Pre-reading questions:
- Do you exercise every day?
- What activities do you do to be healthy?
Vocabulary:
- almost /AWL-mohst/
- grow /groh/
- brain /breyn/
- healthy /HEL-thee/
- activity /ak-TIV-i-tee/
[adverb] nearly
The children were abandoned for almost twenty years.
[verb] to increase in size or amount, or to become more advanced or developed
The advocacy’s volunteers began to grow in just a decade.
[noun] the organ inside the head that controls thought, memory, feelings, and activity
A baby’s brain starts to develop inside the mother’s womb
[adjective] strong and well
The goal of ou project is to provide healthy environment
[noun] the doing of something, or something that you are doing, have done, or could do
My doctor said that a physical activity could help to make my bones strong.
Experts from the University of Exeter Medical School in England proved that a healthy lifestyle can prevent people from having brain diseases. They studied almost 200,000 participants. The result found out that those who have high genetic risk and poor lifestyle grow symptoms of dementia unlike those participants who have a small genetic risk but have a healthy life. Dementia is a genetic brain disease affecting an individual’s memory. One example of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease in which old ages suffer from loss of memory. However, John Hagaa from US National Institute on Aging said that people can avoid getting such disease by having a healthy lifestyle. Genetic threat might be reduced through healthy activities such as proper diet and exercise.
True or False:
- Alzheimer’s disease is a form of dementia which destroys brain memory.
- John Haaga said that a healthy lifestyle could help people from getting brain diseases.
- Healthy activities might not reduce the genetic threats of dementia.
- High genetic risk with unhealthy lifestyle will not develop any symptoms of dementia.
- Almost 200,000 participants were examined to know if lifestyle could affect the growth of dementia.
Vocabulary Check:
Complete the sentences by using the words in the box.
| brain | healthy | activity | almost | grow |
- I need a physical _______ to lose weight.
- Drinking green tea makes me _______ and fit.
- The children have eaten _______ all the chocolates and candies.
- The enrollees of medical courses ________ over the year.
- Birds have a small______ _, but they are very smart.