b. A Fatter World, Yet Fewer Cases of High Blood Pressure

i.      Answer the following questions in your blog –

1.      How many countries did the study include?

199 countries and territories did the study include

2.      What did the study find?

 The study found that obesity has almost doubled since 1980.

3.      Obesity, high blood pressure, and cholesterol are now ___ worldwide problems___.

4.      What was the percentage of women that were obese in 2008.

 By two thousand eight, the rate of obesity among women was almost fourteen percent.

5.      How is obesity measured?

Obesity is commonly measured by body mass index, or BMI

6.      What is BMI? 

      A person with a BMI of ___25____to ___29____is considered overweight.

8.      The World Health Organization defines obesity as a body mass index of ___30___or more.

9.      Which nations have the highest BMI in the world? Which country has the single highest average?

Pacific island nations have an average BMI of around 35 -- the highest in the world. But the study found that the United States had the single highest average among wealthy countries. Men and women had an average BMI of over 28. New Zealand was next. Japan had the lowest, at about 22 for women and 24 for men.

10.  What was the “good news” in the report?

The percentage of people with this major cause of heart attacks and strokes has fallen since 1980.

Why Doctors May Not Always Try to Save a Fingertip

a.why Doctors May Not May not always try to save a fingertip.

Which injuries should always be treated by a doctor?

 But if the injury is more serious, then you could suffer permanent damage unless you get help. 

 What do you think “it’s a different ballgame” means?

When deep structures are involved

What are signs of a deep cut?

Dr. Brown says there are different medical products that can help stop the bleeding. One

example is Gelfoam.

What is Gelfoam?

Gelfoam is a cellulose product that promotes the clotting of blood by giving blood sort of a matrix

upon which to clot.

What should you do if your fingertip is cut off?

But Dr. Brown says fingertips are not often reattached if they are the length of a fingernail or

shorter.

Dr. Brown says fingertips are not often ___reattached________if they are the length of a

fingernail or shorter.

 How is a fingertip reattached?

A reattachment operation can take many hours.

What does a patient have to do to regain use of their finger?

Dr. Brown says patients must also be willing to undergo a rehabilitation process to regain use

of the finger.

 

 

My Holiday

We finished exams. I went to my home Kütahya. I missed my parents. My trip took six hours. A day tiring then I visited my grandmother Eskişehir. Eskişehir is very cold and crowded city. I met old-school friends.

After a few days my grandmother ill. My grandmother is seventy years old. We went to emergency hospital. My grandmother had kidney enfection and goiter. She had goither surgery. She stay at hospital 2-3 days. I met new nurse friends. I talk about my grandmother.She very shy so I was nervous.

Then I went to my home. The weather is very cold and snowly so I didn't another city. We mad big snowman with neighbors. We had funny hours then we dranks tea and coffee. I spend a lot of time with my parents. I helped my mother. I knitted with my mother and grandmother. We were knitting a blanket. I knitted a piece of a blanket,mother knitted a piece a blanket and grandmother knitted a piece blanket. Then we built and completed the blanket.The blanket a colorful and beautiful. Holiday was very short :) I had good time my home. I watched lots of movies and surf internet. I chatted my good friends every night. I put on 3 kilos durıng my vacotion so I unhappy :( I hope lose weight short time :))

 I missed my school and my firends. I went to İstanbul ..İstanbul is very beautiful city I love İstanbul. :)

weekend .. Happy New Year

I went to my friends at Christmas . We had fun there till morning. We listened to the song and danced to the bar before ,we went out later was the fireworks show. Liked it very much excited lasted the full 15 minutes. I was very happy. necklace, red roses and teddy bears have taken to me. Really very happy and hugged him, I was very happy for the new year I entered my boyfirend. anxious to spend the New Year for the first time without my family, but was more beautiful than I expected too much good. I think the new year will be really surprises me.