Improve your vocabulary – Global Obesity

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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.

 

Vocabulary and definitions

exercise

ˈeksəsaɪz

activity, physical movement

consequence

 

ˈkɒnsɪkwəns

the effect

reveal

rɪˈviːl

to make something known to somebody

obesity

 

əʊˈbiːsəti

fatness, having too much body weight

suffer

 

ˈsʌfə(r)

experience, endure something negative

blood sugar levels

 

blʌd ˈʃʊɡə(r) ˈlevl

the amount or concentration of glucose in the blood

diabetic

 

ˌdaɪəˈbetɪk

to suffer from diabetes – a disease where the body produces too much sugar in the blood

mortality rates

 

mɔːˈtæləti

deaths in an area relating to the population number

vaccination

 

ˌvæksɪˈneɪʃn

medicine to protect against diseases

measles

ˈmiːzlz

an infectious disease, especially of children, that causes fever and small red spots that cover the whole body

risk factor

 

rɪsk  ˈfæktə(r)

behaviour that increases the likelihood of something

set target

 

set ˈtɑːɡɪt

establish goal

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Vocabulary and definitions

exercise

ˈeksəsaɪz

activity, physical movement

the consequence

 

ˈkɒnsɪkwəns

the effect

reveal

rɪˈviːl

to make something known to somebody

obesity

 

əʊˈbiːsəti

fatness, having too much body weight

suffer

 

ˈsʌfə(r)

experience, endure something negative

blood sugar levels

 

blʌd ˈʃʊɡə(r) ˈlevl

the amount or concentration of glucose in the blood

diabetic

 

ˌdaɪəˈbetɪk

to suffer from diabetes – a disease where the body produces too much sugar in the blood

mortality rates

 

mɔːˈtæləti

deaths in an area relating to the population number

vaccination

 

ˌvæksɪˈneɪʃn

medicine to protect against diseases

measles

ˈmiːzlz

an infectious disease, especially of children, that causes fever and small red spots that cover the whole body

risk factor

 

rɪsk  ˈfæktə(r)

behaviour that increases the likelihood of something

set target

 

set ˈtɑːɡɪt

establish goal

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