BBC News: 專家表示 根本不存在肥胖危機

Obesity is a problem everywhere. Obesity. And obesity crisis. Obesity problem. Obesity. Obesity crisis. Obesity is a global epidemic. The truth is there is no obesity crisis. What? Our fixation on weight is keeping us from doing things to help people get healthy. Obesity researchers hate it when I say this, but their own data show that obesity is not going to kill us. Most obese people don't have shorter lifespans than non-obese people and actually it's the underweight people who are at most at risk. Obesity only really leads to shorter lifespans at the very highest weights.
肥胖問題已成為一個普遍問題。肥胖……肥胖危機……肥胖問題……肥胖……肥胖危機……肥胖是一種全球性流行病。然而真相是：根本沒有什么肥胖危機。很驚訝吧！人們對體重的執(zhí)念阻止了我們?nèi)プ瞿承┦?，并以此來幫助人們保持健康。肥胖專家們都討厭我這么說，但是他們自己的數(shù)據(jù)卻顯示，肥胖并不能致人死亡。大多數(shù)肥胖者的壽命并不比非肥胖者短，而且事實上，反而是偏瘦的人風(fēng)險最大。只有在體重極度超標(biāo)時，肥胖才會導(dǎo)致壽命縮短。
So why does everybody think obesity is deadly? Well, one reason is that obesity is correlated with three different things that we do know is deadly and they do shorten lifespan. Being sedentary. Having lower income. And not getting enough medical care. Everyone, the media, the medical community operate from the unwavering assumption that obesity is deadly. So any evidence that comes along that contradicts that, they just write it off. It is true that obese people are more likely to get diabetes and cardiovascular disease. But there are two things you need to realize. First of all, the obesity paradox. When obese people get these diseases, they're less likely to die of them than non-obese people. What? They're less likely to die of them than non-obese people. And second, to reduce your risk for those diseases, you don't actually have to get thin. You just need to exercise.
那么，為什么大家都覺得肥胖是致命的呢?一個原因是，肥胖與三件已知的會致命且會導(dǎo)致壽命縮短的事情有關(guān)。其一，久坐；其二，收入較低；其三，未獲得足夠的醫(yī)療保健。每個個體，媒體，還有醫(yī)學(xué)界，都依據(jù)一個堅定的假設(shè)——肥胖是致命的——來行事。所有從這一假設(shè)出發(fā)得出的與之相悖的結(jié)論，都會直接被大家忽略掉。雖然，肥胖者確實比非肥胖者更容易患上糖尿病和心血管疾病，但有兩件事你要知道。第一，肥胖悖論。與患病的非肥胖者相比，那些患病的肥胖者死于這些疾病的幾率相對要小。很驚訝吧！這些疾病對肥胖者的致死率要小于對非肥胖者的致死率！第二，事實上為減少患上這些疾病的風(fēng)險，并不一定非要去減肥。你需要做的只是去運動。