一詞日曆：注意：晚上開燈睡的人更容易胖，特別是女人

2019.07.06

週六 Saturday

overweight
 [ˌəʊvə'weɪt] 
adj.超重的

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Keeping a lot of light on while you snooze — such as from a television or bright nightlight — has been linked with an increased risk of weight gain and obesity.

睡覺時開着大量的燈——比如看電視或開着明亮的夜燈——會增加體重增加和肥胖的風險。

Specifically, sleeping with a television or light on in the room was positively associated with gaining five kilograms, or 11 pounds, over a five-year period among women in a new study published in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday.

週一，醫學雜誌《美國醫學會內科雜誌》(JAMA Internal Medicine)上發表的一項新研究表明，在5年的時間裏，在房間裏看電視或開燈睡覺與女性增重5公斤(合11磅)呈正相關。

“There was a 17% chance of gaining the five kilograms — after we adjusted for confounding factors,” said Dale Sandler, a senior investigator at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina and senior author of the study.

北卡羅萊納國家環境健康科學研究所的高級研究員、該研究的資深作者戴爾·桑德勒說:“在我們對混雜因素進行調整後，增加5公斤體重的機率爲17%。”

In addition, there was a 22% chance of becoming overweight and a 33% chance of becoming obese, she added.

她補充：“此外，有22%的機率超重，有33%的機率會肥胖。”

Obesity means having too much body fat and overweight means weighing too much, according to the US National Library of Medicine. Both overweight and obesity are based on your body mass index but “obese” generally means having a much higher BMI.

美國國家醫學圖書館稱，肥胖意味着身體脂肪過多，超重意味着體重過重。超重和肥胖都是基於你的體重指數，但“肥胖”通常意味着有一個更高的BMI。

“We are in the middle of an obesity epidemic in the United States and the things that we usually think about for obesity prevention are hard for people to do — eat a better diet, get more exercise — and we don’t seem to be making a dent,” Sandler said. “If these study findings are true and if they can be replicated then it’s a very easy public health message to turn off the lights when you’re sleeping.”

桑德勒說:“我們正處在美國肥胖流行的風口上，而我們通常認爲的預防肥胖的措施對人們來說很難做到——吃更好的飲食，多做運動——而我們似乎並沒有取得任何進展。”“如果這些研究結果是正確的，如果它們可以被複制，那麼在你睡覺的時候關燈是一個非常簡單的公共健康信息。”

over+weight，這個詞的構成......這個詞讓我只想“紅着臉躲避”。

The man was homely and overweight.  

該男子其貌不揚，身材肥胖。

坐飛機時也得注意下不讓行李超重，因爲：

If your luggage is overweight, you'll have to pay extra.  

假如你的行李過重了, 你得付額外的運費.