10. Lesson: Fat women 'have fat daughters

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follow suit
Girls whose mothers were clinically obese and boys whose fathers had the same condition were more likely to follow suit at a young age,
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to do the same as someone else has done is to _____, pójść za czyimś przykładem, naśladować
factor pol. czynnik
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This suggests behavioural rather than genetic factors could hold the key to finding out why so many British children are obese,
track
The Early Bird Study is tracking 300 children over 12 years...,
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to record or study the behaviour or development of sb or sth over time is to ____ them,
indiscriminate
Any genetic link between obese parents and their children would be indiscriminate of gender,
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an _____ action is done without thinking about what harm it might cause, Pol. (zrobiony) bez wyboru, bez różnicy, na oślep, bezkrytyczny
gender
Any genetic link between obese parents and their children would be indiscriminate of gender,
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the fact of being male or female, płeć
assort
The clearly defined gender-assortative pattern which our research has uncovered
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to arrange into groups of the same type, to classify, to fit into a class or group, klasyfikować
turn it on its head
These findings could turn our thinking on childhood obesity dramatically on its head,
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to make people think about sth in the opposite way to the way it was originally intended is to ____, pol. odwrócić kota ogonem,
prevention
prevention of obesity in children will solve the problem in adulthood
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pol. zapobieganie
hypothesis
,Early Bird's evidence supports the opposite hypothesis - that children are becoming obese due to the influence of their same-sex parents
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pol. hipoteza
account for
"Type 2 diabetes is linked to unhealthy lifestyles, including a lack of exercise and obesity, and accounts for around nine out of 10 cases of the disease"
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to be the reason why something happens [explain], wyjaśniać, tłumaczyć, stanowić przyczynę

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