It provides the right balance
of different you need and
the right amount of energy
What makes up a healthy diet?
Fats and carbohydrates
Provide energy for
your body chemistry to
function correctly
Keep your
body
temperature
at 37 degrees
Excessive fats and
carbohydrates can
lead to obesity
A common disorder in developed countries
Having a
mass of at
least 20%
greater than
the max
recommended
body mass
Overeating, lack
of sufficient
exercise, bad
diet and
hormonal
problems
Can lead to
arthritis, type 2
diabetes, high
blood pressure,
and heart
disease
Protein
Build cells, grow new tissue, repair & replace cells
Mineral ions and vitamins
Small amounts
Healthy functioning of the body
Mineral salts containing things
like sodium, calcium,
potassium and chloride ions
Too much salt (sodium
chloride) can cause high
blood pressure & heart
problems
Fibre
keeps everything running
smoothly in your digestive
system
Malnourishment
When a person's diet is not balanced
A malnourished
person is not
necessarily thin - an
obese person could
be malnourished if
they only ate junk
food as this is not
providing them a
balanced diet.
MALNOURISHMENT
AND STARVATION
ARE NOT THE
SAME THING!!!!!!
Losing weight
A person loses
mass when the
energy content of
the food taken in
is lower than the
amount of
energy used by
the body
Energy
Metabolism/Metabolic rate
How fast the chemical reactions in your body take place
This is your metabolism
These reactions are fuelled by energy
The amount of
exercise you do
makes your
metabolism vary
Energy used by your body
Exercise increases the amount of energy used by your body
Athletes or people
doing heavy manual
labour need a higher
energy (calorie) intake
The amount of fat
and carbohydrates
you eat should be
adjusted
Defence against disease
Pathogens
Microorganisms that cause infectious disease
Bacteria
What they do
Very small cells
Rapidly reproduce
Cell division
Produce toxins
What makes you feel ill
Antibiotics
Help cure bacterial disease
Kill infectious bacteria
CAN'T TREAT VIRUSES
VIRUSES LIVE &
REPRODUCE INSIDE
THE CELLS
CAN'T TREAT THEM
WITHOUT DAMAGING
THE CELLS
Antibiotics like
penicillin kill or
prevent the growth of
harmful pathogens
They kill the bacteria
but not your own body
cells
Different antibiotics target
different bacteria
Specific bacteria should be
treated by specific antibiotics
Antibiotic resistant strains
Overuse and inappropriate use
has increased the rate of
development of antibiotic
resistant strains
Important not to over use antibiotics
Many strains mutate
which causes
stronger, more
resilient strains of
bacteria to survive as
a result of natural
selection
If infections are treated with
antibiotics then resistant bacteria
will survive
This means
resistant bacteria
can survive and
reproduce to infect
other people
This will then spread
rapidly as people are not
immune to it and there is
no treatment
Viruses
NOT cells
Smaller than bacteria
They damage the cells in which they reproduce
They replicate by
invading a cell and
then using the cell's
genetic machinery
they reproduce
themselves as copies
of the original virus
The invaded cell then bursts releasing lots of new viruses
The cell damage is
what makes you
feel ill as your body
fights back to
make new 'good'
cells to replace
those destroyed by
the virus
Can't be treated by antibiotics
Fungi
Biggest microorganisms
Live in colonies
Digest material externally
Absorb the nutrients from outside their cells
Can be useful or harmful
How our body deals with it
Has defense systems
Skin, hair, mucus stop
pathogens entering the
body
Skin helps as when you
get a cut you get a scab
over it (small sections of
cells called platelets help
the blood to clot
Tears contain a chemical
which kills bacteria on the
surface of the eyes
The stomach contains HCl
acid which kills pathogenic
bacteria
WHITE BLOOD CELLS
Ingesting
WBCs surround invasive microorganisms
and break them up and ingest them
Produce antibodies
An antibody is created by WBCs when
they encounter a 'foreign' antigen on a
pathogen they don't recognise. They
produce antibodies which lock onto the
antigens of the pathogen
The antibodies produced are
specific to that type of antigen -
they will not lock onto any other
type of antigen
ANTIGEN
All invading cells have unique
molecules on their surface -
these are antigens
One of the most important parts of the IMMUNE SYSTEM
Immune system
Kicks in when a pathogen gets inside your body
Produces specific antibodies to kill a particular pathogen
Does this quicker if you have been vaccinated
Injected into you
with a inactive or
weakened form
of a pathogen
The body starts an immune response
Lymphocytes
produce
antibodies to
fight the
pathogen
The body
remembers
how to
fight the
infection so
if you do
get infected
you can
fight it off
quicker
CULTURING MICROORGANISMS
You should
sterilise everything
- petri dish,
innocullating loop
(by passing
through a flame)
and agar jelly
The lid of the petri dish should be secured by tape
It should not be incubated
over 25 degrees to stop
harmful pathogens growing
Present throughout your body and always to hand
If your WBC count is low you
are more susceptible to disease
& infection
Produces antitoxins
These counteract the toxic effect of
the toxins released by the pathogen.
They are very specific chemicals
Nervous system
any changes
in your
surroundings
is potentially
a detectable
stimulus for
your sensory
organs
sensory
organs contain
receptors that
are sensitive
to stimuli
The nervous system controls our REFLEXES
Receptor: sensitive
to changes in
conditions -
stimulated by a
stimulus
Sensory neurone: the
nerve cell connected
to the receptor - a
message is sent
down it by the
receptor cell
Synapse: the junction
between two neurones
to keep the signal
strong by diffusing
chemicals - a message
is passed onto it by
the sensory neurone
Relay neurone: the nerve cell found in
the spinal chord - a message is passed
down the relay neurone by the synapse
Motor neurone: the nerve cell that sends
the impulse to the effector - the relay
neurone passes the message down the
motor neurone
Effector: the organ affected
by a nerve impulse as a
response to a stimulus -
the message is passed by
the motor neurone to the
effector
Internal conditions
Water content
lungs when we breathe out
skin when we sweat
kidneys in the urine
Ion content
skin when we sweat
kidneys in urine
Temperature
brain keeps our body at 37 degrees
Blood sugar levels
via insulin
diabetes
when your body
cannot produce
enough insulin to tell
your body to reduce
glucose
Pancreas - controls the use of 2 hormones
Insulin - hormone secreted by the pancreas
Causes liver
to remove
any glucose
not needed
after
digestion
Glycogen - the liver
converts soluble glucose
into glycogen to store
Glucagon - second hormone secreted by the pancreas
tells the liver to convert glycogen back
into glucose for use in respiration
Hormones
Menstrual cycle
Plant hormones
a hormone is a chemical
messenger secreted by a gland
carried to the effector cell by the
blood