Food-related Diseases - Causes & Prevention

Question 1

What is food nutrition?

Answer 1

The study of food and how we use them

Question 2

What are nutrients?

Answer 2

Chemicals within food

Question 3

What is diet?

Answer 3

Foods you eat everyday

Question 4

What is malnutrition?

Answer 4

Poor/bad nutrition

Question 5

What is kwashiorkor?

Answer 5

Protein/energy malnutrition

Question 6

What is marasmus?

Answer 6

Protein/energy malnutrition

Question 7

What can marasmus or kwashiorkor cause?

Answer 7

A swollen stomach

Question 8

What is over-nutrition?

Answer 8

Too much nutrition/food

Question 9

How is obesity caused?

Answer 9

Over-nutrition

Question 10

How is Type 2 diabetes caused?

Answer 10

Too much sugar - your body is so used to insulin that it become ineffective

Question 11

How is coronary heart disease caused?

Answer 11

Too much cholesterol - build up of fats in the arteries

Question 12

How is cerebrovascular disease caused?

Answer 12

High cholesterol
High blood pressure
Diabetes
Smoking

Question 13

What diseases cause 1/3 deaths worldwide?

Answer 13

Coronary heart disease + cerebrovascular disease

Question 14

How can cancers possibly be caused?

Answer 14

Maybe by too much food

Question 15

What causes osteoporosis?

Answer 15

Lack of calcium

Question 16

What happens in osteoporosis?

Answer 16

Weak bones

Question 17

How are bones composed?

Answer 17

There is a protein matrix that contains calcium phosphate crystals

Question 18

How does Vitamin D help the bones?

Answer 18

It puts the calcium phosphate crystals into the bones

Question 19

What is imbalance?

Answer 19

Incorrect proportions of food

Question 20

What causes scurvy?

Answer 20

Lack of Vitamin C/ Ascorbic acid (the same thing)

Question 21

Why does a Vitamin C deficiency cause scurvy?

Answer 21

It makes collagen

Question 22

What causes rickets?

Answer 22

Lack of vitamin D

Question 23

What is rickets?

Answer 23

Children get soft bones that stay an abnormal shape

Question 24

How is megaloblastic anaemia caused?

Answer 24

B12 deficiency

Question 25

What can be used to treat B12 deficiency?

Answer 25

cyanocobalamin

Question 26

What are the risk factors for cancer?

Answer 26

Sugary foods - cause obesity
Too much alcohol
Obesity
Smoking
Overexposure to sun/radiation
Red meat
Processed meat

Question 27

What can prevent cancer?

Answer 27

A good diet - whole grains, pulses, nuts and seeds (fibre)

Question 28

Why is smoked meat bad?

Answer 28

It contains nitrites and nitrates which changes the portion causing bowel tumours

Question 29

What do photochemical do?

Answer 29

Help prevent cancers, heart diseases and are anti-oxidants

Question 30

What are the risk factors for Type 2 diabetes?

Answer 30

Over 40 and white
Over 25 and South Asian - african has higher risk
Obesity - hip/waste ratio
Family history
Coronary heart disease

Question 31

How can you prevent Type 2 diabetes?

Answer 31

Good diet - less sugar
Physical activity
Healthy weight

Question 32

What is coronary heart disease?

Answer 32

Blockage or narrowing of heart arteries

Question 33

What is cerebrovascular disease?

Answer 33

Blockage or narrowing of brain arteries

Question 34

What are risk factors of CHD and CVD?

Answer 34

High blood pressure
High blood cholesterol