Diet Related Diseases2

Question 1

What are causes of obesity?

Answer 1

Eating too much sugary and starchy foods and not being active enough to burn off the energy. Extra energy is stored as fat.

Question 2

What is the prevention of obesity?

Answer 2

Follow a healthy diet and exercise regularly.

Question 3

What are the signs and symptoms of obesity?

Answer 3

Clothes feeling tight, scale showing you have gained weight and having extra fat around the waist.

Question 4

What is the treatment for obesity?

Answer 4

Eating healthily,exercise and drinking lots of water.

Question 5

What is type 2 diabetes?

Answer 5

A disease that affects the body’s ability to use blood sugar for energy.

Question 6

What is the treatment for diabetes?

Answer 6

Insulin injections,keep blood sugars levels as low as possible,weight and physical activity.

Question 7

What are the causes of diabetes?

Answer 7

When the pancreas does not produce enough insulin to maintain a normal blood sugar, or when body is unable to use the insulin produced.

Question 8

What is the prevention of diabetes?

Answer 8

Follow a diet in which carbohydrate intake is controlled.

Question 9

What are the symptoms of diabetes?

Answer 9

Thirst,urination,blurred vision and excessive tiredness.

Question 10

What is high cholesterol?

Answer 10

A disease caused by the build up of plague in the blood vessels. This means means blood does not flow easily through the vessels.

Question 11

What is cholesterol (noun)?

Answer 11

A substance that is found in our diets.

Question 12

What is the treatment for cholesterol?

Answer 12

Exercise,changing your diet,cholesterol lowering medication.

Question 13

What are the signs and symptoms of cholesterol?

Answer 13

Yellowish skin,heart attacks and strokes.

Question 14

What are the preventions of cholesterol?

Answer 14

We should follow a low fat,low cholesterol diet,we should also eat a diet containing foods rich in fibre.

Question 15

What is high blood pressure?

Answer 15

High blood pressure is when too much pressure by blood is put on the blood vessels.

Question 16

What is the treatment of high blood pressure?

Answer 16

Anti hypertensive medication.

Question 17

What are the signs and symptoms of high blood pressure?

Answer 17

Yellowish skin,heart attacks and strokes.

Question 18

What are the preventions of high blood pressure?

Answer 18

Using less salt, exercising regularly and controlling stess.

Question 19

What is heart disease?

Answer 19

Where there is a build up of fat in the arteries of the body and makes it difficult for blood to flow ,it causes a heart failure.

Question 20

What is the treatment of heart disease?

Answer 20

CHD medication.

Question 21

What are the preventions of heart disease?

Answer 21

Exercise regularly,don’t smoke and eat healthy foods.

Question 22

What are the signs and symptoms of heart disease?

Answer 22

Severe pains called angina.

Question 23

What are the causes of coronary heart diesease?

Answer 23

When the heart muscle get too little food and oxygen.

Question 24

What is tooth decay?

Answer 24

When you consume too much sugar, the bacteria in your mouth makes acids that eat away at the tooth’s surface.

Question 25

What are the treatments for tooth decay?

Answer 25

Use Floride varnish, or replace the hole in the tooth with a filling.

Question 26

What are the signs and symptoms of tooth decay?

Answer 26

Toothache and tooth sensitivity

Question 27

What are the preventions of tooth decay?

Answer 27

Brush teeth,visit the dentist regularly and eat tooth friendly healthy foods.

Question 28

What are rickets?

Answer 28

A condition where children do not get enough fruit and vegetables and do not get a sufficient amount vitamin d.

Question 29

What are the preventions of rickets?

Answer 29

Always eat a healthy balanced diet.

Question 30

What is the treatment for rickets?

Answer 30

Replacing missing vitamins in your body or by getting more sun or a variety of fruits and vegetables.

Question 31

What are the signs and symptoms of rickets?

Answer 31

Pains or tenderness in your bones.

Question 32

What is kwashiorkor?

Answer 32

A diesease caused by lack of protein and iodine in their diet.

Question 33

What are the symptoms of kwashiorkor?

Answer 33

Swollen hands and feet,a very large tummy, many ulcers on the skin and hair might discolour.

Question 34

What are the preventions of kwashiorkor?

Answer 34

Eat the right amount of protein.

Question 35

What treatment is there for kwashiorkor?

Answer 35

Protein supplementation and antibiotics.

Question 36

What is obesity?

Answer 36

A condition where a persons body weight is more than 20%of the average weight for the other people the same age and height as that person.

Question 37

Which diseases mainly affect children?

Answer 37

Kwashiorkor,tooth decay and rickets.

Question 38

What is constipation?

Answer 38

A painful condition that occurs when making a species is difficult and take place days or even weeks apart.

Question 39

The causes of constipation?

Answer 39

Not drinking a lot of water and not eating healthily.

Question 40

What are the signs and symptoms of constipation?

Answer 40

When you do not go to the toilet to make a species in days or weeks.

Question 41

What is the prevention of constipation?

Answer 41

Drink a lot of water and eat healthily.

Question 42

What are the treatments of constipation?

Answer 42

Laxative