Summary: Keeping Healthy

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  • List the 6 components of a healthy diet

    Carbohydrates, Protein, Fat, Vitamins, Minerals, Water
  • What is the role of Protein, Vitamins and Minerals?

    To provide what your body needs for cell growth and repair
  • What happens when you don't eat enough vitamins/minerals?

    Deficiency diseases arise
  • What happens if energy output < energy input?

    You gain weight
  • What effect does exercise have on your metabolic rate?

    It increases it as it increases muscle mass, and muscles require more energy
  • How do viruses and bacteria make us ill?

    They release toxins that our bodies don't know how to fight
  • How does the body protect against pathogens?

    Sneezing, Coughing, White blood cells
  • Describe how white blood cells protect through antitoxins

    White blood cells release antitoxins that destroy a pathogen's toxins
  • How do vaccinations work?

    A patient is injected with dead/inactive microbes, your body creates the necessary antibodies to combat the pathogens so when you're actually infected, your body can fight it off before you get ill
  • Who is Ignaz Semmelweiss and what did he do?

    He was a doctor in the mid 1800s and he realised that doctors transferred infection between patients and that if doctors washed their hands, infection and death rates fell rapidly
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