6. Healthcare, Health And Sports Flashcards
To stem from
To come or derive from, often used for negative things
A lot of delinquency these days stems from the use of drugs and alcoholy
Negative effects stem from it too
Sedentary lifestyle
The lifestyle where people sits for long periods and are generally inactive
Sedentary lifestyle which these games encourage
Obesity
The medical condition of being seriously overweight
Obesity is a major cause of death among young adults
Inadequate development
Insufficient or obstructed growth of the body
Smiking can cause inadequate development of lungs and brains
Strain
Stress or overwork, physical or mental
I had to take vacations due to the strain of working such a long hours
Strain on eyesight resulting from the excessive use of screens and consoles, meaning that children may suffer symptoms of poor vision
Symptoms
Indications that medical problem is present
Impairment
To impair to hinder or damage an ability
Concerns about impairment of reflexes due to the repetitive nature of hand muscles when playing these games
Hinder
Trujdyti, kliudyti
To obstruct or delay the progress of: a snowfall hindered the mountain climbers; lack of funds that hindered research.
v.intr.
To interfere with action or progress.
Poor diet
A lifestyle diet without sufficient nutrients
Malnutrition happens due to the poor diet and lack of medical care
Poor diet of convenience food, which often accompanies this lifestyle
Malnutrition
Neprievalgis
Poor nutrition because of an insufficient or poorly balanced diet or faulty digestion or utilization of foods.
malnutrition (ˌmælnjuːˈtrɪʃən)
n
(Pathology) lack of adequate nutrition resulting from insufficient food, unbalanced diet, or defective assimilation
Convenience food
Food which is cooked in its packaging, usually in microwave
To eat large amount of convenience food
Addiction
The state of being unable to live without something
Addicted to social media and internet
To socialise
To meet with friends and other people
Interpersonal skills
The skills of dealing with people successfully
To develop interpersonal skills
To underperform
To perform below your peers or expectations
Active lifestyle
Lifestyle with proper exercise and fitness
To promote active lifestyle through exercise regimes or sport programmes which would help to detoxify the lifestyles of children affected
A regime, programme
A planned system of exercise, diet or sport
I adopted vegetarian regime for free months
To detoxify your body
To remove impurities and poisons
Fatty food
Riebus maistas
Sponsorship
Payment from a company to a sport or other activity in return for publicity
Participation
Join and rake a part in smth
Competitive
Adj for competition
This could be done by sponsorship of sports or particiiation in Competitive events such as races or matches
Ameliorating the physical effects
To ameliorate to make a problem less damaging
The effects if injury were ameliorated by extensive physiotherapy
Rmedies
Cures or answers to a problem or situation
An initiative
A new programme or idea, usually in government or business
Initiative to tackle obesity, ant-social behaviour and delinquency
Raise awareness
To make people more aware of or caring about the issue
Marathon to raise awareness of heart disease and ways to prevent it through exercise
Health warnings
Notices on cigarettes or alcohol packaging warning about the medical effects
Almost all countries have warnings on tobacco these days
Health warnings on games packaging or through hight profile spokesperson spreading such a message
Champions
Highly successful people in sport or business
Rodger Federer is a champion tenis player and a good role model too.
Figureheads
People who represent part of society, officially or unofficially
Adele is a figurehead for many young woman these days
For example, if sports champions and figureheads speak out about these dangers, the message may well get through to children
Dependency
The condition on relying on smth in an addictive way
Treated for drug dependency at a detox clinic
Pursuits
Hobbies or sports which people do for enjoyment
Skying and cycling are my main pursuits at weekends
Video games
Zaidimai
Undoubted benefits
Neabejotini privalumai
Outline possible remedies
Pateikime imanomus atsakymus
Incline
Buti linkusiam
Youngsters may incline to obesity or inadequate development
Console
a. A central control panel for a mechanical, electrical, or electronic system.
Alarming psychological impact
Psihologinebitaka
Undermine
Pakenkti
Undermines their interpersonal skills and makes them underperform both academically and socially
- To weaken by wearing away a base or foundation: Water has undermined the stone foundations.
- To weaken, injure, or impair, often by degrees or imperceptibly; sap: Late hours can undermine one’s health.
- To dig a mine or tunnel beneath.
High-profile spokesperson
Hi fg
Posed
- To set forth in words for consideration; propound: pose a question. See Synonyms at propose.
- To present or constitute: a crisis that posed a threat to the country’s stability.
- To place (a model, for example) in a specific position.
Excessive gaming
Zaidimai
Overconsumption
Perteklinis vartojimas
Abundance
Perteklius
Eagerness to be fit and healthy
Noras buti fir ir sveikiem
Supermarkets are overflowing with options, but despite that we are poorly advised in nutrition and vulnerable to misinformation, unreliable slogans, inaccurate health promises and
Pardesi pilna pasirinkimo
Colourful, tempting packages
Pakuotes
We are bombarded by conflicting information
Priestaraujanti info
Food, diets, supplements
Maistas, dietos, papildai
Can potentially promote deaseas
Skatina ligas
Diet that helps to achieve health goals
T
To change a life style by incorporating plant based foods
T
To get a blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol under control
T
Plant based life style
T
Myths surrounding foods
T
Word’s top authorities on the subject
T
People who had experienced life-changing benefits from healthy eating
T
Sustainable diet
T
Low in fat, hight in fibre, not processed,
T
Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, alzheimer, stroke - diseases of nutritional ignorance
T
Dietary theories
T
Diet that is based in whole plant based foods
T
Hunter gatherers
T
Haunted with many questions
Persekioti, apsesti, neduoti ramybes
Nutrient deficient,
Nutritional deficiency
T
Proteins, calcium, omega 3
T
Valid concerns or simply myths
T
Sufficient amount of calories, no protein deficiency
T
Promoters of the low carb diets, food bars market to the public that they need to have more protein
T
Displacing consumption of those foods that matter- when we eat meat
T
Gargantuan
Milziniskas
Cancer is Geographically distributable - more animal protein, the more cancer and heart disease
T
Exacerbate
Bloginti, gilinti
Saturated fat
T
Poultry, fish, pork
T
High fat, high cholesterol, no dietary fibre, high in a food chain so heavily poluted
T
Dairy products
Pieno productai
We are the only species that drinks milk after the weaning into adulthood
Atjunkinimas
A cocktail of growth hormones- milk
T
Taking control of your health
T
Conscious choice
Samoningas pasirinkimas
There seems to be a lot of controversy on this topic
Priestaravimu
Essential minerals
T
Put of wack
Crazy, silly, irrational, out of order
Accustom
Priprasti
usually foll by: to) to make (oneself) familiar (with) or used (to), as by practice, habit, or experience
Adverse effect
Salutinis poveikis
Obesity is linked to many chronic diseases
Nutukimas
Common knowledge
T
Waist lines is growing out of proprtion
Liemens linija
Orchestrated by ingenious advertising campaigns
Sumanios, isradingos
Celebrity endorsements
Patvirtinimas, pritarimas
Endorse
Patvirtinti, pritarti
Copy cat
Nukopijuota, klonuota, klonas
Less restrictive
Maziau apribojimu
Increase mortality
T
Appetite
Apetitas
You loose your appetite, uou are not able to sustain yourself
It doesnt lead to health
T
Made a declaration, physical and mental strength, willingness to work hard
T
The fat you eat is the fat you wear
T
Food additives that food companies add to the food
T
Overweighted people
T
Diet programmes, pills and suplements
T
Adopt this dietary lifestyle
T
The key for good health is moderation
T
I havent mastered it
T
Credibility
Credible
Patikimumas
Patikimas
Villain
We tend to look at the fast food industry as a villain who is responsible for all the
Piktadarys, nieksas
Is is a supply and demand issue
T
It is as a consumers who should dictate what the market has to offer and not the other way around
T
Shy away from
shy away from - avoid having to deal with some unpleasant task; “I shy away from this task”
avoid - stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; “Her former friends now avoid her”
Sustainable business
T
Treat symptoms instead of finding out the root cause
T
Farmaseutikal base medicine
Conventional
Alternative
Holistic
T
Causing other organs to become diseased
T
Excess weight
T
Physical inactivity
T
Vaccination
Skiepijimas
Immunisation
Imunizacija
immunisation - the act of making immune (especially by inoculation)
immunization
protection - the activity of protecting someone or something; “the witnesses demanded police protection”
inoculation, vaccination - taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease
sensitising, sensitizing, sensitisation, sensitization - rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections
Inoculation
Skiepijimas
The Bubonic plague
Maras
The measles
Tymai
The mumps
Kiaulyte
A cold, heart attack, stroke, sore throat/back/foot, a headache, toothache, backache, a wart, tumor, growth
Ligos
The cure is within the enebody’s reach
T
There is no money in doing right thing
T
Supplements give us energy, stimulate ours immune system, prevent colds, promote weight loss
T
Silver bullet
. A simple remedy for a difficult or intractable problem.
Intractable problem
Sunkiai suvaldoma, sprendziama
Sales pitch
(Commerce) an argument or other persuasion used in selling
promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
sales talk, pitch
promotion, promotional material, publicity, packaging - a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution; “the packaging of new ideas”
Chronic disease
T
Health providers are beginning to embrace the concept of disease prevention through diet instead of spending millions of dollars trying to manage the problem
T
Reimbursement
Reimburse
Kompensavimas
Rigorous
- characterized by or proceeding from rigour; harsh, strict, or severe: rigorous discipline.
- severely accurate; scrupulous: rigorous book-keeping.
- (esp of weather) extreme or harsh
Embrace a plant based life style
T
Embrace
v. em·braced, em·brac·ing, em·brac·es
v.tr.
1. To clasp or hold close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection.
2. To surround or enclose: “the bold chalk ridge that embraces the prominences of Hambledon Hill” (Thomas Hardy).
3. To include or contain as part of something broader. See Synonyms at include.
4. To adopt or support willingly or eagerly: embrace a social cause.
5. To avail oneself of: “I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace” (Henry James).
v.intr.
To join in an embrace.
n.
1. An act of holding close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection; a hug.
2. An enclosure or encirclement: caught in the jungle’s embrace.
3. Eager acceptance: his embrace of socialism.
Strip
a. To remove clothing or covering from: stripped the beds.
b. To remove or take off (clothing or covering): stripped off his shirt.
c. To remove an exterior coating, as of paint or varnish, from: stripped the cabinets.
d. To remove the leaves from the stalks of (tobacco, for example).
e. To clear of a natural covering or growth; make bare: strip a field.
Natural happy hight
T
Fatigue
Nuovargis
Fatigued exhausted
Brain fog
T
Anxiety
Nerimas
Stigma
- An association of disgrace or public disapproval with something, such as an action or condition: “Depression … has become easier to diagnose, and seeking treatment does not carry the stigma it once did” (Greg Critser).
Nutrient dense food
T
Fuelling and nourishing the body
T
Taste bud
Skonio receptoriai
Leaves a big hole in your pocket
You cant afford it
Fast food is marketed towards children
T
Lousy food
- Inferior or worthless: a lousy play.
- Extremely contemptible; nasty: a lousy trick.
- Sick or unwell: I feel really lousy.
- Infested with lice.
- Slang Abundantly supplied: lousy with money.
You have to walk your walk
T
Empower
- To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority. See Synonyms at authorize.
- To equip or supply with an ability; enable: “Computers … empower students to become intellectual explorers” (Edward B. Fiske).
Entrepreneurial skills, activity
Verslumo igudziai
Consciously
Samoningai
Responsible Stewards or their planet
Valdytojai, ekonomai, prievaizdai
Pesticide
Pesticidai
Fraction
Dalele
Overlooked, ignored, misunderstood
T
Rudimentary equipment
Basic, simple
Rampant
Spreading quickly, hard to control
Unrestrained nesulaikomas
Administer
To give medicine, dispense, distribute, hand out
Epidemic, contagious, infectious
T
Diagnose
T
Cognition
Thinking, remembering, understanding, learning
Deterioration
Process of becoming worse
Chronic diseases
Persistent, long lasting, recurring
Impaired
Being less than normal condition
Disabled, handicapted
Disorder
Condition, illness, sicness
Alleviate
Palengvinti
To make smth less paintful
Infect
T
Addiction
Dependance, habit
Examine
Scan, study, inspect
Prevent
Inhibit
Vaccine
T
Overweight
T
Nutrients, vitamins
T
Allergy
T
Fibre, protein, fat
T
Lifespan
Gyvenimo trukme
Welfare system
Sodra.
Problems could occur when increasing number of elderly people begin to rely on the welfare system
