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To stem from

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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

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Sedentary lifestyle

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The lifestyle where people sits for long periods and are generally inactive

Sedentary lifestyle which these games encourage

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Obesity

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The medical condition of being seriously overweight

Obesity is a major cause of death among young adults

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Inadequate development

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Insufficient or obstructed growth of the body

Smiking can cause inadequate development of lungs and brains

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Strain

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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

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Symptoms

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Indications that medical problem is present

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Impairment

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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

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Hinder

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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.

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Poor diet

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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

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Malnutrition

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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

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Convenience food

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Food which is cooked in its packaging, usually in microwave

To eat large amount of convenience food

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Addiction

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The state of being unable to live without something

Addicted to social media and internet

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To socialise

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To meet with friends and other people

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Interpersonal skills

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The skills of dealing with people successfully

To develop interpersonal skills

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To underperform

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To perform below your peers or expectations

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Active lifestyle

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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

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A regime, programme

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A planned system of exercise, diet or sport

I adopted vegetarian regime for free months

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To detoxify your body

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To remove impurities and poisons

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Fatty food

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Riebus maistas

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Sponsorship

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Payment from a company to a sport or other activity in return for publicity

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Participation

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Join and rake a part in smth

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Competitive

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Adj for competition

This could be done by sponsorship of sports or particiiation in Competitive events such as races or matches

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Ameliorating the physical effects

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To ameliorate to make a problem less damaging

The effects if injury were ameliorated by extensive physiotherapy

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Rmedies

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Cures or answers to a problem or situation

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An initiative

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A new programme or idea, usually in government or business

Initiative to tackle obesity, ant-social behaviour and delinquency

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Raise awareness

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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

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Health warnings

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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

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Champions

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Highly successful people in sport or business

Rodger Federer is a champion tenis player and a good role model too.

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Figureheads

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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

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Dependency

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The condition on relying on smth in an addictive way

Treated for drug dependency at a detox clinic

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Pursuits

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Hobbies or sports which people do for enjoyment

Skying and cycling are my main pursuits at weekends

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Video games

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Zaidimai

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Undoubted benefits

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Neabejotini privalumai

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Outline possible remedies

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Pateikime imanomus atsakymus

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Incline

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Buti linkusiam

Youngsters may incline to obesity or inadequate development

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Console

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a. A central control panel for a mechanical, electrical, or electronic system.

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Alarming psychological impact

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Psihologinebitaka

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Undermine

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Pakenkti

Undermines their interpersonal skills and makes them underperform both academically and socially

  1. To weaken by wearing away a base or foundation: Water has undermined the stone foundations.
  2. To weaken, injure, or impair, often by degrees or imperceptibly; sap: Late hours can undermine one’s health.
  3. To dig a mine or tunnel beneath.
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High-profile spokesperson

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Hi fg

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Posed

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  1. To set forth in words for consideration; propound: pose a question. See Synonyms at propose.
  2. To present or constitute: a crisis that posed a threat to the country’s stability.
  3. To place (a model, for example) in a specific position.
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Excessive gaming

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Zaidimai

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Overconsumption

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Perteklinis vartojimas

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Abundance

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Perteklius

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Eagerness to be fit and healthy

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Noras buti fir ir sveikiem

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Supermarkets are overflowing with options, but despite that we are poorly advised in nutrition and vulnerable to misinformation, unreliable slogans, inaccurate health promises and

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Pardesi pilna pasirinkimo

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Colourful, tempting packages

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Pakuotes

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We are bombarded by conflicting information

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Priestaraujanti info

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48
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Food, diets, supplements

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Maistas, dietos, papildai

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Can potentially promote deaseas

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Skatina ligas

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50
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Diet that helps to achieve health goals

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T

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51
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To change a life style by incorporating plant based foods

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T

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52
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To get a blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol under control

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T

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Plant based life style

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T

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Myths surrounding foods

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T

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Word’s top authorities on the subject

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T

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56
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People who had experienced life-changing benefits from healthy eating

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T

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57
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Sustainable diet

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T

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58
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Low in fat, hight in fibre, not processed,

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T

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Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, alzheimer, stroke - diseases of nutritional ignorance

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T

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Dietary theories

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T

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61
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Diet that is based in whole plant based foods

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T

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Hunter gatherers

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T

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Haunted with many questions

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Persekioti, apsesti, neduoti ramybes

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Nutrient deficient,

Nutritional deficiency

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T

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Proteins, calcium, omega 3

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T

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Valid concerns or simply myths

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T

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67
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Sufficient amount of calories, no protein deficiency

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T

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68
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Promoters of the low carb diets, food bars market to the public that they need to have more protein

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T

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69
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Displacing consumption of those foods that matter- when we eat meat

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T

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70
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Gargantuan

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Milziniskas

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Cancer is Geographically distributable - more animal protein, the more cancer and heart disease

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T

72
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Exacerbate

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Bloginti, gilinti

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Saturated fat

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T

74
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Poultry, fish, pork

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T

75
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High fat, high cholesterol, no dietary fibre, high in a food chain so heavily poluted

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T

76
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Dairy products

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Pieno productai

77
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We are the only species that drinks milk after the weaning into adulthood

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Atjunkinimas

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A cocktail of growth hormones- milk

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T

79
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Taking control of your health

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T

80
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Conscious choice

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Samoningas pasirinkimas

81
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There seems to be a lot of controversy on this topic

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Priestaravimu

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Essential minerals

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T

83
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Put of wack

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Crazy, silly, irrational, out of order

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Accustom

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Priprasti

usually foll by: to) to make (oneself) familiar (with) or used (to), as by practice, habit, or experience

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Adverse effect

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Salutinis poveikis

86
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Obesity is linked to many chronic diseases

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Nutukimas

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Common knowledge

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T

88
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Waist lines is growing out of proprtion

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Liemens linija

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Orchestrated by ingenious advertising campaigns

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Sumanios, isradingos

90
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Celebrity endorsements

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Patvirtinimas, pritarimas

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Endorse

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Patvirtinti, pritarti

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Copy cat

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Nukopijuota, klonuota, klonas

93
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Less restrictive

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Maziau apribojimu

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Increase mortality

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T

95
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Appetite

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Apetitas

You loose your appetite, uou are not able to sustain yourself

96
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It doesnt lead to health

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T

97
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Made a declaration, physical and mental strength, willingness to work hard

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T

98
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The fat you eat is the fat you wear

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T

99
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Food additives that food companies add to the food

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T

100
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Overweighted people

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T

101
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Diet programmes, pills and suplements

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T

102
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Adopt this dietary lifestyle

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T

103
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The key for good health is moderation

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T

104
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I havent mastered it

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T

105
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Credibility

Credible

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Patikimumas

Patikimas

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Villain

We tend to look at the fast food industry as a villain who is responsible for all the

A

Piktadarys, nieksas

107
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Is is a supply and demand issue

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T

108
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It is as a consumers who should dictate what the market has to offer and not the other way around

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T

109
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Shy away from

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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”

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Sustainable business

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T

111
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Treat symptoms instead of finding out the root cause

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T

112
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Farmaseutikal base medicine
Conventional
Alternative
Holistic

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T

113
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Causing other organs to become diseased

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T

114
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Excess weight

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T

115
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Physical inactivity

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T

116
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Vaccination

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Skiepijimas

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Immunisation

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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

118
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Inoculation

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Skiepijimas

119
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The Bubonic plague

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Maras

120
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The measles

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Tymai

121
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The mumps

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Kiaulyte

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A cold, heart attack, stroke, sore throat/back/foot, a headache, toothache, backache, a wart, tumor, growth

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Ligos

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The cure is within the enebody’s reach

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T

124
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There is no money in doing right thing

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T

125
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Supplements give us energy, stimulate ours immune system, prevent colds, promote weight loss

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T

126
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Silver bullet

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. A simple remedy for a difficult or intractable problem.

127
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Intractable problem

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Sunkiai suvaldoma, sprendziama

128
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Sales pitch

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(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”

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Chronic disease

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T

130
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Health providers are beginning to embrace the concept of disease prevention through diet instead of spending millions of dollars trying to manage the problem

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T

131
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Reimbursement

Reimburse

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Kompensavimas

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Rigorous

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  1. characterized by or proceeding from rigour; harsh, strict, or severe: rigorous discipline.
  2. severely accurate; scrupulous: rigorous book-keeping.
  3. (esp of weather) extreme or harsh
133
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Embrace a plant based life style

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T

134
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Embrace

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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.

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Strip

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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.

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Natural happy hight

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T

137
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Fatigue

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Nuovargis

Fatigued exhausted

138
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Brain fog

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T

139
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Anxiety

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Nerimas

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Stigma

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  1. 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).
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Nutrient dense food

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T

142
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Fuelling and nourishing the body

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T

143
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Taste bud

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Skonio receptoriai

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Leaves a big hole in your pocket

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You cant afford it

145
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Fast food is marketed towards children

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T

146
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Lousy food

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  1. Inferior or worthless: a lousy play.
  2. Extremely contemptible; nasty: a lousy trick.
  3. Sick or unwell: I feel really lousy.
  4. Infested with lice.
  5. Slang Abundantly supplied: lousy with money.
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You have to walk your walk

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T

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Empower

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  1. To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority. See Synonyms at authorize.
  2. To equip or supply with an ability; enable: “Computers … empower students to become intellectual explorers” (Edward B. Fiske).
149
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Entrepreneurial skills, activity

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Verslumo igudziai

150
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Consciously

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Samoningai

151
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Responsible Stewards or their planet

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Valdytojai, ekonomai, prievaizdai

152
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Pesticide

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Pesticidai

153
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Fraction

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Dalele

154
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Overlooked, ignored, misunderstood

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T

155
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Rudimentary equipment

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Basic, simple

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Rampant

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Spreading quickly, hard to control

Unrestrained nesulaikomas

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Administer

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To give medicine, dispense, distribute, hand out

158
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Epidemic, contagious, infectious

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T

159
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Diagnose

A

T

160
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Cognition

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Thinking, remembering, understanding, learning

161
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Deterioration

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Process of becoming worse

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Chronic diseases

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Persistent, long lasting, recurring

163
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Impaired

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Being less than normal condition

Disabled, handicapted

164
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Disorder

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Condition, illness, sicness

165
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Alleviate

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Palengvinti

To make smth less paintful

166
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Infect

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T

167
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Addiction

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Dependance, habit

168
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Examine

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Scan, study, inspect

169
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Prevent

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Inhibit

170
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Vaccine

A

T

171
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Overweight

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T

172
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Nutrients, vitamins

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T

173
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Allergy

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T

174
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Fibre, protein, fat

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T

175
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Lifespan

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Gyvenimo trukme

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Welfare system

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Sodra.

Problems could occur when increasing number of elderly people begin to rely on the welfare system

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