Title of Article: Soccer is Good For Your Heart
Author: Joshua Wortman
Article Source: Health and Fitness News
Area of Science: Physics
Summary: In the article it talks about how a new study shows that soccer is the best way to stay fit, normalize blood pressure, and reduce risk of stroke for people who suffer from hypertension. Hypertension is when you have a high blood pressure and it says that most of the people that play soccer have that condition. There was a study that consisted of 33 men with ages for 33 to 54 and one of these man suffers from hypertension. In the study you were either placed in one of two groups, the first group had a two 1 - hour soccer session each week and the second group would just go to a physician and go on a diet and physical activity. They did that for 6 months and the results were that the group with the soccer training experienced a greater reduction in average mean blood pressure than the other group.
Facts: 1. Normalizes blood pressure and reduces risk of stroke
2. Shows improvements in maximal oxygen uptake
3. Soccer improves fitness and burns fat
4. Soccer helps more than medication
5. Combining advice from the doctor along with soccer can result in better health
Opinion: I found this article really interesting because soccer is my favorite sport and reading about all the good benefits this sport can give you made me have more interest in the sport. Soccer is said to be a good way to do cardio and it improves your fitness and helps burn fat. Over all I really enjoyed reading this article due to the fact that I like this sport and being able to learn about it was good.
Vocabulary: 1. Hypertension - abnormally high blood pressure
2. Cardiovascular- of or relating to the heart and blood vessels
3. Physician - a person qualified to practice medicine
4. Infarction- the obstruction of the blood supply to an organ or region of tissue,
typically by a thrombus or embolus, causing local death of the tissue.
5. Distinctively - having a special quality
