Question | Answer |
What does it mean to be unhealthy? | Poor diet, little or no exercise, overweight |
What are unhealthy choices? | Fast food, not exercising, sitting around, smoking, alcohol consumption |
what determines what is unhealthy? | Gender, age, pregnancy |
what does an unhealthy lifestyle lead to? | Alcohol is absorbed into the blood of the mother and baby |
Osteoporosis | Disease in bones, bones become brittle, break easily due to lack of calcium, common in women, diet and exercise help in prevention |
Obesity | Having an excess amount of body fat |
Sedentary | Type of lifestyle with no or irregular physical activity |
Cardiovascular and Heart Disease | Disease of the heart or blood vessels |
what are the chances in getting Cardiovascular and Heart Disease? | Not exercising, high blood pressure, overweight, hereditary, affects older people |
Diabetes | Affects the way the body uses glucose |
Type 1 Diabetes | No insulin to allow glucose in the cells to make energy; glucose will build up in the blood |
Type 2 Diabetes | Body makes insulin but it can't always get glucose into the cells so pancreas puts more insulin in the blood stream which results in over working the pancreas |
Anorexia | Eating disorder, very afraid of gaining weight or things their body is too fat |
Bulimia | Binge eating and then purging |