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.