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If you should weigh 12 stone and in fact weigh 16,
若合理體重是12英石 但你卻有16
then your chances of death from a heart attack are 50% more.
那你死于心臟病的幾率會增加50%
With overweight goes high blood pressure,
超重還會導致高血壓
and that makes the heart work harder,
使得心臟難以負荷
and high fats in the blood itself,
而血液中脂肪含量過高
which makes it clot and cause thrombosis.
會導致血液凝結 形成血栓
But it's not only how much we eat, but what we eat.
除了關注吃多少 吃什么也很重要
With the can and packet revolution
隨著罐頭和獨立包裝的廣泛運用
has come an outstanding change in our fats.
我們攝入的脂肪發生了質的改變
What's important are the
問題的關鍵就是
proportions of unsaturated and saturated fats.
飽和與不飽和脂肪間的比例
These farm animals are different from those of 50 years ago.
這些家畜和50年前早已大相徑庭
Beef not only contains much more fat,
牛肉里脂肪含量大大增加
but it's the saturated kind.
而其屬于飽和脂肪
These huge quantities of hard
大量此類脂肪酸酯
fat are causing the epidemic of coronary disease.
使冠心病盛行開來
It would be another 20 years
我們至少還需花上20年
before the connection between heart disease
才能準確明了地得出
and the increased levels of saturated
心臟病與日常飲食中
fat in our diet could be graphically demonstrated.
不斷增長的飽和脂肪含量間的聯系
A lot of people think that obesity is a cosmetic issue,
多數人覺得肥胖不過影響外表美觀
not fitting into a dress or something like that.
頂多是穿不了漂亮的衣服云云
But it's not.It lies at the heart
其實這是一大批
of a host of medical illnesses and diseases.
醫學疾病的核心問題
This is serum from a healthy patient.
這是從一名健康的患者身上提取的血清
The blood has been spun to separate and take the red cells away.
我們將紅細胞從中分離出去
A slightly yellow colour but quite clear.
可以看到它呈淺黃色 但很清澈
This is serum from a person who is clinically obese.
這個則是臨床診斷為肥胖癥患者的血清樣本
It looks almost like milk, it's so cloudy.
看上去就像牛奶 很渾濁
And what's causing that is all the fat globules
區別源自我們體內
and the fat that is circulating in the blood around the body.
在血液中循環往復的脂肪球與脂肪
Not only does that cause a narrowing of the arteries,
這不僅會導致動脈狹窄
slowing the flow of blood and delivery of oxygen to the tissues.
還會減緩血流量 阻礙其向組織供氧
It actually causes damage and a secondary process
這將會危害健康
starts which leads to further damage to those blood vessels.
進而對血管造成更大的危害
