Obesity raises susceptibility to cancer, and Britain is the sixth most obese country on Earth.

肥胖增加了患癌症的可能性，英国是全球第六大肥胖国家。

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One study concluded that if you have just four obese friends, your chance of obesity is double that of a person who has no obese friends.

一项研究表明如果你有四个肥胖的朋友，那么你变得肥胖的概率比那些没有胖朋友的人要高一倍。

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And minds need changing, not only about the causes of obesity, but about the obese themselves-who they are (and aren't), and what they represent.

观念需要改变，不仅针对肥胖的成因，而且针对肥胖人群——他们是谁(不是谁)，代表了什么。

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Since last year, four more states reported adult obesity rates of more than 30 percent - meaning that at least 30 percent of their populations are obese.

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Many people with type 2 diabetes are also obese, and obesity is linked to a greater risk of some types of cancer.

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He said although an estimated 30% of the populations of developed countries were obese, the use of anti-obesity drugs was due to fashion.

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Thus, this analysis correlating BMI with risk of dying found that being overweight actually appeared beneficial and that the ill effects of obesity were limited to the very obese.

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