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B1 - Keeping Healthy Flashcards

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Give two reasons why some people can eat more food than other without damaging their health.

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  • People need different amounts of energy.
  • Metabolic rates vary in each person.

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How does exercise effect the amount of energy the body needs?

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The more exercise the body does, the more energy it needs.

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What does the body use carbohydrates, fats and proteins for?

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Release the energy needed to live and build new cells.

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What are the seven groups of a balanced diet?

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Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, fibre, water.

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Give five factors that effect the amount of energy the body requires.

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  • Gender
  • Age
  • Amount of exercise
  • Pregnancy
  • Climate
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Define malnutrition

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Caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that one does eat.

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Define metabolic rate.

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The rate of chemical reactions in cells.

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What happens if the body receives too much energy?

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The excess energy is stored as fat.

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Give four health problems that obesity can cause.

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  • Arthritis
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • High blood pressure
  • Heart pressure
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Give two examples of inherited factors that can affect your health?

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Metabolic rate and cholesterol level.

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Give three ways of losing weight.

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  • Reduce energy intake.
  • Increase energy use by doing exercise.
  • Combination of the above.

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How can you maintain the correct balance of cholesterol?

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Eat a balanced diet.

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Give three reasons why people who exercise are generally healthier than those that don’t.

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You are less likely to be overweight.

You have more muscle tissue which increases the metabolic rate. Exercise lowers blood cholesterol levels.

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What are pathogens?

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Disease causing microbes.

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How do bacteria cause disease?

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Bacteria can produce toxins which make you feel ill.

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How do viruses cause disease?

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Viruses damage cells as they reproduce.

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Give three common symptoms of disease.

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High temperature, headaches, rashes

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How did it Ignaz Semmelweis change the way we look at disease?

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He recognised the importance of hand washing in preventing the spread of disease.

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What is droplet infection?

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Coughing, sneezing or talking expels tiny droplets full of pathogens from the breathing system.

20
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What is direct contact infection?

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Some diseases are spread by direct contact with the skin such as STIs

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How does the skin act as a barrier?

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It prevents bacteria and viruses from reaching the tissues that can be infected. If the skin’s cut, clotting will take place to repair the damaged area and a scab will form stopping pathogens getting in through the wound.

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Give four ways that a pathogen can enter your body.

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Droplet infection, direct contact, contaminated food and drink or through a break in your skin.

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Give the two types of white blood cells.

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Phagocytes and lymphocytes.

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How do lymphocytes act to protect the body against pathogens?

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Lymphocytes produce antibodies by reading the pathogen’s antigen. The antibody triggers the phagocytes to act against the pathogen.

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How does the breathing system prevent the entrance of pathogens?

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Mucus covers the lining of the lungs and tubes trapping pathogens. The mucus is then moved out of the body or into the gut where the acid destroys the microbes.

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How do phagocytes act to protect the body against pathogens?

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Phagocytes engulf the microbe and digest them.

27
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How do some white blood cells stop you feeling ill?

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Producing antitoxins cancels out the toxins released by pathogens.

28
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Why can antibiotics not be used against viruses?

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Viruses reproduce inside cells making it difficult to develop drugs that can destroy viruses without damaging the cells.

29
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What is a medicine?

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Medicines usually don’t act against the pathogen but instead make the person feel better.

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How do antibiotics work?

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They damage the bacterial cells without harming the body cells.

31
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How is it possible to produce an uncontaminated culture of bacteria?

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Using sterilised Petri dishes, agar, inoculating loop and sealing the lid, leave the culture at 25*

32
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Why do schools not incubate bacteria at more than 25*C?

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To reduce the risk of harmful pathogens growing.

33
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What is antibiotic resistance?

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Resistance to a specific type of antibiotic as a result of natural selection.

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How can antibiotic resistance be prevented?

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Not overusing antibiotics.

35
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Why is mutation in bacteria and viruses a problem?

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New strains of disease can spread rapidly and vaccinations may not be effective against the new strain.

36
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How can the spread of resistant pathogens be reduced?

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Only using antibiotics when needed, specific antibiotics for specific bacteria, hand washing, isolation of patients with antibiotic resistant bacteria, clean hospitals.

37
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Give three examples of how vaccines are made.

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  • Through the use of dead pathogens.
  • Through the use of inactive pathogens.
  • Using a pathogen’s antigen
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How does the immune system work?

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White blood cells produce antibodies to destroy pathogens your body can then respond rapidly to future infections by the same pathogen making the body immune to the disease

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What is an antigen?

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A distinct chemical on a microorganism allowing the immune system to distinguish between them.

40
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How does having a disease make your immune?

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Your immune system “remembers” the antigen of the microbe meaning the same antibody can be made quicker.

41
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Give an example of a vaccine.

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MMR which protects against measles, mumps and rubella

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How do vaccines work?

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By giving the body dead or an active pathogens the white blood cells develop the right antibodies against the pathogen without getting ill?

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What does a healthy diet contain?

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Everything needed to keep the body healthy.

44
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Give two examples in which vaccines have been brought into disrepute.

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The whooping cough vaccine and the MMR vaccine.

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Thank you and good luck!

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