥胖的，肥大的

参考例句：

• 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。

2 diabetes   

n.糖尿病

参考例句：

• 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。

3 hip   

n.臀部，髋；屋脊

参考例句：

• 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。

4 hips   

abbr.high impact polystyrene 高冲击强度聚苯乙烯，耐冲性聚苯乙烯n.臀部( hip的名词复数 )；[建筑学]屋脊；臀围（尺寸）；臀部…的

参考例句：

• 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》

5 epidemic   

n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的

参考例句：

• 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。

6 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• 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。

7 adiposity   

n.肥胖，肥胖症

参考例句：

• 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

8 belly   

n.肚子，腹部；(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分，膛

参考例句：

• The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。
• His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼馋肚饱。

9 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。