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6. What health problems can long term obesity cause?

  • Low blood sugar
  • Type 2 diabetes and high blood sugar
  • Bad co ordination and vision problems
  • Low blood pressure and type 1 diabetes

7. What can high levels of bad cholesterol lead to?

  • Heart disease
  • Liver and kidney problems
  • Arthritis

8. What are antitoxins used for?

  • To produce antitoxins to counteract the toxins that pathogens produce
  • To help destroy particular pathogens
  • To digest and destroy pathogens

9. How can type 2 diabetes and high blood sugar be reduced?

  • Eating more protein and less carbohydrates
  • Eating less carbs and increasing amount of exercise
  • Eating more carbs and exercising less

10. What are antibodies used for?

  • To help destroy particular pathagons
  • To counteract toxins that pathogens produce
  • To trap pathogens in mucus and kill them with stomach acid

11. What do antibiotics do?

  • Kill infective bacteria
  • Digest and destroy pathogens
  • Reproduce inside cell bodys

12. What can you do to increase your metabolic rate and lower high cholesterol levels?

  • Exercising less
  • Change the time you go to bed
  • Exercise regularly
  • Increasing your carbohydrate intake

13. What is meant by 'ingesting pathogens'?

  • Digest and destroy them
  • Produce antibodies
  • Produce antitoxins to counteract the poisons

14. How do pathogens make you feel ill?

  • By producing antitoxins
  • Bi getting rid of antibodies
  • By producing toxins
  • By clearing your body of good bacteria

15. Which doctor told his staff to wash their hands in between treating patients?

  • Alexander fleming
  • Semmelweiss
  • Darwin

16. Why are viruses difficult to treat?

  • They are resistant to most painkillers and other drugs
  • They reproduce inside body cells to any treatment could damage the body cells
  • They are much smaller than bacteria

17. What are pathogens?

  • Antibodies
  • Microorganisms
  • A toxin
  • Antitoxins

18. What else can increase blood cholesterol levels?

  • Foods rich in saturated fat
  • Fizzy drinks and crisps
  • Vitamins and mineral ions

19. How are viruses different to bacteria?

  • They travel around the body infecting more areas
  • They are much smaller and reproduce inside body cells
  • They increase more rapidly

20. What do painkillers and other drugs do?

  • Kill bacteria and viruses
  • Relieve symptoms of a disease
  • Kill the pathagons