Diabetes Risk Higher Among Overweight

Topic: In recent years, doctors have focused on the growing rate of diabetes
among children and young people. But the most common kind of diabetes, type
II, is more prevalent as people grow older and gain more weight. Before you
know it, there is more fat around the waist and hips than you remembered.
Source: VOA

Watch the video and choose the right answer.

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1. The World Health Organization says in just five years [2015], more than

____________ adults will be overweight.

2,000,000.

2,000,000,000.

2,000,000,000,000.

2. At the beginning of the study, half of the participants had been diagnosed with

diabetes.

True.
 False.

It's not said on the video.

3. Even among adults over 75, having a higher body mass index was associated

with an increased risk of diabetes as twice as great.

True.

False.

It's not said on the video.

4. Obese women had a ______________________________ risk of diabetes than

those who were just overweight.

three times higher.

 three and a half times higher.

five and a half times higher.

5. The only way to keep the risk of diabetes down is to control your weight.

True.

False.

It's not said on the video.