Healthy lifestyle: 5 keys to longer life Flashcards
Living for a long time:
“To what do you attribute your _?”
Longevity
The length of time that a living thing, especially a human being, is likely to live (ожидаемая продолжительность жизни)
Life expectancy
The amount used or eaten / the act of using, eating, or drinking something:
“We need to cut down on our fuel _ by having fewer cars on the road.”
Consumption
1) Existing or happening before something else, or before a particular time:
“ _ studies have shown them to have a large impact on risk of premature death”
2) Before a particular time or event
“the weeks _ _ her death
1) Prior
2) Prior to
Happenning or done too soon, especially before the natural time
“_ death”
Premature
Food that has not had any of its natural features taken away or any artificial substances added
Whole food
A _ from a cereal plant such as rice or wheat that has not had anything removed from it, or a food made from this type of _
Whole grain
One of a particular type of carboxylic acids that are important in the diet, for energy, and for building the body’s cells (e.g. omega - 3)
Fatty acids
Any type of drink
Beverages
Neither small nor large in size, amount, degree, or strength:
“There has been a _ improvement in her health since she began the treatment.”
Moderate
Strong alcoholic drink; liquor
Spirits
In a way that is easy to see or by a large amount:
“My piano playing has improved _ since I started with a new teacher.”
Significantly
An illness related to the heart and blood vessels (= tubes that carry blood around the body)
Cardiovascular disease
To add to something in order to make it bigger or longer:
“We have plans to _ our house (= to make it bigger)”
Extend
The length of time for which a person, animal, or thing exists:
“The more healthy habits people had, the longer their _”
Lifespan
To be likely to behave in a particular way or have a particular characteristic:
“We _ _ get cold winters and warm, dry summers in this part of the country.”
Tend to
In a way that is strange and unusual and difficult to accept or like:
“Her ideas for the project are _ unrealistic”
Outlandishly
Involving many people or things, or happening over a large area:
“We must improve our response to - natural disasters.”
Large-scale
A set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a government, or a political party
Policy
A law or set of laws suggested by a government and made official by a parliament:
“The government has promised to introduce _ to limit fuel emissions from cars.”
Legislation
Negative reaction to a change or to something new that has been introduced (сопротивление):
“There’s plenty of _ from environmentalists.”
Pushback
Information intended to advise people on how something should be done or what something should be (руководство):
“The EU has issued guidelines on appropriate levels of pay for part-time manual workers.”
Guidelines
To be extremely determined to do something, without considering the risks or possible dangerous results
Be hell-bent on smth
