Keeping Healthy Flashcards
What is metabolic rate?
Metabolic rate is the rate in which chemical reactions take place.
What are the main food groups?
Carbohydrates, Fats and Protein.
What can metabolic rate be affected by?
Proportion of muscle to fat.
Amount of exercise you do.
It can be genetic.
What can an imbalanced diet do?
Too little food can lead to being underweight.
Too Mitch food can lead to being overweight.
What are the main micro-organism called?
Bacteria, Virus and Fungi.
What defends us agents infection?
White blood cells.
What do antibiotics do?
It kills bacteria.
What do antibodies do?
The bind to pathogens and destroy them.
How does vaccination work?
You are injected with a dead pathogen. You produce the antibodies to protect yourself from this disease. Then the re injection you with it agen then the White blood cells know the antibodie and produce it quickly.
