Vocabulary

• one in eight: A proportion equal to one part out of a total of eight parts.
• work out
• majority: Amount that is more than half of a group
• physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
• diabetes: Illness where there is too much sugar in the blood
• obesity: State of being so fat it can harm your health
• urge: A strong desire for something
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• obese: Fat over a long period, so harming your health
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• nutrition: Scientific study of the effects of foods on health
• sink: To push something down into the ground
• diet: To eat special or less food, as to lose weight
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• solution: Mix of a liquid and a solid or a gas
• activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
• organization: Group of people with a particular purpose
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• index: Number showing how prices, wages changed over time
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• length: Distance from one end of a pool to the other
• restrict: To prevent a person from doing something
• person: Man, woman or child
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• part: Division of a book
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• healthy: In good condition physically, or financially; well
• link: Any one of the rings that are part of a chain
• weight: How heavy something is
• childhood: The time when you are a child
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• heart: A feeling of care for others; compassion
• cancer: Any growth caused by abnormal cell division
• live: To be alive
• calculate: To find an answer using mathematics
• datum: Item of factual information
• overweight: Weighing more than a normal or allowed amount