Health and Keeping Fit Health = the ability of the organism to cope with daily activities = Or the level of functional and metabolic efficiency of a living.

1 Health and Keeping Fit Health = the ability of the org...
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1 Health and Keeping Fit Health = the ability of the organism to cope with daily activities = Or the level of functional and metabolic efficiency of a living organism

2 Key factors that have been found to influence whether people are healthy or unhealthy include:Sleep -an essential component to maintaining health -for children, sleep is also vital for growth and development- newborns sleep twenty hours every day -ongoing sleep deprivation has been linked to an increased risk for some chronic health problems -sleep deprivation has been shown to correlate with both increased susceptibility to illness and slower recovery times from illness -World Health Organization, declared: "shiftwork that involves circadian disruption is probably carcinogenic to humans,"

3 Age and condotion Sleep needs Newborns (0-3 months) 20 hours Infants (4-11 months) 12-15 hours Toddlers (1-2 years) 11-14 hours Preschoolers (3-5 years) 10-13 hours School-age childrean (6-13 years) 9-11 hours Teenagers(14-17 years) 8-10 hours Adults(18-64 years) 7-9 hours Older Adults (65 and over) 7-8 hours

4 Exercise physical exercise enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness it strengthens muscles and improves the cardiovascular system Very „healthy“ sports are: - swiming - not overloading the joints and ligaments, strengthening the heart muscle - running – you burn a big amount of calories, great relax from troubles - fitness – it is good if you do it moderate, bodybuilding is extremly unhealthy - balance exercises – you don´t burn calories but you can fix your muscles, improve your balance and it can help you in other sports

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6 Nutrition - your diet should contains: proteins ( meat, eggs, cottage cheese) carbohydrates( „fast-fruits, slow-rice“) unsaturated fats (walnut) - everything must be in balance. - and the best you can drink is water and green tea + nutrition suplements – protein shake, BCAA, vitamins and minerals

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8 respiratory diseases Asthma – affects bronchiWhooping cough - a bacterial disease transmitted by droplet infection pulmonary edema - accumulation of fluid in the lungs - leads to disruption of gas exchange and may cause respiratory failure Pneumothorax pneumonia - an inflammatory lung disease mainly affecting the microscopic air-filled cavities called alveoli

9 active immunization -medical procedure in which a healthy organism is intentionally meets with microbes -the immune system learns to identify relevant antigens and vaccination should thus be protected from infection or at least before the severe course of the disease if it meets the germs -vaccination does not always lead to the development of immunity, not everyone vaccinated and is therefore protected against infection.

10 attenuated vaccine - measles - mumps - rubella - cowpox - chickenpox - yellow Fever - rotavirus infection - Influenza (intranasal) - Poliomyelitis (oral vaccine - Sabin vaccine) - Tuberculosis (BCG) - typhoid (oral vaccine)

11 inactivated vaccine - poliomyelitis - hepatitis A - rabies - flu - whooping cough - typhoid - plague

12 Bizzare diseas

13 Water Allergy An extremely rare condition Usually occurs later in lifeBecause of an imbalance of histamine in blood. Living with it can be difficult Only Diet coke and have a shower for 10 seconds

14 Red teeth and nails chemicals called Porphyrins produce something called Haem Haem- an important molecule in red blood cells for carrying oxygen Sympthomps: urine, feces, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting Effects: itching, swelling and sometimes teeth and fingers can be reddish Famous People: Mary Queen of Scots, Vincent van Gogh and King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon

15 Bones instead of musclesTurns muscles, tendoms and ligaments into bone Harry Easlack: suffered from FOP(fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva) broke his leg it stiffened up and bone growths died at the age of 39 years his skeleton is on display at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia

16 Skeleton of Harry Eastlack