Vocabulary List #2

1) Obesity - the condition of being grossly fat or overweight.

• The problem of  obesity among children has gone up tremendously. 

2) accumulate - gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of.

•  Investigators have yet to accumulate enough evidence to charge Antonio with murder. 

3) mass - relating to, done by, or affecting large numbers of people or things

• The movie had a positive effect on mass amounts of people . 

4) disease - a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, esp. one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.

• Seventy-five percent of humans die from cardiovascular disease, cancer, or stroke.

5) diet - a special course of food to which one restricts oneself, either to lose weight or for medical reasons.

• A healthy diet and regular exercise are key to a good and healthy life . 

6) prevalence - the fact or condition of being prevalent; commonness

• Obesity has become very prevalent among today's youth .  

7)  stigma - a.
a mental or physical mark that is characteristic of a defect or disease: the stigmata of leprosy.
b.
a place or point on the skin that bleeds during certain mental states, as in hysteria.

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8) prevent(able) - to keep from occurring

• Most of the obesity cases are completely preventable. 

9) adolescent - growing; youthful

• Many people gain weight during the adolescent stages of their lives. 

10) cardiovascular - of, pertaining to, or affecting the heart and blood vessels.

• Obesity can eventually lead to cardiovascular problems. 

11) excessive - going beyond the usual or necessary limit

• Obese people have excess weight. 

12) mechanism - an assembly of moving parts

•  Our bodies has many functions and is a very complex mechanism. 

13) sedentary - to take little exercise; to sit or rest a great deal

• People who have office jobs are sedentary throughout the day. 

14) predispose -  to give an inclination to beforehand

•  If your genes predispose you to asthma or obesity, eradication may be unwise.

15) syndrome -  a pattern of symptoms that indicate a disorder or disease

• Her syndromes suggest that she is anorexic.