8. **Obesity** and heart disease can be exacerbated by excessive fast-food consumption.
A. Being underweight
B. Being overweight
C. Child malnutrition
D. Famine stricken
9. People can fight **infection** more effectively if they eat a nutritious diet.
A. injection
B. disease
C. hygiene
D. digestion
10. Many people wear protective clothing when they go outside to **avoid** sunburn.
A. recommence
B. encourage
C. facilitate
D. block
V. Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
1. Stretching will relax your muscles and **prevent** your joints.
A. allow
B. avoid
C. limit
D. protest
2. After receiving hundreds of job **rejections**, I decided that I needed to do something about my obesity.
A. arrival
B. approval
C. refusal
D. rebuttal
3. I discovered a website that advertised a quick and easy way to **lose** weight in one month.
A. suffer
B. treat
C. maintain
D. gain
