受访者中有5362人于1946年出生,另有两万人于1958年出生,研究人员自其出生后就开始跟踪调查,包括测量体重、血压,并评估他们的生活方式。研究发现,两组人群都在20世纪80年代开始增重,且此后体重持续增加。
Dr Rebecca Hardy, the council’s programme leader on body size, said: ‘Once people become overweight, they continue relentlessly upwards. They hardly ever go back down.
理事会体型研究项目负责人丽贝卡 哈代博士说:“人们一旦超重,就会不可收拾地胖下去。很难瘦回来。”
‘A few lose weight but very few get back to normal. The best policy is to prevent people becoming overweight.
“有些人可以减掉一些体重,但很少有人减到正常。最好的办法就是从开始就不要长胖。”
‘For men [weight] goes up steadily through life. For women it starts slowly and accelerates in the mid-thirties.’
“对男性而言,年龄越大体重越高。而女性体重则是一开始增长较慢,到35岁,体重才加速增长。”
But the study’s findings do not mean dieting is pointless, as eating less and taking more exercise can increase fitness and lower blood pressure.
但该研究并不意味着减肥无用,因为少吃多运动能促进健康,并降低血压。
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