So the snacking, over-drinking and overeating that makes people fat is not really their own fault: obesity is in large part something that is being done to them.

因此，吃零食、酗酒和暴饮暴食导致人们发胖，并不是他们自己的错：肥胖在很大程度上是他人造成的。

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Why is the obesity problem in Britain so difficult to solve?

为什么英国的肥胖问题如此难以解决？

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That continued to be so when the other variables, from beauty to race to obesity, were controlled for statistically.

对其他的变量，从容貌到种族再到肥胖程度，经过统计对比分析后，结果依然如此。

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So can behaviors like obesity and the ability to stop smoking.

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It's because these are the women who have abdominal obesity, so women are less likely to have it in the first place, but many do, and of those who do and have that metabolic syndrome, then they're more susceptible to the heart disease outcomes than men are.

这是因为研究对象都是有腹部肥胖的女性,女性一开始的确比较少患腹部肥胖,但其中仍有人会有腹部肥胖,所以那些患代谢综合征的腹部肥胖女性,与男性相比更容易受到心脏疾病的影响

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That's because obesity leads to so many different diseases--diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, mental disease--that it's hard to separate out the reasons for the reduction in costs once the employee loses weight.

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