Vocabulary fall #2

Obesity: is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health. Obesity starts off with food at home, garbage food turns your child to obesity in weight and health. 1accumulate: to gather or collect, in gradual degree i work to accumulate money to buy expensive things. 2Mass: a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size. The mass of this generations waist and stomachs is to round 3disease: a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment. This nasty plague disease has killed and infected many people. 4Diet: a particular selection of food, especially as designed or prescribed to improve a person's physical condition or to prevent or treat a disease. I started a carb free diet to help get me skinnier. 5prevalence:the condition of being prevalent, or widespread The prevalence of the plague spread through out Europe really fast 6stigma: a mental or physical mark that is characteristic of a defect or disease The stigma of my recovering from chicken poxs is really disturbing 7prevent: To keep from occurring. Eating healthy and daily exercise prevents me from becoming obese 7adolescent:growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful The teens in society are also the adolescents of society 8cardiovascular: of, pertaining to, or affecting the heart and blood vessels. I cant really come up with a sentence for this.(asking for help) 9excessive: going beyond the usual, necessary, or proper limit or degree; characterized by excess Eating excessive may push your weight beyond the average and into the obese category. 10mechanism: an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage. Your brain is like the mechanism of the body because it controls what everything does. 11sedentary: accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise. office workers are stuck sedentary in their chairs and cubicles all day. 12predispose: to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible i dont really understand this word 13syndrome:a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like