DIABETES

Warm-up: What do you know about diabetes? Consider the types of diabetes, its causes and
complications, and the treatment (the picture below will help you).

Do you know anybody who suffers from this disease? (Provide details: How long have they had it?
What type of diabetes do they suffer from? How is their lifestyle different from that of a healthy
person? )

Activity 1: Read the article “Complications of Diabetes in the United States” quickly. What do the
following figures refer to?

Example: 65% - This is the percentage of deaths caused by heart disease and stroke in people with
diabetes.

Vývojový diagram: alternativní postup: 65% from 1971 to 2000 44% 46, 739 40 2004 10






Activity 2: Choose 5 figures from the text. Prepare questions so that your partner answers with the
figure.

Example:

How many amputations were performed in people with diabetes in 2004?          Around 71,000.


Activity 3: Read the article again. Find words which can complete the following definitions.

1.   A serious illness when a blood vessel in the brain bursts or is blocked. It can cause death or
the loss of the ability to move or to speak clearly.

2.   High blood pressure.

3.   The state of not working correctly or as expected.

4.   To be the explanation or cause of something.

5.   A process for separating substances from a liquid, especially for taking waste substances out
of the blood of people with damaged kidneys.

6.   Damaged or made worse.

7.   A measurement of the number of times something happens or exists during a particular period.


Follow-up:

Watch the following video “Delicious Diabetic Diets”. Make notes about new information/knowledge
that you have learned from the video.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1078549946?bclid=909933387&bctid=1126051447


Homework:

Watch more videos on diabetes from the follow-up activity or listen to a BBC health program about
diabetes on this webpage:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/checkup_20060406.shtml

Prepare a short (two-minute) presentation about what new or important information you have learned
from watching the videos or listening to the health program.