Obesity is rapidly becoming a new scourge of the western world, delegates agreed at the 11th European Conference on the issue in Vienna Wednesday to Saturday. According to statements before the opening of the conference — of 2,000 specialists from more than 50 countries — 1.2 billion people worldwide are overweight, and 250 million are obese. Professor Bernhard Ludvik of Vienna General Hospital said, "Obesity is a chronic illness. In Germany, 20 percent of the people are already affected, but in Japan only one percent. " But he said that there was hope for sufferers thanks to the new scientific discoveries and medication. Professor Friedrich Hopichler of Salzberg said, "We are living in the new age (but) with the metabolism of a stone-age man." "I have just been to the United States. It is really terrible. A pizza shop is springing up on every comer. We have been overrun by fast food and Coca-Cola-ization. " Many of the experts stressed that obesity was a potential killer. Hopichler said, "Eighty percent of all diabetics are obese, also fifty percent of all patients with high blood pressure and fifty percent with adipose tissue complaints. " "Ten percent more weight means thirteen percent more risk of heart disease. Reducing one's weight by ten percent leads to thirteen percent lower blood pressure. " Another expert Hermann Toplak said that the state health services should improve their financing of preventive programs. "Though the health insurance pays for surgery (such as reducing the size of the stomach) when the body-mass index is more than 40. That is equivalent to a weight of 116 kilograms for a height of 1.70 meters. One should start earlier. " Ludvik said that prevention should begin in school. "Child obesity (fat deposits) correlates with the time which children spend in front of TV sets. " The consequences were only apparent later on. No more than fifteen per cent of obese people lived to the average life expectancy for their population group.
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It is estimated that there are ______ people suffering from obesity in the world. A. 250,000,000 B. 1,200,000,000 C. 1,450,000,000 D. 950,000,000
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It seems that the ______ people are least affected by obesity among the developed countries and areas mentioned in the passage. A. European B. German C. American D. Japanese
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What is the correlation between body weight and heart disease and blood pressure? A. Ten percent less body weight means ten per cent less risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. B. Thirteen percent more body weight means ten percent more risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. C. The more body weight one gains, the more risk of heart disease and high blood pressure he has. D. The less body weight one gains, the more risk of heart disease and the less risk of high blood pressure he has.
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From the last paragraph we may infer that one of the effective measures suggested by Ludnik to prevent children from being obese would be ______. A. not to permit them to watch TV at all B. to tell them to spend less time watching TV C. to turn off TV when they are in front of TV sets D. to calculate accurately the time that a child spends watching TV