Question

1. Overweight and obesity are affecting many countries in the world: More than 300 million people are overweight or obese. In India, some people tend to be overweight because of their high calorie diet and lack of physical activities. In the United States, obesity is more prevalent in lower economic groups. Obesity is now well recognized as a disease in its own right. Though obesity commonly means overweight, it is defined as an excess amount of body weight that includes muscles, bone, fat and water. "Obesity" especially refers to an excess amount of body fat. Some people, such as body builders or other athletes with a lot of muscle, can be overweight without being obese.

2. Woman have more body fat than men. Usually men with more than 25 per cent body fat and women more than 30 per cent body fat are regarded as obese. Obesity occurs when a person consumes more calories than he or she burns.

3. Obesity tends to run in families, suggesting a genetic cause. Environmental factors mean lifestyle behaviours such as what a person eats and his or her level of physical activity.
Although you cannot change your genetic makeup, you can change your eating habits and levels of activity. You can learn how to choose more nutritional meals which are low in fat and become more active.

Then there are the physical factors. Negative emotions such as boredom, sadness, anger respond to people who overeat. There is also "binge eating" when people eat large amount of food thinking that they cannot control how much they are eating. Those with the most severe binge eating problems are also likely to have symptoms of depression and low self-esteem.

4. Obesity is a health hazard. Several serious medical conditions have been linked to obesity, including type-2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke. Obesity is linked to higher rates of certain types of cancer. Other diseases and health problems linked to obesity include gall bladder disease and gallstones, liver disease and deterioration of joints.

5. The benefits of exercise are much more than any other way of losing weight. Not only does exercise help you lose weight but it also improves your fitness and flexibility and improves skin texture. Exercises also free one from the harmful side effects of crash dieting, slimming capsules and the heat treatment used by slimming centres.

1.1 On the basis of your reading of above text, answer the following questions in your answer sheet: (6 marks)

a) What is obesity?
b) When can women be described as being obese?
c) What are the environmental factors which cause obesity?
d) What are the consequences of binge eating?
e) Mention any four diseases linked to obesity.
f) What are the benefits of exercise?
1.2 Find words in the passage which mean the same as the following. Write your answers in the answer sheet against the correct blank numbers: (2 marks)

a) eats/uses ( para 2)
b) signs ( para 4)​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) excess amount of body fat

b) when they have more than 30 percent of body

fat

c) lifestyle behaviour such as what a person eats or his level of physical activity

d) symptoms of depression and low self esteem

e) type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, high blood

f) improves ur fitness and flexibility and improves skin texture

a)consumes

b)may be linked

Answer 2

Answer:

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Explanation:

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