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Overfat and Underfat: New Terms and Definitions Long Overdue

机译：胖子和胖子：早就应该有新术语和定义

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For the first time in human history, the number of obese people worldwide now exceeds those who are underweight. However, it is possible that there is an even more serious problem—an overfat pandemic comprised of people who exhibit metabolic health impairments associated with excess fat mass relative to lean body mass. Many overfat individuals, however, are not necessarily classified clinically as overweight or obese, despite the common use of body mass index as the clinical classifier of obesity and overweight. The well-documented obesity epidemic may merely be the tip of the overfat iceberg. The counterpart to the overfat condition is the underfat state, also a common and dangerous health circumstance associated with chronic illness and starvation. Currently (and paradoxically), high rates of obesity and overweight development coexist with undernutrition in developing countries. Studies in cognitive linguistics suggest that accurate, useful, and unintimidating terminology regarding abnormal body fat conditions could help increase a person’s awareness of their situation, helping the process of implementing prevention and simple remedies. Our contention is that promoting the terms “overfat” and “underfat” to describe body composition states to the point where they enter into common usage may help in creating substantive improvements in world health.
机译：人类历史上的肥胖人数首次超过体重不足的人。但是，可能存在一个甚至更严重的问题-肥胖大流行，这种大流行包括与脂肪相对于瘦体重相关的代谢健康受损的人。然而，尽管普遍使用体重指数作为肥胖和超重的临床分类指标，但许多超脂个体并不一定在临床上被归类为超重或肥胖。有据可查的肥胖流行病可能只是冰山一角。与高脂状态相对应的是低脂状态，这也是与慢性疾病和饥饿相关的常见和危险的健康情况。当前（和自相矛盾的），在发展中国家，高肥胖率和超重发展与营养不足并存。认知语言学研究表明，有关异常体脂状况的准确，有用且毫不费力的术语可能有助于提高人们对其处境的认识，有助于实施预防措施和简单的补救措施。我们的论点是，推广用“高脂”和“低脂”来形容人体组成状态以达到人们普遍使用的程度，可能有助于在世界卫生上带来实质性的改善。

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