B7-Non-Cominicable Disease Flashcards
Smoking
The key chemicals are nicotine, carbon monoxide and tar.
Effect of smoking on babies
Can cause baby to have asthma and other respiratory infections.
Effect of tar on the body
Makes lungs go from pink to black. Also cause people to be more likely to contract bronchitis
Effects of a unhealthy diet
More likely to get type 2 diabetes or get overweight.
Effect of regular exercise
Have a healthy heart and lungs
Effect of alcohol
Short term-Slower reactions, reflexes and cause people to think more slowly.
Effect of alcohol in high dose
You can become unconscious, in a stat of coma or even death.
Long term affects of alcohol
Damage you liver , making it more difficult for the liver to digest the alcohol.
Alcohol in pregnancy
Damages the developing liver. Baby can be underweight, some facial deformations, hearing, kidney, lung and heart problems.