Diabetes
Vocabulary Preview
- generation (noun) - all people of about the same age: My grandmother's generation likes the music of Om Kalthum.
- couch potato (informal noun) - someone who spends a lot of time sitting and watching television: My brother, who watches TV six hours a day, is a couch potato.
- obesity (noun) - the condition of being too fat in a way that is unhealthy: Faisal's eating 15 times a day led to his obesity. Faisal is obese.
- overweight (adjective) - someone who is overweight is too heavy and fat: Hessa was 20 kilos overweight.
- prematurely (adverb) and premature (adjective) - happening before the natural or proper time: His premature death at the age of 32 is a great loss.
- trend (noun) - a general tendency in the way a situation is changing or developing: The current trend is for Kuwaiti women to work after they are married.
Listening Clues
In this talk, the most important cause of type 2 diabetes in children will be explained. Also, it will discuss this cause's effect on children later when they are adults. Now, let's listen to the talk. Afterwards, answer the questions below to see how well you understood the talk.
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1. There are 20 million obese children in Britain.
a. True
b. False
2. Type 2 diabetes never affects adults.
a. True
b. False
3. Insulin is produced in ___.
a. the pancreas
b. the spleen
c. the hormone
4. What causes diabetes?
a. an effect of insulin
b. a recurrence of insulin
c. a deficiency of insulin
5. Insulin controls the amount of ___ in our blood?
a. glucose
b. hormones
c. obesity
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