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Long live the fat American长命百岁 美国胖子! AMERICAS obesity epidemic is so called for areason. Roughly one in three adults is obese. In2008 close to 25m Americans were diabetic,according to a study published on June 25th.Nevertheless, Americans are living longer than ever.In 2007 the average life expectancy at birth was 78 years. This follows decades of progress.The question is whether obesity might change that. 在美国，说肥胖症流行有理有据：大约每三个成年人中就有一个是胖子。6月25日出版的一项研究结果表明，2008年，美国有近2500万糖尿病患者。然而，美国人正生活在史上最长寿的时期。2007年，初生婴儿平均预期寿命为78岁，这种进步已经持续数十年。如今的问题是肥胖症也许会改变这种进步的趋势。 National progress in life expectancy masks wide local disparities, according to a study publishedon June 15th and written by researchers at the University of Washington and Imperial CollegeLondon. Men in Holmes County, Mississippi, for example, have a life expectancy of 65.9 years,the same as men in Pakistan and 15.2 years behind men in Fairfax, Virginia. Gaps betweenAmericas counties have widened since the early 1980s. Most alarming, 702 counties, or 30% ofthose studied, saw a statistically significant decline in life expectancy for women from 2000 to2007; 251 counties saw a statistically significant decline for men. | 
