What can malnutrition caused by a diet high in sugar and fat lead to?
Obesity
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What is obesity?
A condition in which someone is overweight for their height and has a BMI above 30
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What happens to the body when you are obese?
Large amounts of fat are formed under skin and around organs
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What can too much fat increase the risk of?
Many diseases e.g. cardiovascular diseases
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What is a cardiovascular disease?
A disease in which the heart or circulatory system does not function properly
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What is one sign of cardiovascular diseases?
High blood pressure
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What can high blood pressure lead to?
Heart pain or even heart attack
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What does tobaccos smoke contain?
Many harmful substances that can damage the lungs when they are breathed in
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What are some substances absorbed by?
Lungs
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Where are the substances taken then?
To the blood and are transported around the body
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What can these substances do to the body?
Damage blood vessels, increase blood pressure, make blood vessel narrower & increases the risk of blood clot forming in blood vessel
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What can these all lead to?
Cardiovascular disease
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Describe how the blood vessels by substances from Tobacco smoke.
Substance from Tobacco smoke can damage the artery linning-Fat builds up in the artery wall at the site of damage making artery narrower-A blood clot may block artery and break off another artery in the body causing a heart attack or stroke
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What does high blood pressure do?
Increase the risk of Cardiovascular disease
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What would a doctor may advise a patient with high blood pressure to do?
More exercise or give up smoking then patient will be given medicine to reduce it
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How can a narrowed vessel be widened?
By inserting a small mesh tube(stent) at the narrowest part of the to hold it open
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How can blocked arteries in the heart be bypassed?
By inserting other blood vessels so that the heart tissue is supplied with oxygen and nutrients again
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What happens to patients after they have these operation?
Have to take medicine for the rest of their lives to help prevent a heart attack or stroke
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What is obesity?
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A condition in which someone is overweight for their height and has a BMI above 30
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