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A new study adds to evidence that obesity is becoming more common in young children in America.

一项新的研究进一步证明肥胖在美国幼儿中变得越来越普遍。 

The study appeared in the medical publication Pediatrics. 

该研究发表在医学出版物《儿科》上。 

The findings are similar to other national data, which suggests around 2.5 percent of all preschool-aged children were severely obese during the same period. 

研究结果与其他国家数据类似，表明同期所有学龄前儿童中约有 2.5% 患有严重肥胖。 

One of the study’s writers, Heidi Blanck of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said “We were doing well and now we see this upward trend....We are dismayed at seeing these findings.” 

该研究的作者之一、美国疾病控制与预防中心的海蒂·布兰克 (Heidi Blanck) 表示：“我们做得很好，现在我们看到了这种上升趋势……我们对这些发现感到沮丧。” 

Dismayed is a term that means very worried or disappointed. 

沮丧这个词的意思是非常担心或失望。 

The study looked at children ages 2 to 4 who took part in the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. The program gives healthy foods and other services to preschool-aged children in low-income families. The children were weighed and measured. 

该研究以参加妇女、婴儿和儿童 (WIC) 计划的 2 至 4 岁儿童为对象。 该计划为低收入家庭的学龄前儿童提供健康食品和其他服务。 对孩子们进行了称重和测量。 

The researchers found that 2.1 percent of kids in the program were severely obese in 2010. Six years later, the rate had dropped to 1.8 percent. But by 2020, it was 2 percent. That amounts to about 33,000 of more than 1.6 million kids in the WIC program. 

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