You may have convinced yourselves that those 20 extra pounds make you "cuddly", but no matter how many sweaters or layers you pile on, you're still fat.

你可能已经说服你自己那20磅额外的重量让你“逗人喜爱”，不管你穿多少件毛衣或穿多少层衣服，你还是胖。

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Because acidity disrupts the body's chemistry, the hormones needed to convert fat into fuel also fail to function properly, so the obesity persists no matter how healthy your diet becomes.

由于酸会破坏人体所需的化学反应，激素转化脂肪成为能量的反应无法正常进行，这样无论如何健康的饮食都无法阻止你继续肥胖了。

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No matter when you eat, your body will store extra calories as fat.

不管你什么时候吃，你的身体都会储存多馀的脂肪做能量储备。

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While men ate the same amount of fat no matter how much sleep they got, the women averaged 31 more grams of fat after sleeping for four hours.

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In 2002 they found that the arteries in these mice never clogged up, no matter how much fat they ate, an indication that a lack of leukotrienes lowered the inflammation risk behind atherosclerosis.

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The two stories seem unrelated but are actually tightly linked, and together raise the age-old question: If people are too lazy (or busy) to walk from the car to the burger counter, does it really matter if the fries have a little less fat?

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