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Children are getting so fat that they may be the first generation to die before their parents. To-day’s youngsters are already f
Children are getting so fat that they may be the first generation to die before their parents. To-day’s youngsters are already f
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2014-06-13
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Children are getting so fat that they may be the first generation to die before their parents. To-day’s youngsters are already falling prey to potential killers such as diabetes because of their weight.
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Fatty fast-food diets combined with sitting lifestyles dominated by televisions and computers could mean kids will die tragically young, says Professor Andrew Prentice, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
At the same time, the shape of the human body is going through a huge evolutionary shift because adults are getting so fat.
Here in Britain, latest research shows that the average waist size for a man is 36-38in and may be 42-44in by 2032. This compares with only 32.6in in 1972. Women’s waists have grown from an average of 22in in 1920 to 24in in the Fifties and 30in now. One of the major reasons why children now are at greater risk is that we are getting fatter younger. In the UK alone, more than one million under-16s are classed as overweight or obese—double the number in the mid-Eighties. One in ten four-year-olds are also medically classified as obese.
The obesity pandemic—an extensive epidemic—which started in the US, has now spread to Europe, Australasia, Central America and the Middle East. (47)
Many nations now record more than 20 percent of their population as clinically fat and well over half the population as overweight.
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Prof. Prentice said the change in our shape has been caused by an oversupply of easily available high-energy foods combined with a dramatic drop in the energy we use as a result of technology developments.
He is not alone in his concern. Only last week one medical journal revealed how obesity was fuelling a rise in cancer cases. Obesity also increases the risk factor for strokes and heart disease as well as diabetes. (49)
An averagely overweight person’s lifespan is shortened by around nine years while a severely overweight person by many more.
Prof. Prentice said: "So will parents outlive their children, as claimed recently by an American obesity specialist? Yes, when the offspring become grossly obese. This is now becoming an alarmingly common occurrence in the US. (50)
Such children and adolescents have a greatly reduced quality of life in terms of both their physical and psychosocial health.
So say No to that doughnut and burger."
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答案
目前许多国家记录在案的超重人口已经占到总人数的一半以上,其中达到医学上所定义的肥胖的占总人口的20%。
解析
本句为简单句,句子主干结构是Many nations record…。其中more than 20 percent of their population as clinically obese 和 well over half the population as over weight是并列关系。翻译时,要特别注意此处两个数字之间的联系,虽然形式上为并列关系,但语义上后一项内容涵盖了前二项内容,即在占到总人数一半以上的超重人口中,达到医学上所定义的肥胖人数占总人口的20%。翻译时应注意句子倒装及两个并列短语的译法。注意词义引申及词性转换,clinically原意为"临床地",是副词,这里根据句意可翻译成"达到医学所定义的"。
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