A person who is obese has large stores of white fat, and researchers think if they can coax the body into making more calorie-burning brown fat, this might help people obese people lose weight.

肥胖的人储存了大量的白色脂肪，研究人员认为如果他们能让身体产生更多产生能量的褐色脂肪，这就可以帮助肥胖的人减肥。

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Large food portions, and the wide availability of good tasting, inexpensive, convenient and high calorie foods and beverages encourages excess energy intake.

人们食量增大，可供选择的美味增加， 便宜、方便和高热量的食物与饮料诱使人们摄入过剩的能量。

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Bizarrely, fast food chain McDonald's offers one of the lower-calorie options, with a large toffee latte containing 241 calories and 32.1g of sugar.

不过奇怪的是，麦当劳快餐店供应的咖啡可谓是一款低热量的选择，大杯的太妃拿铁咖啡只含有241卡路里的热量、32.1克糖分。

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On one day they were given no breakfast before the scans and on a different day they were fed a large, 730 calorie, breakfast an hour and a half before.

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Eat in a large group, said Ubel, and lingering at lunch could boost your calorie count by 25 percent.

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The idea is to "nudge" (Cass Sunstein's catchword) consumers into making healthy choices by either restricting unhealthy ones (Michael Bloomberg's proposed ban on large sodas), mandating disclosure of information (the ObamaCare provision mandating calorie counts on chain-restaurant menus), or mandating the manner of disclosure (for example, requiring a product advertised as "90% fat-free" to be reciprocally labeled "10% fat").

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