Overweight people have a higher risk of osteoarthritis.

VOA: special.2010.05.19

They're interesting biological reasons for that, but certainly it's relevant, and it's important of course for physicians to be aware of this when they're screening overweight people for Diabetes given that excess risk in the women.

这些生理因素很有趣,也很有意义,考虑到女性的患病风险更高,医生们在为超重人群检查糖尿病时,很有必要注意到女性的患病风险

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If you look at increasing weight as you go from left to right on this axis, lean people, overweight people, and obese people, the risk goes way up for death from cardiovascular diseases.

从X轴左边到右边,随着体重不断上升,精瘦的,超重的,以及肥胖人群,心血管疾病的致死风险也随之增加

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This makes it a great choice of exercise for people with special needs, like pregnant women,older adults, and persons who are overweight.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

People have referred to this as a J shaped curve with this little up tick in the left hand side and people--some people have sort of said, well maybe it's not so bad to be overweight because it's not so good to be underweight as well and that's a problem.

人们把这称为J形曲线,最左边有一个向上的弯钩,因此就有人说,也许超重也不一定就是一件坏事,因为体重过轻也不是什么好事,这是个问题

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These days,there are fewer smokers in the country but more people who are extremely overweight.

VOA: special.2010.01.13