The WCRF has estimated that 19,000 cancers a year in Britain could be prevented if people lost their excess weight with growing evidence that excess body fat increases the risk of various cancers.

据世界癌症研究基金会估计，如果人们减掉他们超额的体重的话，英国每年可预防1.9万例癌症。越来越多的证据表明，过多的身体脂肪会增加患各种癌症的风险。

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Obesity, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that health may be adversely affected, meets the dictionary definition of disease, argues Professor John Wilding.

约翰·怀尔丁教授认为，肥胖症是指体内多余的脂肪积累到对健康造成不利影响的程度，符合字典中对疾病的定义。

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Because blood is so rich in iron - and because the body has difficulty excreting excess iron - any animal that consumes blood regularly runs a risk of iron overdose.

由于血液富含铁，而身体要排出过量的铁并非易事，所以任何经常食用血液的动物都有含铁过量的危险。

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The water soluble vitamins tend to be used more immediately by the body not stored and excreted through the urine if consumed in excess, so the body can tolerate more variation in intake of these before you start getting toxicity than is the case with the vitamins on the right.

而水溶性维生素往往都立刻被身体所利用,不会被机体储藏,过剩部分由尿液排出,因此机体耐受过量水溶性维生素的能力,相比起右边这栏里的脂溶性维生素,可是要强得多了

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