Life's just not fair. Biologically speaking, women carry more body fat than men.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

Current thinking is that women distribute the fat below the waist because it's a fat storage depot for pregnancy and lactation.

流行观点认为女性,把更多脂肪储存在腰以下,是为怀孕和哺乳提供脂肪储存

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Women tend to distribute the fat in the lower part of the body, below the waist, in what's called a pear shape.

女性则趋向把脂肪储存在下半身,在腰部以下,也就是我们通常所说的梨形身材

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Where fat is distributed is relevant, but both men and women can have fat above the waist in what's called this abdominal obesity pattern.

脂肪的不同分布模式是有关系的,但男性和女性都会在腰以上囤积脂肪,这叫做腹部肥胖模式

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Now, I'll discuss this again later in the class as well, but men and women tend to distribute fat in different parts of the body.

等一下我还会讲到这点,男性和女性的脂肪储存在身体的不同部位

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For women, the good news is that that fat below the waist tends to do less physical damage than the fact above the waist that men more often have.

对女性来说,好消息是,腰以下的脂肪堆积对身体造成的损害比,男性的腰以上的脂肪要少

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