Keeping Healthy - Complete, I believe.

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This topic covers: diet and exercise; weight problems; inheritance, exercise and health; pathogens and disease; defence mechanisms; using drugs to treat disease; growing and investigating bacteria; changing pathogens; and immunity. If there is something missing from this please let me know what and I will try to fix it.
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Topic one Diet and Exercise
What does balanced diet contain? Carbohydrates Proteins Fats/Lipids Vitamins and Minerals Fibre Water
What is malnourishment? Where someone doesn't have all of the required forms of sustenance for a balanced diet.
What factors increase average energy intake? Male Young (Teenager) Active Cold enviroment
What factors decrease average energy intake? Female Older (+65) Inactive Warm envrioment
What is metabolic rate? The rate that chemical reactions take place in the body, specifically in the cytoplasm.
Topic two Weight problems
Underweight Being underweight can lead to a variety of problems, like deficiency diseases which are due to a lack of vitamins and minerals. What causes someone to become underweight? Being underweight can be caused by a number of things: Lack of food Anorexia
Obesity This happens when you take in more energy than you need, it is then stored as fat. What are the negative side effects of obesity? Negative side effects of this include: Arthritis High blood pressure Heart disease Type two diabetes
How does one lose weight? Reduce energy intake Increase energy output (For best results, combine both)
Topic three Inheritance, Exercise and Health
What do people inherit? Physical characteristics, like eye colour, are not all you inherit from you parents, you also inherit things like metabolic rate.
Cholesterol is used for, making cell membranes and making hormones How many types of cholestrol are there? There are two forms of cholesterol LDL (Which can cause medical problems,) and HDL (a much healthier variant)
What effect does exercise on health? Can help lose weight Consistent exercise can increase your metabolic rate Can balance cholesterol levels
Topic Four Pathogens and Disease
What is a pathogen? A pathogen is a microorganism that causes an infectious disease.
Who was Semmelweis, and what was his contribution towards stopping the spread of pathogens? Semmelweis was a doctor in the 1850s, he advised doctors and nurses to wash their hands in between patients to reduce the spread of pathogens.
What is a bacteria? A bacteria is a single celled organism that reproduces and produces toxins to kill off cells.
What is a virus? A virus is a microorganism even smaller than a bacterium, it infiltrates cells and destroys them by filling them with it's duplicates.
Topic five Defence mechanisms
Droplet infection Pathogens released into the air through coughs and sneezes.
Direct contact Contact with skin
Contaminated Undercooked meat or dirty water
Break in the skin Pathogens enter through a cut, or unclean equipment
What are your bodies main defences? Skin: a barrier to prevent entry. Scabs: If the skin is cut then blood clots to form a barrier. Lunges and tubes: produce mucus to trap pathogens. Stomach: Produces HCl which destroys pathogens.
White blood cell patrol units, what can they do? They digest them, they produce antibodies, they produce antitoxins,
Topic Six Using drugs to treat disease
What do painkillers actually do? (e.g. paracetamol) Painkillers deal with the symptoms of the problem, not the problem itself, (e.g. sore throats and headaches)
What do antibiotics do? (e.g. penicillin) These drugs are used to treat bacterial infections, they kill the bacterial cells without damaging the patient's cells. (Antibiotics don't work on viruses because they hide within our cells)
Topic seven Growing and investigating bacteria
Why do it? Scientists culture microorganisms in labs so we can learn their weaknesses and come up with more efficient medicine to combat them.
What is mutation? Mutation is a change in the bacteria's DNA which can cause a pathogen to grow and become more dangerous/effective.
Steps in inoculation, (Growing bacteria) 1 Sterilised equipment before hand. 2 Place inoculating loop through the bunsen flame. 3 Place loop in bacteria culture and then streak across agar plate 4 Seal the lip with tape, but not completely as that will lead to anaerobic conditions which will allow the bacteria to mutate. 5 Then incubate
Why is overusing antibiotics dangerous? Overusing antibiotics is dangerous because microorganisms can evolve past them if exposed to them to often.
Topic eight Immunity
How do you make someone immune to a pathogen? 1 A dead or weakened pathogen is injected to the patient. 2 This triggers an immune response, your white blood cells start creating possible antibodies until it hits the right one. 3 This way if the patient meets this same pathogen again than the WBC's can respond much quicker and create the right antigens.

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