and got very careful measures on them,

进行十分仔细的检测
so a lot of what we initially knew about diet and health,

我们对饮食与健康
smoking and health, and other things

吸烟与健康以及其他的了解
came from The Framingham Heart Study.

最初都来自于弗明汉心脏研究
We did a study using the Framingham data ourselves several --some years ago

几年前我们用弗明汉研究的数据做过研究
where we were interested in the issue of weight cycling.

我们对体重循环这个问题很感兴趣
That is, yo-yo dieting.

也就是波动很大的饮食习惯
In other words what happens to people's health

换言之在一段时期内反复增重减重
as they lose weight and then regain it repeatedly over a period time?

对人们的健康有什么影响
The Framingham Study was perfect for that

弗明汉研究数据对我们的研究很有帮助
because you had these bi-annual assessments.

除了每两年一次的评估数据
You could take weights on people measured

我们还可以得到人们很长一段时间里