His study shows that a diet high in white rice is associated with an increased risk of Type 2 diabetes, a serious health condition in which the body is unable to properly use sugar in the bloodstream.

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So conceptually the key difference here, besides the syntax looking slightly different, it just means that if you want a chunk of code to execute no matter what initially, ; you can use the do while loop; if you want to check a condition first, you can use the while loop.

所以概念上，则关键的区别是，除了语法看起来有点不同，它的意思是如果你想要一段代码,最初无论如何都要执行，你就可以用do，while循环;,如果你想要先检查条件，你可以用while循环。

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