TEXT 1: HOW STRESS
MAKES YOU SICK
“Feeling overwhelmed
affects everything from digestion to stroke risk”
By: Olga Khazan
Published: The
Atlantic, Oct 28, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/how-stress-makes-you-sick/412699/
Level of difficulty: **
BEFORE YOU READ
·
Watch the video from TED Ed, written by the Emory University professor of medicine
Sharon Bergquist and make some notes: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-stress-affects-your-body-sharon-horesh-bergquist
QUESTIONS
1. Why do people tend to ignore suggestions
like “Stop worrying! Stress is bad for you”?
2. Read the remainder of the text. Which
sentence best summarizes what is expressed?
·
The
physical effects of stress should not be ignored
·
Chronic
stress has terrible consequences for the body
·
Stress
affects every organ and system in the body
·
Stress
damages every organ and system in the body
HOW STRESS MAKES YOU
SICK KEY AND TEACHER’S NOTES
This text is an
introduction to the major reading task, text2. It focuses on the physical
effects of stress.
1. Because
it isn’t immediately clear how it will make them healthier
2. Stress damages every organ and system in
the body
TEXT 2: HOW BEING POOR MAKES YOU SICK
“Some patients are being prescribed bicycles
and groceries as doctors attempt to treat the lifestyle consequences of
poverty, in addition to its medical consequences”
By: Olga Khazan
Published: The Atlantic, May 21, 2014, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/poverty-makes-you-sick/371241/
Level of Difficulty: **
BEFORE YOU READ
- How does 'toxic
stress' of poverty hurt the developing brain? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdTiPGVZNes
·
Viewers sound off on the effects of 'toxic
stress' from poverty
QUESTIONS
- What unusual remedy
does Meyer’s suggest to some of his patients?
- It is implied in the
text commuting by bike is both practical / problematic / tiring and
good for you / physical / sedentary
- Poor people are unable
to exercise due to: tick those that fit
- Time concerns
- Health concerns
- Lack of amenities
- Security concerns
- Financial concerns
- What is one possible
reason why poorer people are less healthy?
- Poor people tend to
have higher blood pressure, stress hormones and body mass index because
the life they lead ………………………………………….To sum up, poverty changes………………………….
- Anxiety disorder and
similar problems are closely linked to toxic stress in childhood because….
- The research done for
Science last year proved that the greater the ……………………the greater the
problems with………………………………..
- Scan the text as far
as a “Patchwork of programs” and list the negative effects of poverty on
the physical and psychological makeup of the brain. There are five.
- Society has made the
serious mistake of not considering poverty ………………………………
- Why has Health Leads
got the right approach to the problem discussed thus far in the text? Use
your own words
- As a result of
sessions with the biofeedback specialist ……………………….is bolstered, which
helps the kids deal with toxic stress
- There are two major
problems those who try to provide services like those listed above have to
tackle and they are………………………………………….
13 Money is a problem because………………………….and
doctors are a problem because they don’t……..
14 According to Perrin, if poverty combating
legislation is passed, people will be a lot ……………
TEXT 2: HOW BEING POOR MAKES YOU SICK KEY
AND TEACHER’S NOTES
This simple and beautifully organized text
delineates the link between poverty and major mental health issues, mood disorders
and cognitive skills. It also provides solutions in the last part. This wealth
of information should lead to a wonderful writing task where all students have
learnt can be brought together
- A year-long membership to Hubway (Boston’s bike
sharing program)
- Practical, good for you
- Time concerns, lack of amenities, security
concerns
- A healthy diet costs 1.5 dollars more per day
than an unhealthy one.
- Certain genes to be turned on or off; gene
expression
- These adverse childhood experiences jab at the
brain at critical moments of its development and changing the architecture
of key brain structures
- Physical scarcity; long term planning
- Long term anxiety and mood control issues,
problems with long term planning, mental health issues (anxiety and
depression), depleted self control, bad habits
- A serious medical problem
- Possible Answer: it is trying to address the
problems that will have long term effects on their psychological and
physical health
- The prefrontal cortex circuit
- Payment and culture obstacles
- Medicaid and other insurance don’t cover many of
these services; screen for toxic stress and other poverty indicators
- Healthier
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