新奇事件簿 說英語的國家肥胖問題最嚴(yán)重

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Six of the seven countries with the highest obesity rates are English-speaking nations. This is according to a new report from the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development). The country at the top of the list is the USA. This is followed by Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland. The OECD looked at 33 different countries. The other 26 countries were non-English speaking. The ten slimmest countries included Japan, Korea, Italy, Switzerland and Sweden. Health experts are now wondering why English-speaking countries top the world’s obesity league. One theory is that they are all copying an American lifestyle; people eat a lot of fast food and a lot of it is in sizes considerably larger than those found in the rest of the world.

七個(gè)肥胖率最高的國家中有六個(gè)是說英語的國家。這是經(jīng)濟(jì)合作與發(fā)展組織OECD最新一份報(bào)告的結(jié)果。位于名單首位的是美國，隨后是墨西哥，新西蘭，澳大利亞，聯(lián)合王國，加拿大和愛爾蘭。OECD調(diào)查了33個(gè)不同的國家。另外26個(gè)國家是不講英語的。十個(gè)最苗條的國家包括日本，韓國，意大利，瑞士和瑞典。衛(wèi)生專家正在考慮為何說英語的國家是世界上肥胖率最高的國家。一個(gè)理論是，他們都仿照美國的生活方式。人們吃很多快餐，許多快餐的分量比世界上其他國家大得多。

The OECD report contains some interesting statistics. Australia has the fastest growing obesity rates. They are expected to rise by another 15 per cent over the next decade. This compares to an increase of five per cent in South Korea. Education makes a big difference to weight in America and Sweden. Poorly educated women are 30 per cent more likely to be overweight than those who had a good education. Swedish women with poor educations are more than twice as overweight as educated women. In the USA and UK, children are particularly overweight. Around 30 per cent of British kids are overweight, compared with 40 per cent for their American counterparts. In Sweden, one person in ten is obese, although more than half of adult men and a third of adult women are overweight there.

OECD報(bào)告包含一些有趣的統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)。澳大利亞的肥胖增長率最快。未來十年預(yù)期還會(huì)增加15%。而韓國的增長率為5%。在美國和瑞典，教育程度也對(duì)肥胖有影響。教育程度差的女性比受過良好教育的女性肥胖的可能性高30%。受教育程度差的瑞典女性超重的可能性是教育良好的女性的兩倍。在美國和英國，兒童肥胖非常明顯。大約30%的英國兒童超重，40%的美國兒童肥胖。在瑞典，十分之一的人肥胖，然而超過一半的成年男性和三分之一的成年女性超重。