調查:肥胖青少年更易沾染惡習
Obese teens tend to be socially outcast, and so researchers had long assumed they were less likely to engage in the kinds of risky social behaviors that mark traditional adolescence: drinking, smoking and hooking up. But a new survey finds that in fact obese teens are just as likely to participate in these rites of teenhood as their thinner peers.
肥胖青少年常被社會排斥，研究人員也曾以爲他們不像一般青少年那樣，有較多冒險性質的社交行爲，比如喝酒、吸菸、發生性關係。但最新調查發現，事實上，肥胖青少年與他們的苗條同伴一樣，參加此類活動的次數並不少。
In some ways, obese teens' behavior is even riskier. The study found that obese teenagers drank alcohol about as often as normal-weight classmates, but they were more likely to smoke cigarettes. And while obese teen girls were less likely to have sex than thin girls, those who were sexually active were more likely to use drugs or alcohol before sex.
在某些方面，肥胖青少年的行爲更加冒險。研究發現，他們和體重正常的同學喝酒頻率不相上下，但是他們吸菸更多。儘管肥胖女孩子發生性關係的可能性要比苗條女孩子小，卻不乏有積極活躍者在性交前吸食毒品或者飲酒。
The survey included responses from 9,000 high school students. Among the students, 410 were extremely obese, and the rest were considered healthy weight.
該調查報告囊括了9000名高中生的反饋。其中410名爲極度肥胖，剩下的則擁有健康體重。
"Obese adolescents are already at greater risk for the development of additional chronic health conditions, the likes of which may be exacerbated by cigarette smoking, resulting in compound health risk," wrote the researchers.
“肥胖青少年已經成爲慢性健康疾病的高發人羣，吸菸可加重類似疾病，從而導致複合健康問題，”研究人員寫道。
