Cholesterol and heart disease

1. pre-reading

• Do you like to eat fast food? Do you do exercise regularly?
• Do you learn of your cholesterol level?

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2. reading comprehension questions

• What is the health problem American people are encountering?  What is the cause for this disease? (P2)
• Do cholesterol levels have to do with heart disease? (P3)
• What would affect the amount of cholesterol? What is the hardening of the arteries? (P4)
• Heart disease will not happen to children. True? (P5)
• What is a safe level of cholesterol? (P6)
• How can we lower our cholesterol level? (P7)
• How can we educate people about the danger of cholesterol? (P8)
• How much can we improve our cholesterol level if we do something for it? (P9)
• How can we eat a diet low in cholesterol level? (P10) 
• How can we reduce our anxiety about a new diet? (P11)
• How can restaurant owners make customers feel comfortable about their diet? (P12)

3. collocations

• heart disease (line 5)
• heart attack (line 9)
• ... cholesterol levels are connected with heart disease. (line 15)
• people inherit from their parents (line 21)
• result in (line 46) 
• along with (line 56)
• by thirty or forty percent (line 61)
• by the time (line 63)
• go on a vegetarian diet (line 66)
• get used to (line 77)
• deal with (line 83)
• changes in (line 83)
• attractive to (line 103)
• stare at (line 104)
• the same problem as (line 108)

4. usage and grammar

• ... suffer chest pains that make simple activities ... difficult. (line 12-13)
• One kind of cholesterol sticks fat to the walls of arteries, making the arteries smaller and finally blocking them. (line 21-23)
• doctors can see blood circulating through the heart valves. (lines 25-26)
• By the time ..., he had lowered his arterial blockage ... (line 64) 
• By 2009, sixty percent of the people had theirs checked. (line 100)

5. Quizlet