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Flashcards by Harry Ingles7744, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Harry Ingles7744
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| Question | Answer |
| What are the food types on the eatwell plate? | Carbohydrates , Protien, Fats and sugars, Dairy Products, Fruit and Vegetables |
| What happens if you don't have a balanced diet? | You become malnouished. Which is when you do not have enough the correct minerals and vitamins in your body. |
| What problems can obesity have in the long term? | Type 2 Diabetes and other health problems to do with weight |
| LDL or HDL, Which is the worse type of Cholesterol? | LDL , or Low Density lipoprotien is the worse type, and causes heart attacks as it blocks ateries and the heart has to work too hard to pump enough blood |
| How can a person lower their cholesterol(LDL) levels? | Exercise, eating a more balanced diet with less cholesterol rich foods such as butter and other foods high in fat. |
| How to pathogens make you feel unwell? | Either by releasing toxins(poisons) that make you feel unwell, or by damaging cells. |
| What did semmelwiess do to try and prevent disease? | Asked his staff to wash their hands between patients. This worked as it stopped the disease from being tranferred via the dirt on people hands. |
| How are many pathogens prevented from entering the body? | The skin stops many pathogens from entering as the pathogens cannot pass through a medium that does not have small enough holes in it. |
| How do white blood cells enter the body? | 1. They can ingest them, and kill them by digesting them 2. They produce anti-bodies which help destroy specific pathogens 3.They produce anti-toxins that counter the toxins released by the pathogens |
| Why are antibiotics only able to kill bacteria? | Viruses are inside the body cells. |
| Why do some pathogens spread rapidly | They can mutate which makes them different to stop . So the memory cells cannot recognise the pathogen. This makes them spread rapidly and cause a pandemic, and nobody is immune it instantly. |
| How does natural selection cause some pathogens become immune to certain antibiotics? | They mutate to not be affected by them,. |
| What is meant by vaccination? | Dead or weakened forms of the bacteria are injected into the blood to make the white blood cells create anti-bodies and memory cells so that it becomes immune to that specific bacteria. |
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