认识到肥胖是一种伴有严重并发症的慢性疾病，而不是一种生活方式的选择，“应该有助于减少许多肥胖人士所经历的耻辱和歧视。”他补充道。

Recognising obesity as a chronic disease with severe complications rather than a lifestyle choice "should help reduce the stigma and discrimination experienced by many people with obesity," he adds.

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她说：“坐下来，有人看着我，像对待一个人而不是一种疾病一样和我说话，我从中感受到了关心，不再那么孤独。”

"To sit down and have somebody look at me and talk to me like a person and not just an illness, it helped me feel cared about and less alone," she says.

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印第安人由于之前接触了欧洲人（可能是被俘虏的法国水手）而患上了一种疾病，现在人们认为这种病是病毒性肝炎。

The Indians had caught the illness, thought to have been viral hepatitis, from prior contact with Europeans, probably captured French sailors.

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