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Weekly news- week 1

A 3,000-Mile Triumph, Spurred on by Diabetes

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/health/30well.html?_r=1&8dpc

Questions:

1.-Do you think to have diabetes change your life? Can you do the same than the rest of people?

2.-Do you think that is increasing the quantity of affected by diabetes?

3.-What are the factors that influence in the illness? How can we decrease the risk of have diabetes? 

New vocabulary:

Diabetes: any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst.

Achievement: the action of accomplishing something.

Drops in blood sugar: a sudden sharp decrease in quantity of sugar.

Definitions from http://www.wordreference.com/definition