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Health diseases
Learn About Infectious and non infectious diseases
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Your body fights to stay in _________ all the time. | Balence |
| Every system of your body, including your ________________________________, is constantly struggling to maintain normal functioning. | body temperature and your need for rest |
| Infectious | caused by germs that spread from one person to another |
| Noninfectious | caused by heredity, the environment,and/or a persons lifestyle. |
| How can a teenager begin to prevent both types of diseases? | Wash Hands Regularly Get Rest Avoid Certain Foods Water Get Regular Exercise Eat Fresh Veggies and Fruits Avoid Smoking Alcohol and Other Drugs |
| Why don’t teens act upon healthy lifestyle choices even when they know about them? | Because they don't care |
| Viruses | much smaller than bacteria while bacteria produce toxins in your body viruses attack individual cells |
| Bacteria | tiny single celled organisms |
| Bacteria | strep throat, pneumonia |
| when you take an antibiotic to fight bad bacteria it ... | also kill the good or bad bacteria |
| Viruses | Flu ebola |
| Ways you can get sick | contact with airborne germs contacts with a person contact with animals contact with an object |
| Incubation period | from the time you become infected to the time you develop symptoms The incubation period is the most infectious time of the disease and is often called the contagious period |
| Body Mass Index | a number calculated from your weight and height |
| Calorie | the energy provided to our body through food and beverages. |
| Cholesterol | the most common type of steroid in your body |
| Glucose | the main type of sugar in the blood, it is the major source of energy for the cell’s in your body |
| Glycogen | a substance put into the body’s tissues that stores carbohydrates |
| Glycemic Index | the system that ranks foods on a scale of 1 to 1000 based on their effect on blood sugar levels. |
| Insulin | a hormone that lowers the level of glucose in the blood |
| Obesity | the condition of being overweight |
| Pancreas | a gland, situated near the stomach, that produces a digestive fluid into the intestine through one or more ducts and also produces the hormone insulin |
| Saturated Fats | fat molecules that have no double blonds between carbon molecules because they have hydrogen molecules. solid at room temperature |
| Unsaturated Fats | a fat in which one or more pairs of electrons in the atoms making up the fat molecule form a bond with a pair of electrons from another atom. monounsaturated and polyunsaturated |
| Trans Fat | trans-fatty-acid - manufactured fats created during a process called hydrogenation. it stabilizes polyunsaturated oils to prevent them from becoming rancid and to keep them solid at room temperature. dangerous for the heart. |
| food labels | you look at the info on the nutritional facts on the food or drink |
| It will tell you ________________ 1 serving is labeled on the sheet | amount per serving |
| times that by how many are _____________ there are and thats the total amount | amount per serving |
Created by:
Caroline Z
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