- •Анисимова н.И., Вербицкая с.В., Румянцева м.Е. Steps up 5
- •Introduction 4
- •Introduction 6
- •Introduction 50
- •Introduction 72
- •Introduction 92
- •Introduction
- •Unit 1. Health
- •Introduction Fighting Fit
- •Health and Fitness
- •Time Matters
- •Heart disease and changing attitudes
- •Heart disease: treat or prevent?
- •Health and illness
- •Diagnosis and Remedies
- •A Nurse's lament
- •Alternative therapy
- •Acupuncture
- •Alternative therapy and migraine
- •Bad habits
- •Linking words and phrases
- •Stress-related hair loss
- •Smile Power
- •Stressbusters
- •Aids – not someone else's problem
- •Ethical questions in health care
- •Medicine and genetic research
- •Synonyms and Paraphrases
- •Take care in the sun
- •Plastic surgery
- •Homeopathy
- •Better health for everyone
- •1. One Earth – Two Worlds of Health
- •2. Increasing Costs and Ethical Choices: Health Care in the Industrial World
- •Vocabulary in Context
- •3. A Question of Priorities: Health Care in the Third World
- •Vocabulary in Context
- •4. Prevention – Often Better Than Cure
- •Health scares
- •Slim chance
- •The place where you work
- •At the mercy of the cure
- •Check yourself
- •Unit 2. Psychology.
- •Introduction You And Your Image
- •Behaviour in crowds
- •Practical psyhology
- •From head to toe. Body language.
- •Idiomatic Expressions
- •Mutual impressions
- •Character and personality
- •Character
- •Social Types
- •Friends
- •Character reference
- •Personal equation cards
- •Unit 3. Men vs. Women
- •Introduction
- •Recognizing Stereotypes
- •Big boys don’t cry
- •Short Views
- •Women and power: perspectives from anthropology
- •Why I want a wife
- •Exploring fatherhood
- •Attitudes and beliefs
- •A 1980s Couple
- •I must admit, I'm afraid I'm tempted to agree.
- •Definite Attitudes
- •Gender on Screen
- •Afraid of giving
- •Male and female conversational styles
- •Check yourself
- •Unit 4. Shall we believe it?
- •Introduction Your Superstitious Beliefs
- •Strange but true
- •Believe it or not
- •Mystics and prophets
- •Reading your palm
- •The ‘night’ side of life
- •Dreamland
- •Lunatics
- •The russians
- •Unit 5. Diversity of cultures
- •Culture shock
- •1. United States of America
- •2. South Africa
- •3. Thailand
- •4. Malaysia
- •5. China
- •6. Britain
- •7. France
- •What Makes An American?
- •Culture defined
- •Comparing and contrasting cultures
- •Global culture
- •Chinese space, american space
- •Japanese and american workers: two states of mind
- •Let's play fifty questions
- •The importance of manners
- •Violence sneaks into punk scene
- •These children are taught to survive
- •Unusual homes
- •Unusual occupations
- •Career expectations
- •Check yourself
- •Sources
Heart disease and changing attitudes
In the recent past, medical researchers have shown that heart disease is associated with certain factors in our day-to-day lives: with stress, with smoking, with poor nutrition, and with a lack of exercise. Doctors and other health experts have begun to emphasize the fact that we can often reduce the risk of heart disease by paying more attention to these factors.
More and more people are realizing that there is a connection between heart disease and the way they live. As a result of this new awareness, attitudes toward health are changing: in the past, people tended to think that it was sufficient for good health to have a good doctor who could be relied on to know exactly what to do when they became ill. Now they are realizing that merely receiving the best treatment for illness or injury is not enough. They are learning that they must take more responsibility for their own health. Today many people are changing their dietary habits and eating food with less fat and cholesterol. Many are paying more attention to reducing stress in their lives. The number of smokers in the United States is now far below the level of twenty years ago as many people succeed in breaking the habit and as fewer people take it up. More and more are aware of the benefits of regular exercise like walking, running, or swimming; some have begun to walk or ride bicycles to work instead of driving. Millions have become members of health clubs and have made health clubs one of the fastest growing businesses in the United States today. And now the beneficial effects of these changing attitudes and behaviors are beginning to appear: an encouraging decrease in deaths from heart disease.
Main Idea Check
1. What is the meaning of these factors? Check in previous sentences.
2. What is the meaning of this new awareness? Check in previous sentences.
3. Choose the sentence that best expresses the main idea of the passage:
a. As a result of medical evidence about the causes of heart disease, more and more people are changing the way they live.
b. The number of health clubs in the United States is increasing rapidly.
c. Medical research has shown clearly that people should reduce the amount of fat in the food they eat.
4. What is not one of the factors associated with heart disease that are mentioned in this passage?
a. unhealthy food
b. cigarettes
c. poverty
d. pressure
e. no regular exercise
5. The writer suggests that doctors in the past did not always inform their patients about the importance of exercise and good nutrition for their health. T / F
6. If you don't smoke, if you exercise regularly, if you reduce the fat in your food, the risk of heart disease
a. increases.
b. decreases.
c. remains the same.
7. What change in attitude does the writer describe in this passage?
a. More and more people are realizing that medical science can cure heart disease.
b. More and more people are realizing that they should take better care of their bodies.
c. More and more Americans are dying of heart disease.
8. Today an increasing number of people are driving to work instead of walking. T / F
What Do You Think?
Do you think that there are other factors that increase or reduce a person's chance of getting heart disease? What could these factors be? This passage, for example, doesn't mention poverty as a possible factor. Do you think it could be? If so, how could poverty possibly be associated with heart disease?
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