Keeping Healthy

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What makes up a balanced diet?
Carbohydrates, fat, proteins, vitamins, minerals
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Name one health problem long-term obesity can lead to.
Type 2 Diabetes
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What is your metabolic rate?
The rate at which chemical reactions of your body take place
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What is a pathogen?
A microorganism - usually bacteria or viruses
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Who was the doctor who realised that infection could be transferred person to person in a hospital?
Semmelweiss
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Name three things white blood cells do to defend the body against pathogens.
Ingest (digest and destroy) pathogens; produce antibodies to destroy particular pathogens; produce antitoxins to counteract toxins produced by pathogens
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Who discovered penicillin and when?
Alexander Fleming, 1928
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What is the MRSA bacteria and what makes it so dangerous?
A super bacterium that evolved through natural selection. It has become resistant to antibiotics, meaning it is harder to destroy. MRSA is ever-growing, due to the antibiotics killing off normal bacteria and leaving the MRSA free to spread.
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How does a vaccine work?
Dead/inactive forms of a pathogen are injected into the person. The white blood cells respond by making an antibody that matches that pathogen and destroys it. This makes the person immune - the white blood cells can now make antibodies quickly.
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Fill in the sentence. "Foods rich in _______ ____ can increase blood cholestrol levels."
Saturated fats
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Name one health problem long-term obesity can lead to.

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Type 2 Diabetes

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What is a pathogen?

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