2. Are the statements true or false? Correct the false ones.

- Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury (mmHg).

- Snoring decreases the risk of developing diabetes and heart disease.

- Professionals define "overweight" as an excess amount of body weight that includes muscle, bone, fat, and water.

-Diastolic pressure is the higher number.

-The end result is a noisy snore that can disrupt the sleep of your bed partner.

- If you have high blood pressure you are at greater risk of having a heart at­tack, stroke, kidney failure and blindness.

-If your blood pressure is high, your doctor should examine your eyes, heart and nervous system to look for brain damage.

3. Explain each item in the context of the text.

- Blood pressure.

^- Diastolic pressure.

-Snoring.

- Obesity.

- Systolic pressure.

-BMI.

4. Comment the English proverbs:

- Good health is above wealth.

- A sound mind in a sound body.

- He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

-The best of healers is good cheer. (Pindar)

- Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing, and so, it seems, is per feet disease. (Peter Latham)

14. Healthy Way of Life. Vitamins.

Здоровий спосіб життя. Вітаміни.

I. Active Vocabulary

ache/pain — біль;

cold— простуда;

flu— грип;

to catch a cold/to chill— застудитись;

to have a sore throat — відчувати біль в горлі;

to shiver — тремтіти;

to gargle — полоскати горло;

to sneeze — чхати;

chicken-pox— вітрянка.

tostrengthen health — зміцнювати здоров'я;

to have a cough — кашляти;

to lose one's appetite — втрачати апетит;

to listen to heart, lungs, chest— слухати серце, легені, грудну клітку;

to keep/stay in bed — дотримуватись постільного режиму;

sick-list — список хворих, медична довідка;

to diagnose — ставити діагноз.

II. Work with Text

1. Match definitions with words.

Ache Chill To shiver To strengthen To diagnose

a feeling of being cold to become stronger; to make somebody/ something stronger to say exactly what illness or the cause of a problem is to shake slightly because you are cold a continuous feeling of pain in a part of the body

2. Replace the italicized parts of the sentences with equivalents from the text.

1. A general word for a disease is "illness".

2. She feels severe pain in her knee.

3. We must keep in bed when we have a flu.

4. She feels cold.

5. My groupmate had a high temperature yesterday.

6. She has a stomachache.

3. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian.

1. Vitamin A deficiency is estimated to affect approximately one third of children under the ag of five around the world.

2. Vitamin С is found in high concentrations in immune cells, and is consumed quickly during infections.

3. In modern Western societies, scurvy is rarely present in adults, although infants and elderly people may be affected.

4. A multivitamin is a preparation intended to supplement a human diet with vitamins, dietary minerals and other nutritional elements.

5. Wheat germ oil contains the four fatty acids which have been reported to lower plasma cholesterol in humans.

6. In their natural form whole-grain cereals are a rich source of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats, oils, and protein.

7. Cod liver oil is widely taken to ease the pain and joint stiffness associated with arthritis, and has also been clinically proven to have a positive effect on the heart, bones, skin, hair, and nails.

8. Soft cod liver can be tinned (canned) and eaten. It is an important source of vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E and omega-3 fatty acids.

9. Children and adults both require folic acid to produce healthy n il blood cells and prevent anaemia.

10. Rickets is among the most frequent childhood diseases in mam developing countries. The predominant cause is a vitamin D dell ciency, but lack of adequate calcium in the diet may also lead 1 to rickets.