Want to improve the nation’s health care?

Stay
healthy.

No _____1____how the laws change in Washington, D.C., preventive medicine experts

say the single best way to improve the nation’s health is simple: Stay healthy.
Preventable illnesses like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and several leading
forms of cancer make _____2____ a big chunk of health care spending, costing billions
of dollars. They rob millions of Americans of years of life and blight the final years of
_____3____ with sickness and disability.
It doesn’t have to be that way. Consider evidence _____4____ a 2009 study of 23,153
adults who took part in the European Prospective Investigation _____5____ Cancer
and Nutrition. Volunteers who followed four tenets of good health -- they didn’t smoke
or get fat; they exercised and ate a healthy diet -- were 80% _____6____ likely to
develop chronic illnesses such as type 2 diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. Their risk
of developing type 2 diabetes was 92% _____7____ than the risk of people who
shunned the familiar health advice. Their odds of having a heart attack were 81%
lower.
Help nature _____8____ by stimulating your body to get rid of toxins. Body brushing
_____9____ circulation, speeds up lymphatic drainage and gives you a glow. Every
morning in the shower use a natural body brush or sisal mitt to lightly brush
_____10____ from the ankles towards the centre of the body in firm, sweeping
movements (for no more than five minutes).

1- matter 2- up 3-others 4- from 5- into 6-less 7- lower 8- along

9-improves 10- upwards