Vocabulary: Fall #2

• Obesity: The condition of being very fat or overweight.
• Accumulate: To gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up.
• Mass: A body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size.
• Disease: A disorder 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.
• Diet: Food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effect on health.
• Prevalence: The condition of being prevalent, or widespread.
• Stigma: A mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
• Prevent(able): To keep from occurring; avert.
• Adolescent: Growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
• Cardiovascular: of, pertaining to, or affecting the heart and blood vessels.
• Excessive: Going beyond the usual, necessary, or proper limit or degree; characterized by excess.
• Mechanism: An assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine.
• Sedentary: Characterized by or requiring a sitting posture.
• Predispose: To give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible.
• Syndrome: Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.