Now when people gain enough weight, they gain it all over their body, but those are the typical weight gain patterns and it happens for hormonal reasons.

如果人们增重很多,那么他们全身会均匀地增胖,但刚才讲的是比较典型的增重模式,激素是导致它们发生的原因

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When men gain weight they tend to distribute it above the waist, abdominal obesity, or what's called the apple shape.

当男性体重增加,他们的身体趋向于,把脂肪储存在腰间,也就是腹部肥胖,也就是我们所说的苹果形身材

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We think a lot about weight in this country, but weight is a remarkably carefully controlled parameter of a person, that is, you have to work pretty hard to gain weight or to lose weight.

我们身在一个特别关注体重的国家,然而体重是一个,需要小心地控制地人体指标,这就是说,你必须付出相当多的努力,才能增加或减少体重

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Now in this particular case, these animals will not overeat on the healthy balanced food and won't gain excess weight, they'll maintain a normal weight.

在这种情况下,它们并不会吃过量的健康食品,因此不会变胖,所以一直保持着标准的体重

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Each of you probably know, some of you may be in this category yourself, people who can eat like crazy and still not gain weight.

你们每个人可能都知道,你们中有些人是那种,怎么吃都不会发胖的人

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You eat, and eat, and eat and those people don't gain weight.

那些人大吃特吃 却不发胖

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In that process there is a metabolic engine at work, and some people have an efficient engine so that the calories in get banked in the fat, other people have an inefficient engine, that is the calories get wasted as body heat and things like that, and they tend not to gain weight.

这过程中人体内有个工作着的代谢引擎,有些人的代谢引擎效率很高,热量便转化为脂肪储存起来,另一些人的效率低下,能量就以体温等形式被浪费了,因此他们就不容易发胖

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Let me ask another question, if you give this-- and we'll talk about this in a later lecture, but if you give this diet to laboratory animal-- rats, mice, whatever-- it's very common for animals to gain a good bit of weight when given access to this diet.

我们来看另一个问题,如果你给,我们将在以后的课上讨论这个话题,但如果你给实验室动物,像小白鼠之类的,给予某种类型的饮食,这种饮食习惯会使得体重增加

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