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19 Cards in this Set
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Fitness |
Ability to do physical activity |
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Health |
free from disease and not smoking or drinking |
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what does your heart do? |
Pumps blood around the body |
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why do we need oxygen and glucose? |
respiration |
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what are the blood vessels called that carry blood around our body called? |
veins arteries and capillaries |
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things that increase heart disease |
smoking, high levels of salt, high levels of saturated fat, high blood pressure |
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what is food |
an energy source for living organisms |
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What is respiration? |
the process of making energy |
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where do we get energy from? |
fats and carbohydrates |
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what is respiration? |
process of making energy |
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risks of being overweight |
high blood pressure |
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smaller molecules in proteins |
amino acids |
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what are first class proteins? |
proteins our body can't make |
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a risk of high blood pressure |
type 2 diabetes |
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what are infectious diseases caused by? |
pathogens |
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what are the symptoms of an infectious disease caused by? |
cell damage or toxins produced by the pathogens |
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what are non infectious diseases caused by? |
genes, cell mutation |
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parasite |
and organism which lives in or on another living organism |
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vector |
an organism which transmits a disease form one organism to another |
