It seems an apple a day really does keep the doctor away, and also keep your heart, gut and even your waistline in good shape.

看来一天吃一个苹果真能远离医生，还能让心脏、内脏、甚至围保持良好状态。

Yet girth-management is big business, full of charismatic hucksters and fake science (fat-burning lip balm? ), earning $40 billion a year in America alone.

然而，围管理仍然是一件大事，这里充满着有推销能力商家和伪科学（燃烧脂肪唇膏？），每年就仅仅在美国就可以挣得400亿美元。

Melanie, eating lots of jelly donuts makes your waistline grow.

梅拉妮 吃许多果冻甜甜圈会让围变大。

For example, a study published in the journal Obesity in 2014 followed almost three thousand older English adults from 2008 to 2013. Researchers measured their waist circumference and weight at the beginning and end of the study.

例如，2014年发表在肥胖期刊上一项研究中，2008年到2013年跟踪了近3000名英国老年人。研究人员在研究开始和结束时测量了他们围和体。

Although boy's waistlines have also expanded, they have not grown to the same extent, rising to 27.6in compared to 24.2in during 1978.

尽管男孩围同样在加粗，但是程度不同，他们从1978年24.2英寸上升到27.6英寸。

Because I was as wide across as I was high.

因为围已经与身高同宽了。

And it's still me, but I confess am a waistline larger from way back.

还是，但不得不承认，围比以前大了。

If you have narrow hips and an undefined waist, you have a rectangle body shape.

如果臀部较窄，围不明显，那么就是矩形身材。

I need to take in the waist of my pants a few inches.

要把裤子围给缩一缩。

Eating a half cup of walnuts daily has been shown to help lower blood pressure, improve blood flow and even shrink your waist.

研究显示，每天吃半杯量核桃有助于降低血压，改善血压流动，甚至围也会变小。

More than 35 inches puts a woman at increased risk.

围超过 35 英寸会增加女性风险。

As portion sizes at many restaurants grow larger, so do our waistlines.

随着许多餐馆分量增加，们围也随着变粗了。

Yeah, well, I had a 24-inch waist. You lose things.

以前还有二尺二围呢 人生总会失去一些东西。

But the study made sure to look at all the brands with the same size jeans — a 32-inch waist — to show consistency in making the pockets smaller for someone arguably the same size just because of the gender differences.

但研究人员选取都是同样围（32英寸）牛仔裤，在男性和女性身材相同情况下，女性牛仔裤口袋还是会更小，仅仅是因为性别不同。

After three months, those eating the jumbo breakfasts lost an average of 17.8 pounds and three inches from their waistlines — 10 pounds and an inch-and-a-half more than the group having skimpy breakfasts and big dinners.

三个月后，早餐多吃人平均减掉了17.8磅，围缩小了3英寸，比早餐少吃晚餐多吃人多减了10磅，围多减1.5英寸。

Some social media users claimed an array of health benefits originating from their visits to the Flaming Mountain such as clearing of their acne, reduced blackheads, alleviated menstrual pain, and even a slimmer waistline.

一些社交媒体用户声称，他们去火焰山后获得了多种健康益处，比如痘痘消失、黑头减少、月经痛缓解，甚至围变细。

Metabolic syndrome exists when you have at least three risk factors, including excess stomach fat contributing to an enlarged waist size, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, high fasting blood sugar or a low high-density lipoprotein level.

当身体传递至少有三个危险信号时，就存在代谢综合征，包括导致围增大过多胃脂肪、高甘油三酯、高血压、高空腹血糖或低高密度脂蛋白水平。

But if you're not overeating, then having a higher proportion of your dietary intake as fat isn't going to make much of a difference to your waistline.

不过如果没有暴食，即使高脂食物在饮食中占更高比例，也不会让围有太大变化。

One of these little infants, that from certain queer tokens seemed hardly a day old, might have measured some fourteen feet in length, and some six feet in girth.

其中一个小婴儿，从某些古怪迹象上看，似乎刚刚出生一天，体长大概已有十四英尺长，围六英尺左右。

Results of analyses of waist circumferences, BMI, body fat, body lean mass, blood pressure, and metabolic risk factors were also consistent with the findings, according to the study.

根据这项研究，围、体指数、体脂、体瘦量、血压和代谢危险因素分析结果也与研究结果一致。