Technological progress has long meant an inevitable increase in weight.

长久以来，技术进步就要不可避免地增加重量。

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For an average American woman, this would mean an increase in weight of 5.8 pounds.

对于普通美国妇女来说，这个数据意味着她们的体重要增加5.8磅。

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The reasons why people increase in weight are well known – higher calorie intake and less exercise.

人们体重增加的原因众所周知——高卡路里的摄入和缺乏运动。

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A new study says the weight they gain may increase their diabetes risk in the short term.

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"Such increased usage has been compounded by an increase in the HGV weight limit to 44 tonnes and a move to super-single high-pressure tyres, which all adds to the damage caused to the bridge's road surfaces, " Mr Colford said.

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Communist China has recently surfaced as a major player in the continent's affairs, in an attempt both to put a stranglehold on Africa's natural resources - especially its oil, which currently accounts for nearly 30 percent of Chinese imports - and to cultivate alliances that will increase its weight in the international political arena, with a primary objective being the diplomatic isolation of democratic Taiwan.

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The authors cite one possibility for this slight increase in that those losing weight with lorcaserin were exposed to a somewhat greater dose per unit of body weight.

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