Improve your vocabulary – Global Obesity
The WHO’s report is not all bad news though: the statistics show that maternal mortality rates have fallen dramatically in the last 20 years, from over half a million in 1990 to less than 300,000 in 2010. And vaccination campaigns have significantly reduced deaths from childhood diseases such as measles.
But the global rise in deaths from heart disease, cancer and diabetes, and the rise in the conditions which lead to those deaths, is causing alarm. The WHO wants all its member states to tackle risk factors such as poor diet, and smoking, and set targets for reducing deaths.
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Vocabulary and definitions |
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exercise |
ˈeksəsaɪz |
activity, physical movement |
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consequence
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ˈkɒnsɪkwəns |
the effect |
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reveal |
rɪˈviːl |
to make something known to somebody |
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obesity
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əʊˈbiːsəti |
fatness, having too much body weight |
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suffer
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ˈsʌfə(r) |
experience, endure something negative |
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blood sugar levels
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blʌd ˈʃʊɡə(r) ˈlevl |
the amount or concentration of glucose in the blood |
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diabetic
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ˌdaɪəˈbetɪk |
to suffer from diabetes – a disease where the body produces too much sugar in the blood |
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mortality rates
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mɔːˈtæləti |
deaths in an area relating to the population number |
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vaccination
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ˌvæksɪˈneɪʃn |
medicine to protect against diseases |
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measles |
ˈmiːzlz |
an infectious disease, especially of children, that causes fever and small red spots that cover the whole body |
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risk factor
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rɪsk ˈfæktə(r) |
behaviour that increases the likelihood of something |
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set target
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set ˈtɑːɡɪt |
establish goal |
Nguồn: BBC
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