B2 · 100 entries · Five themes

Health Fitness and Lifestyle Choices

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1. Health information (20 entries)
  1. make an informed choice
  2. health claim
  3. access to care
  4. research finding
  5. family history
  6. dizzy
  7. prevention
  8. long-term condition
  9. risk factor
  10. informed choice
  11. accessible information
  12. community care
  13. self-report
  14. specialist clinic
  15. sneeze
  16. private provider
  17. secondary care
  18. primary care
  19. screening programme
  20. referral
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2. Lifestyle pressures (20 entries)
  1. social pressure
  2. cope with demands
  3. work-life balance
  4. set limits
  5. caring responsibility
  6. prioritise rest
  7. health promotion
  8. rising demand
  9. dietary needs
  10. budget pressure
  11. behavioural change
  12. workforce shortage
  13. service disruption
  14. manage demand
  15. breathing space
  16. ageing population
  17. ease the pressure
  18. common assumption
  19. pattern
  20. work-related stress
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3. Physical activity (20 entries)
  1. endurance
  2. exhausting
  3. sustainable pace
  4. build stamina
  5. stride
  6. sway
  7. glide
  8. spiral
  9. breath
  10. curve
  11. intensity
  12. force
  13. bear weight
  14. release tension
  15. trace a path
  16. loop
  17. descend
  18. tighten a grip
  19. grip
  20. crunch
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4. Support and recovery (20 entries)
  1. adapt your routine
  2. self-care
  3. recovery period
  4. manageable goal
  5. emotional support
  6. physiotherapy
  7. follow-up visit
  8. regain strength
  9. rebuild confidence
  10. pace yourself
  11. heal
  12. stretch
  13. disability
  14. support act
  15. waist
  16. combination
  17. sustain effort
  18. bruise
  19. cardigan
  20. sole
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5. Evaluating health claims (20 entries)
  1. misleading claim
  2. weigh up evidence
  3. question an assumption
  4. compare outcomes
  5. personal testimony
  6. draw a cautious conclusion
  7. association
  8. consider alternatives
  9. long-term outcome
  10. objective measure
  11. source of funding
  12. short-term effect
  13. survey finding
  14. misleading
  15. experimental result
  16. cross-check
  17. disprove
  18. selective
  19. imitation
  20. excessive
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