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While an economic crisis results in untold misery for countries and their people, a new study of health in Cuba has suggested there could be a silver lining during lean times. 尽管经济危机会给许多国家及其人民造成难以名状的苦难，但是古巴的一项新健康研究指出，经济困难时期的黑暗也有一线光明。 Researchers appear to have implied that people can lose weight during a recession due to a reduction in eating and increasing physical activity. 研究人员暗示说，由于摄入食物的减少和体力活动的增多，人们在经济萧条时期体重会下降。 Their dramatic findings, published online in the British Medical Journal, were based on a study in Cuba, where the population suffered food and fuel shortages following the economic crisis of the early 1990s triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union. 这一发表在《英国医学杂志》网刊上的引人注目的发现基于古巴的一项研究。20世纪90年代早期古巴在苏联解体后陷入经济危机，古巴民众因此遭受食品和燃料的短缺。 This resulted in an average of 4 to 5kg (8 to 11 lbs) being shed by the people and subsequent rapid declines in deaths from diabetes and coronary heart disease. 这导致古巴人的平均体重下降了4到5千克（8到11磅），古巴因糖尿病和冠心病而导致的死亡人数随后也迅速下降。 | 
