The key answer of exercise 5
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10 - Keep it in mind for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning
Question
With your partner, use the phrases from Exercise 3 and your own words to retell parts of the article.
Answer
Mindfulness therapy can help people suffering from depression. It can break the downward spiral of depressed moods accompanied by negative thoughts. The negative thoughts that come with the bad moods spark neural connections and thus future mood swings can trigger symptoms of depression. Mindfulness can stop this by helping sufferers become more aware of patterns of thought.
Western medicine has been good at eradicating infectious diseases, which has increased life expectancy a lot and has improved mortality. Western medicine is only really any good at dealing with people in excruciating pain or with something life-threatening. It’s not so good at dealing with those who have low-level complaints.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) helps them more. TCM is also better at relieving minor conditions.