listen to a passage 3 times and fill in the blanks based on what you hear. In recent years, doctors have focused on the growing rate of diabetes among children and young people. But the most common kind of diabetes, type II, is more 1)_____ as people grow older and gain more weight. Before you know it, there is more fat around the waist and hips than you remembered. The statistics are 2)_____enough to make you want to stop eating immediately. The World Health Organization say by 2015, more than two billion adults will be overweight and 700 million will 3)______ obese. Being overweight or obese is an expanding problems in many countries. Less physical activity and foods high in fat and sugar are considered as causes for this global 4)______. Some researchers studied how body composition, the 5)______of lean tissue to fat, and increased weight affected the risk of diabetes in more than 4,000 adults, aged 65 and older. At the beginning of the study, none of the participants had been 6)______ with diabetes. Researchers assess the relationship between being overweight and the disease through 7)_______ their body mass index. According to researchers, even among adults over the age of 75, having a higher body mass index 8)______ a considerably higher risk of diabetes. Men who were obese had a five and a half times higher risk of diabetes than those who were just overweight. For women, the risk was about three and a half times higher. As hard as it might be, making sure your weight stays at a healthy level is the only way to keep the risk of diabetes down. The results ______ the importance of weight control during the middle and later stages of life 10)________ reducing diabetes risks. The study has sent a warning signal to those who don’t think that there is much connection between their waists and their health.