金融时报:有一种痛苦，叫节后内疚

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有一种痛苦，叫节后内疚

Post-holiday guilt并不稀奇，度假途中纵情的不只是眼前的美景，还有一路难以抗拒的美食。大吃大喝过后，换上大码的裤子并不是唯一的坏处，尤其是男性——你们要小心了。

测试中可能遇到的词汇和知识：

guilt内疚[gɪlt]

The Lancet柳叶刀（杂志名）['lɑːnsɪt]

epidemic传染病；流行病[epɪ'demɪk]

strict严格的；绝对的；精确的；详细的[strɪkt]

mortality死亡数，死亡率[mɔː'tælɪtɪ]

pose造成，形成[pəʊz]

BMI身体质量指数（Body Mass Index）

stroke中风[strəʊk]

regain恢复；重新获得[rɪ'geɪn]

Post-holiday guilt and the risk of marginal weight gains （593 words）

By Charles Wallace

We have all had the experience of returning home from a wonderful holiday abroad only to find that our trousers no longer fit.

The need to buy a bigger pair is, however, not the only downside of eating and drinking too much — a study says that being even marginally overweight can increase your risk of dying prematurely, especially if you are a man.

The study, published in The Lancet, was one of the largest ever conducted, involving body mass index data from more than 10m people in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. It provides further evidence that the obesity epidemic — well known in the US and UK — has spread to east Asia as well.

The study's authors said they were concerned that recent research papers had suggested that being overweight but not obese was somehow protective against disease. The results of this meta-analysis show those reports were incorrect, they said.

“We were able to use much stricter methodology to show that actually being overweight and slightly obese are associated with an increased risk of mortality,” said Emanuele Di Angelantonio, a lecturer at Cambridge university who worked on the Lancet study.

The analysis illustrated the health risks that obesity poses. Men who are 35 years old and have a normal weight have a 19 per cent risk of dying before age 70, while the number is only 11 per cent for women.

But when you add obesity to the equation, the risk for men rises to a 29 per cent chance of dying of all causes before age 70, while for women it rises to just 14 per cent. The excess risk for men caused by obesity is thus three times that for women. Going from what the US terms grade-one obesity, defined as a BMI of 25-29.9, to grade two, which is a BMI over 40, causes a rapid, hockey-stick-shaped increase in risk. BMI is defined as your weight in kilogrammes divided by the square of your height in metres.

While the study did not look at causes, other research has shown that obese men tend to have more heart attacks and strokes as well as diabetes and fatty liver disease than women.

The logical conclusion is that obese people need to lose weight but Dr Di Angelantonio acknowledged that this can be difficult. A meta-analysis published in the British Medical Journal in 2014 noted that while attempts to change diet and exercise behaviours were often successful, “few people manage to maintain these changes in weight over the long term”.

But if you are successful at changing diet and physical activity sufficiently to lose those extra kilos, there is a considerable health benefit, Dr Di Angelantonio said. If you are a man and you lose 10 per cent of your body weight, your risk of dying is reduced by 20 per cent, he said. If you are a woman and lose 10 per cent of your body weight, your risk is reduced by 10 per cent.

“Losing weight is a very difficult business and studies show most people tend to regain the lost weight in 12-24 months,” Dr Di Angelantonio said. “That's why we need new strategies for increasing physical activity and healthy eating.”

请根据你所读到的文章内容，完成以下自测题目：

1.What can be increased by marginally overweight if you are a man?

A.the risk of being unhealthy

B.the risk of dying prematurely

C.the risk of sleeping deprivation

D.the risk of malnutrition

答案(1)

2.What is the percentage risk of dying before age 70 that man has a normal weight?

A.11 per cent risk of dying

B.18 per cent risk of dying

C.19 per cent risk of dying

D.35 per cent risk of dying