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Obesity(肥胖) Causes Global Warming.

The list of ills attributable to obesity keeps growing: Last week, obese people were accused of causing global warming.

This ______(51)comes from Sheldon Jacobson of the University of Illinois, US, and a doctoral student, Laura McLay. Their study ______(52) how much extra gasoline is needed to haul fat Americans around. The answer, they say, is a billion gallons of gas per year. ______(53)

There has been ______(54) for taxes on junk food in recent years. US economist Martin Schmidt suggests a tax on fast food ______(55)to people’s cars. "We tax cigarettes partly because of their health cost," Schmidt said. "Similarly, leading a lazy life style will end ______(56) costing taxpayers more."

US political scientist Eric Oliver said his first instinct was to laugh at these gas and fast food arguments. But such ______(57) are getting attention.

At the US Obesity Society's annual meeting, one person ______(58) obesity with car accident deaths, and another correlated obesity with suicides. No one asked whether there was really a cause-and-effect relationship. " The funny thing was that everyone took it ______(59)." Oliver said.

In a 1960s study, children were ______(60) drawings of children with disabilities and without them, and a drawing of an obese child. They were asked ______(61) they would want for a friend? The obese child was picked last.Three researchers recently repeated the study ______(62) college students. Once again, ______(63) no one, not even obese people, liked the obese person. " Obesity was stigmatized." the researchers said.

But, researchers say, getting______ (64) is not like quitting smoking. People struggle to stop smoking, and, in the end, many succeed. Obesity is different. Science has shown that they have limited personal control over their weight Genes also______ (65) a part.

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