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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