Questões de Inglês

Friends are Good for Your Health

July 28, 2010

 

 Having good social relationships – friends, marriage or children – may be every bit as important to a healthy lifespan as quitting smoking, losing weight or taking certain medications, US researchers have reported. People with strong social relationships were 50 percent less likely to die early than people without such support, the team at Brigham Young University in Utah found. They suggest that policymakers look at ways to help people maintain social relationships as a way of keeping the population healthy. “A lack of social relationships was equivalent to smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day,” psychologist Julianne Holt-Lunstad, who led the study, said in a telephone interview. Her team conducted a meta-analysis of studies that examine  social relationships and their effects on health. They looked at 148studies that covered more than 308,000 people for their analysis, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine. Having low levels of social interaction was equivalent to being an alcoholic, was more harmful than not exercising and was twice as harmful as obesity. Social relationships had a bigger impact on premature death than getting an adult vaccine to prevent pneumonia, than taking drugs for high blood pressure and far more important than exposure to air pollution, they found. “I certainly don’t want to downplay these other risk factors because of course they are very important,” Holt-Lunstad said. “We need to start taking social relationships just as seriously.” Her team found some troubling evidence that Americans are becoming more isolated, and thus losing the support and care that love and friendship provide. “For instance, trends reveal reduced intergenerational living, greater social mobility, delayed marriage, dual-career families, increased single-residence households, and increased age-related disabilities,” they wrote. “More specifically, over the last two decades there has been a three-fold increase in the number of Americans who report having no confidant,” they added. “Such findings suggest that despite increases in technology and globalisation that would presumably foster social connections, people are becoming increasingly more socially isolated.” 

 

(www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/3965008/Friends-are-good-for-your-health. Adaptado) 

Segundo o texto, nos Estados Unidos,

Friends are Good for Your Health

July 28, 2010

 

 Having good social relationships – friends, marriage or children – may be every bit as important to a healthy lifespan as quitting smoking, losing weight or taking certain medications, US researchers have reported. People with strong social relationships were 50 percent less likely to die early than people without such support, the team at Brigham Young University in Utah found. They suggest that policymakers look at ways to help people maintain social relationships as a way of keeping the population healthy. “A lack of social relationships was equivalent to smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day,” psychologist Julianne Holt-Lunstad, who led the study, said in a telephone interview. Her team conducted a meta-analysis of studies that examine  social relationships and their effects on health. They looked at 148studies that covered more than 308,000 people for their analysis, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine. Having low levels of social interaction was equivalent to being an alcoholic, was more harmful than not exercising and was twice as harmful as obesity. Social relationships had a bigger impact on premature death than getting an adult vaccine to prevent pneumonia, than taking drugs for high blood pressure and far more important than exposure to air pollution, they found. “I certainly don’t want to downplay these other risk factors because of course they are very important,” Holt-Lunstad said. “We need to start taking social relationships just as seriously.” Her team found some troubling evidence that Americans are becoming more isolated, and thus losing the support and care that love and friendship provide. “For instance, trends reveal reduced intergenerational living, greater social mobility, delayed marriage, dual-career families, increased single-residence households, and increased age-related disabilities,” they wrote. “More specifically, over the last two decades there has been a three-fold increase in the number of Americans who report having no confidant,” they added. “Such findings suggest that despite increases in technology and globalisation that would presumably foster social connections, people are becoming increasingly more socially isolated.” 

 

(www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/3965008/Friends-are-good-for-your-health. Adaptado) 

The study conducted by Julianne Holt-Lunstad and her team

Friends are Good for Your Health

July 28, 2010

 

 Having good social relationships – friends, marriage or children – may be every bit as important to a healthy lifespan as quitting smoking, losing weight or taking certain medications, US researchers have reported. People with strong social relationships were 50 percent less likely to die early than people without such support, the team at Brigham Young University in Utah found. They suggest that policymakers look at ways to help people maintain social relationships as a way of keeping the population healthy. “A lack of social relationships was equivalent to smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day,” psychologist Julianne Holt-Lunstad, who led the study, said in a telephone interview. Her team conducted a meta-analysis of studies that examine  social relationships and their effects on health. They looked at 148studies that covered more than 308,000 people for their analysis, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine. Having low levels of social interaction was equivalent to being an alcoholic, was more harmful than not exercising and was twice as harmful as obesity. Social relationships had a bigger impact on premature death than getting an adult vaccine to prevent pneumonia, than taking drugs for high blood pressure and far more important than exposure to air pollution, they found. “I certainly don’t want to downplay these other risk factors because of course they are very important,” Holt-Lunstad said. “We need to start taking social relationships just as seriously.” Her team found some troubling evidence that Americans are becoming more isolated, and thus losing the support and care that love and friendship provide. “For instance, trends reveal reduced intergenerational living, greater social mobility, delayed marriage, dual-career families, increased single-residence households, and increased age-related disabilities,” they wrote. “More specifically, over the last two decades there has been a three-fold increase in the number of Americans who report having no confidant,” they added. “Such findings suggest that despite increases in technology and globalisation that would presumably foster social connections, people are becoming increasingly more socially isolated.” 

 

(www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/3965008/Friends-are-good-for-your-health. Adaptado) 

According to the text,

Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the problem of childhood obesity in a generation so that kids born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. This is an ambitious goal. But it can be done. Combining comprehensive strategies with common sense, Let’s Move! is about putting children on the path to a healthy future starting with their earliest months and years and continuing throughout their lives. Giving parents helpful information and fostering environments that support healthy choices. Providing healthier foods in our schools. Ensuring that every community has access to healthy, affordable food. And, helping kids become more physically active. [...]

 

“In the end, as First Lady, this isn’t just a policy issue for me. This is a passion. This is my mission. I am determined to work with folks across this country to change the way a generation of kids thinks about food and physical activity.” — First Lady Michelle Obama

Retirado de http://www.letsmove.gov/resources em 10/04/2011

 

Considere as afirmações:

I. “Let’s move” pretende mudar a maneira como uma geração encara a comida e a atividade física.

II. Uma das estratégias do “Let’s move” é fornecer informações úteis aos pais, além de favorecer ambientes que apoiem as escolhas saudáveis.

III. Entre as ações do “Let’s move” está o boicote às cadeias de fast food dos Estados Unidos.

São verdadeiras:

Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the problem of childhood obesity in a generation so that kids born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. This is an ambitious goal. But it can be done. Combining comprehensive strategies with common sense, Let’s Move! is about putting children on the path to a healthy future starting with their earliest months and years and continuing throughout their lives. Giving parents helpful information and fostering environments that support healthy choices. Providing healthier foods in our schools. Ensuring that every community has access to healthy, affordable food. And, helping kids become more physically active. [...]

 

“In the end, as First Lady, this isn’t just a policy issue for me. This is a passion. This is my mission. I am determined to work with folks across this country to change the way a generation of kids thinks about food and physical activity.” — First Lady Michelle Obama

Retirado de http://www.letsmove.gov/resources em 10/04/2011

 

No trecho “[...] kids born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams”, a expressão ‘their” refere-se a:

Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the problem of childhood obesity in a generation so that kids born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. This is an ambitious goal. But it can be done. Combining comprehensive strategies with common sense, Let’s Move! is about putting children on the path to a healthy future starting with their earliest months and years and continuing throughout their lives. Giving parents helpful information and fostering environments that support healthy choices. Providing healthier foods in our schools. Ensuring that every community has access to healthy, affordable food. And, helping kids become more physically active. [...]

 

“In the end, as First Lady, this isn’t just a policy issue for me. This is a passion. This is my mission. I am determined to work with folks across this country to change the way a generation of kids thinks about food and physical activity.” — First Lady Michelle Obama

Retirado de http://www.letsmove.gov/resources em 10/04/2011

 

De acordo com Michelle Obama, “Let’s Move” é para ela: