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part 1
A recent study in the International Journal of Obesity analyzed this problem. In brief, a group of 40 – 60 year old women and men were studied for their weight gain during a previous 12 month period via questionnaire。最近，《國際肥胖雜誌》研究了工作與肥胖的關係。簡單來說，該研究通過問卷調查的方式對一組40-60歲之間的男女在過去的12個月裡導致體重增加的原因進行了研究。
The variables included 7 factors: job demands, job control, work fatigue, working overtime, work-related mental strain,social support, and work–home interface。引起體重增加的原因包括以下七個因素：工作要求、工作控制、工作疲勞、加班工作、工作相關的精神緊張、社會支援和工作與家庭的關係。
The results were then adjusted for age, education, marital status, physical strain and body mass index。研究也把年齡、受教育程度、婚姻情況、身體素質和體重指數等因素考慮了進去。
I’m betting you’ve already guessed the results – for who of haven’t faced this challenge of balancing work life, home life, and health priorities?我想你已經猜到結果了吧：體重增加的`人是不是極力想平衡工作、生活和健康的那些人呢?
RESULTS: In the previous 12 months, 25% of women and 19% of men reported weight gain. Work fatigue and working overtime were associated with weight gain in both sexes. Women who were dissatisfied with combining paid work and family life were more likely to have gained weight. Men with low job demands were less likely to have gained weight. All of these associations were independent of each other。研究結果：在過去的12個月裡，四分之一(25%)的女性和五分之一(19%)的男性報告稱體重有所增加。無論男女，體重增加都與工作疲勞和加班工作有關。受到工作與家庭牽絆的女性尤其容易發胖。所有的相關性都是根據個體的研究得出的結果。
The study concluded that work fatigue and working overtime are risk factors for weight gain。研究最後得出結論，工作疲勞和加班工作是導致過勞肥的危險因素。
part 2
china to maintain rapid growth
china's economy will maintain steady and rapid growth in 2006 as investment and consumption become the major drivers of growth, a government economist said in comments published on monday.
yao jingyuan, chief economist of the national bureau of statistics, said the most notable point for china's economic growth in 2006 was the remarkable role of consumption as a key economic driver, official china securities journal said.
at a forum in last month the economist had predicted that china's gross domestic product growth was likely to slow to between 8 percent and 9 percent. it has been consistently faster than 9 percent for the past two years, and the latest revisions suggest it has been exceeding 10 percent.
"china's economic growth should shift its reliance on investment and export to investment and consumption," yao said, adding domestic and foreign demand should work together to push forward the economy.
he also said that household consumption should be the dominant factor for domestic consumption and suggested that the main measures to expand consumption should be to increase people's incomes and to raise the marginal consumption trends.
yao also said china's consumer price index growth in 2005 had not exceeded 1.8 percent, significantly lower than 2004's 3.9 percent.
however, another government economist suggested government and corporate consumption be the main force for consumption.
ba shusong said the government and corporate saving rates were too high while the household saving rate had been declining steadily.
"too many resources are held by the government, with the fiscal revenue growing faster than the economic output and undistributed corporate profits amounting to about 20 percent of gdp," he said.
"actually, household consumption has registered a big expansion, with more and more residents buying houses and automobiles," he was quoted as saying.
ba also said in the short term that it was hard for domestic consumption to gain a big expansion and it was necessary to keep investment at a certain level because it was difficult for the government to cut taxes and push corporations to spend more.
