Macfarlane deduced that whatever the British were drinking must have been important in regulating disease.

麦克法兰推断，无论当时英国人喝的是什么，喝的这个东西都会对疾病的控制很重要。

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The research, published in today's edition of the British Medical Journal, reveals that thigh circumference is linked to the risk of heart disease and premature death.

这项研究发表在今天的《英国医学期刊》杂志上，它揭示了一个人的大腿围是与其患心脏病和过早死亡的机率是相关联的。

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Researchers for the British Nutrition Foundation - part-funded by the poultry industry - concluded that the type of cholesterol found in eggs has minimal effect on raising heart disease risks.

英国营养学基金会的研究人员花费部分资金在研究家禽业上时发现，鸡蛋里的某种胆固醇对提高患心脏病的风险有一定的作用。

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The British writer Iris Murdoch died of Alzheimer's disease.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

"Thatcher's economic policy cured the specific British disease of vulnerability to bouts of high inflation and a Luddite trade-union movement, " said Howard Davies, formerly a deputy governor of the Bank of England and a head of the London School of Economics.

WSJ: Thatcher's Economic Overhauls Still Debated

Margaret Thatcher's conviction, her resolve, her iron self-belief led many to see her as Britain's post-war saviour - the woman who cured the so-called "British disease", tamed trade unions and vanquished the Argentine Junta in the South Atlantic.

BBC: Baroness Thatcher

Dutch Elm disease changed the British landscape in the 1970s by killing large numbers of elm trees.

BBC: By BBC Environment Correspondent Robert Pigott