{"id":1032,"date":"2010-04-28T13:40:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2010-04-28T02:41:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:41:03","slug":"reading-comprehension-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/reading-comprehension-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Comprehension: Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For today&#8217;s reading comprehension exercise, we&#8217;re going to take a look at a hot topic in Brazil this week: a new study about hypertension and Brazilian health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principal causador da hipertens\u00e3o, sal \u00e9 o novo vil\u00e3o da dieta<\/strong> &#8211; VEJA<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt: <em>Depois da guerra travada contra o tabaco e o a\u00e7\u00facar, as autoridades de sa\u00fade agora miram suas armas para outro vil\u00e3o da dieta: o sal. Uma pesquisa divulgada nesta segunda-feira pelo Minist\u00e9rio da Sa\u00fade mostra que a propor\u00e7\u00e3o de brasileiros com hipertens\u00e3o arterial cresceu de 21,5%, em 2006, para 24,4% em 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>O levantamento, que entrevistou 54 mil adultos, concluiu que, apesar de terem aumentado em todas as faixas et\u00e1rias, os casos de hipertens\u00e3o cresceram sobretudo entre os idosos &#8211; 63,2% das pessoas com 65 anos ou mais apresentam o problema. Em 2006, esse porcentual era de 57,8%.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/veja.abril.com.br\/noticia\/saude\/adiantamento-vilao-hipertensao-sal-deve-ser-banido-dieta-552577.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Questions<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. What is one of the main culprits behind rising hypertension in Brazilians?<\/p>\n<p>2. How many people were included in the study?<\/p>\n<p>3. On average, how much salt does the typical Brazilian consume each day, according to the study?<\/p>\n<p>4. According to the article, who is more likely to suffer from hypertension?<\/p>\n<p>5. What does excessive salt consumption do to the body?<\/p>\n<p>Answers after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>Answers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. Salt<\/p>\n<p>2. 54,000<\/p>\n<p>3. 12 grams per day<\/p>\n<p>4. The elderly and women<\/p>\n<p>5. Water and sodium retention in the kidneys; higher blood pressure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For today&#8217;s reading comprehension exercise, we&#8217;re going to take a look at a hot topic in Brazil this week: a new study about hypertension and Brazilian health. Principal causador da hipertens\u00e3o, sal \u00e9 o novo vil\u00e3o da dieta &#8211; VEJA Excerpt: Depois da guerra travada contra o tabaco e o a\u00e7\u00facar, as autoridades de sa\u00fade&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/reading-comprehension-public-health\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1845,1851],"tags":[1909,1949,8068,8525,3364,2447],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-brazilian-news","category-learning","tag-article","tag-brazil","tag-health","tag-hypertension","tag-questions","tag-reading"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}