双语趣味：基因决定你是否大肚腩(图)

　　Beer lovers around the world raise your glasses--it might not only be how much you drink that determines the size of your beer belly, it could be your genes.

　　全世界的啤酒爱好者可以举杯庆祝了：你的啤酒肚尺寸不光取决于你喝了多少，这其中可能还有基因的作用。

　　A team of Italian scientists has linked a gene, known as DD and present in about 40 percent of the population, to abdominal weight gain in men.

　　In a study published in the medical journal, Annals of Internal medicine, researchers monitored some 300 male factory workers over a 20-year period and found that DD carriers put on 50 percent more weight--an average 9.9 pounds against 6.6 pounds for non-carriers. "some people, despite their sacrifice of looking at calories and trying to exercise as much as they can, tend to put on fat because they are genetically susceptible," research leader Pasquale Strazzullo, from the Federico II University of Naples Medical School, told reporters.

　　研究者们对大约300名男性工人进行了为期20年的监测，发现DD携带者增加的体重比非携带者多出了50%——平均9.9磅对6.6磅。他们的研究结果发表在医学杂志《国际医学年报》上。研究主持者、那不勒斯费德里哥二世大学医学院的帕斯夸里·斯特拉祖罗对记者说：“有些人时刻关注着卡路里，尽可能多地进行锻炼，这样的代价也不能阻止体重增加，因为基因决定了他们容易长胖。”

　　The first set of figures collected in 1987 did not include waist measurements, so in the 1996-97 data gathering Strazzullo took this measurement and widened his sample to about a thousand workers to calculate more accurately just how much bellies had ballooned.

　　研究者们在1987年采集了第一批数据中没有腰围的数字，因为斯特拉祖罗在1996至97年间的数据采集过程中加上了这一指标，并把样本数量扩大为1000名工人，目的是更精确地计量人们腰腹膨胀的过程。

　　He found the waist of a DD carrier grew by an average of nearly one inch over 10 years, compared to just under 0.3 inches for those men without the gene.

　　他发现，DD携带者的腰围在10年里平均增长了将近1英寸，而非携带者的腰围则只增长了不到0.3英寸。

　　The team also found around 52 percent of the DD men were overweight compared to almost 44 percent of non-carriers.

　　研究小组还发现，携带DD的男性中有大约52%超重，而在非携带者中这一比例是将近44%。

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