Problem: Doctors say obesity,also known as severe overweight,is a complex condition.A doctor may advise medical interventions in addition to changes in behavior.But experts say the more successful weightloss plans include a wellbalanced diet and exercise.

People who want to avoid weight gain have to balance the number of calories they eat with the number of calories they use.To lose weight,you can reduce the number of calories you take in,or increase the number you use,or both.Experts at the National Institutes of Health say to lose weight,a person should do some moderate or intensive physical exercise most days of the week.This could include fast walking,sports or strength training.

A recent study looked at four of the most popular dieting plans in the United States.Researchers at Stanford University studied more than three hundred overweight women,mostly in their thirties or forties.Each woman went on one of the four plans:Atkins,The Zone,Ornish or LEARN.The women attended diet classes and received written information about the food plans.At the end of a year,the women on the Atkins diet had lost the most,more than four and a half kilograms on average.

Christopher Gardner led the study,reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. He said the Atkins diet may be more successful because of its simple message to lower the intake of sugar.Also,he said the advice to increase protein in the diet leads to more satisfying meals.

But last week,another report suggested that only a small minority of people have longterm success in dieting.Researchers at the University of California found that most dieters regained their lost weight within five years.And often they gained back even more.But those who kept the weight off generally were the ones who exercised.
1. how many people were in the study?
2. were they both male and female?
3. what gender were they?
4. what was it about?
5. less than 10 of them?
6. exactly how many?
7. were they named?
8. what was one?
9. another?
10. where was it conducted?
11. by who?
12. from where?
13. who was the leader?
14. were the results published?
15. where?
16. was one plan more successful?
17. which one?
18. why?
19. which is?
20. any other reason?
21. what?
Answer: 1. more than three hundred
2. No
3. female
4. dieting plans
5. Yes
6. four
7. Yes
8. Atkins
9. The Zone
10. the United States
11. Researchers
12. Stanford University
13. Christopher Gardner
14. Yes
15. the Journal of the American Medical Association.
16. Yes
17. the Atkins diet
18. because of its simple message
19. to lower the intake of sugar.
20. Yes
21. to increase protein in the diet leads to more satisfying meals.

Q: Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) -- Oscar Pistorius prosecutor Gerrie Nel wants the South African track star sent for independent psychiatric evaluation, he said Monday, in a move that could delay the athlete's murder trial for a month or more.

A psychiatrist testified Monday that Pistorius has an anxiety disorder stemming from his double amputation as an infant and his unstable parents.

He's depressed now and feeling guilt from having killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, defense witness Dr. Meryl Vorster said on the stand.

Nel responded by comparing the athlete's mental state to post-traumatic stress disorder and saying the law required psychiatric observation.

The prosecutor's extremely unusual move is essentially an effort to maneuver the court into considering an insanity or "capacity" defense even though the athlete's legal team is not mounting one, CNN legal analyst Kelly Phelps said. Phelps, a criminologist and law lecturer at the University of Cape Town, said she had never seen this done before.

Pistorius' lead defense lawyer, Barry Roux, is fighting back, saying Nel is oversimplifying the law.

The question was left unresolved when court adjourned for the day. Nel is due to submit his application on Tuesday after both sides have finished questioning Vorster.

The psychiatrist took the stand Monday morning for the defense, going all the way back to when the disabled sprinter was 11 months old.

Pistorius would have experienced the amputation of both of his legs below the knee at that time as a "traumatic assault" because he was too young to speak or understand what was happening to him, she said in court.

Answer the following questions:
1. What Oscar been accused of?
2. Who is prosecuting that?
3. What he wants?
4. When he said that?
5. Will it delay the procedure?
6. For how long?
7. Who is Oscars's attorney?
8. What he said Nel oversimplified?
9. Was that issue resolved?
10. What nel had to do for that?
11. After what?
12. Who is she?
13. What is her profession?
14. When she took stand?
15. For whom?
16. Is Oscar a disable person?
17. What happened to him?
18. Why?
19. Was he able to express it when he was young?
20. What was the earliest age the psychiatrist could describe him?
A: 1. murder
2. Gerrie Nel
3. him sent for independent psychiatric evaluation
4. Monday
5. yes
6. a month or more
7. Barry Roux
8. the law
9. no
10. submit his application
11. both sides have finished questioning Vorster
12. a defense witness
13. a psychiatrist
14. Monday morning
15. the defense
16. yes
17. the amputation of both of his legs below the knee
18. unknown
19. no
20. 1 months old

Problem: CHAPTER VIII

SHADOW HAMILTON'S CONFESSION

"I simply can't understand it, Phil. Gus Plum was frightened very much, or he would never have offered me a hundred dollars to keep quiet."

Dave and his chum were strolling along the edge of the campus, an hour after the conversation recorded in the last chapter. The boy from the poorhouse had told Phil all that had occurred.

"It is certainly the most mysterious thing I ever heard of, outside of this mystery about Billy Dill," answered Phil. "Plum has been up to something wrong, but just what, remains to be found out."

"And what about Shadow Hamilton?"

"I can't say anything about Shadow. I never thought he would do anything that wasn't right."

"Nor I. What would you advise?"

"Keep quiet and await developments. Something is bound to come to the surface, sooner or later."

"Hello, you fellows, where are you bound?" came in a cry, and looking up they saw a well-known form approaching.

"Ben!" cried Dave, rushing up to the newcomer and shaking hands warmly. "When did you come in? And how are all the folks at Crumville? Did you happen to see Professor Potts and the Wadsworths?"

"One question at a time, please," answered Ben Basswood, as he shook hands with Phil. "Yes, I saw them all, and everybody wants to be remembered to you. Jessie sends her very sweetest regards----"

"Oh, come now, no fooling," interrupted Dave, blushing furiously. "Tell us the plain truth."

"Well, she sent her best regard, anyway. And all the others did the same. The professor is getting along finely. You'd hardly know him now, he looks so hale and hearty. It did him a world of good to go to live with the Wadsworths."
1. Who was frightened?
2. how much did he recieve?
3. for what?
4. where were they walking?
5. for how long
6. who came from the poor house?
7. who did the boy speak too?
8. was there mystery?
9. surrounding who?
10. did they know what plum was doing?
11. was he known for bad deeds?
12. who saw them all?
13. who saw them all?
14. coud dave be fooled?
15. who demanded the truth?
16. who sends her regards?
17. who was the professor?
18. who was shaking hands?
19. how does the professor look?
20. who did he live with?
Answer:
1. Gus Plum
2. $100
3. to keep quiet
4. along the edge of the campus
5. an hour
6. Gus
7. Dave
8. Yes
9. Billy Dill
10. No
11. Yes
12. Ben
13. Ben saw them all
14. No
15. Dave
16. Jessie
17. Professor Potts
18. Ben and Phil
19. hale and hearty
20. the Wadsworths