This document provides information about lifestyle diseases. It defines lifestyle diseases as medical conditions associated with how a person lives, such as lack of exercise, poor diet, smoking, and alcohol/drug use. Examples of lifestyle diseases given include obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and eating disorders. The document discusses diabetes in more detail, stating that it occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or the body is unable to use the insulin produced. It provides information about types 1 and 2 diabetes and recommends prevention and control methods.

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K. Batchelor
Evering
FOOD, NUTRITION & HEALTH

2. SAY THE
COLOUR
NOT THE
WORD

3. Lifestyle
Diseases

4. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
* Define the term lifestyle diseases
* Discuss the relationship between energy input
and output
* Briefly describe diabetes as a lifestyle disease
* Distinguish among type 1,type 2 & gestational
diabetes
* State at least 3 signs/symptoms of diabetes
* Recommend methods of preventing and
controlling diabetes

5. What are
LIFESTYLE DISEASES?

6. What are Lifestyle Diseases?
Lifestyle
Diseases
Medical conditions/
disorders associated
with the way a person
lives
Caused by lack of
physical activity,
unhealthy eating,
alcohol, drugs &
smoking
Non-
communicabl
Diseases?

7. Lifestyle Diseases
OBESITY DIABETES hypertension
Heart
diseases/stroke
Iron-deficiency
anaemia
Dental caries
Eating disorders
(anorexia & bulimia

8. WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?
A
B
C

9. WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?
A
B
C
Weight
loss
Weight gain
Balanced weight

11. Can you complete this passage?
When starchy foods are digested, g_ _ _
_ _ _ is produced. The g_ _ _ _ _ _ goes in the b_
_ _ _ s_ _ _ _ _ where it is transformed into
energy by the hormone i_ _ _ _ _ _, which is
produced by the
p _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

12. Solution
When starchy foods are digested,
glucose is produced. The glucose
goes in the bloodstream where it is
transformed into energy by the
hormone insulin, which is produced
by the pancreas.

13. Non-Insulin
Dependent
Insulin
Dependent

14. HOW DOES DIABETES OCCUR?
1.
There is
no insulin
2.
The body is
unable to use
the insulin it
DIABETES

15. Follow the yellow path
Insulin is produced by the pancreas
If the pancreas doesn’t make
enough,
then glucose stays in the
bloodstream
and can spill over in the urine
(making it sweet)
Lack of glucose in the
cells, leads to
Energy being obtained
from the body’s fat stores
Leading to weakness
and weight loss

19. Diabetes
I know one day they’ll find a cure
I really know and that’s for sure
There are highs and low and ups and
downs
There’s finger pricking all year round
I feel dizzy, I have to ‘pee’
Why oh why is this happening to me?
The constant needles is this a dream
There’s just some days I’d like to
scream
An excerpt from Diabetes by Chris Glencross
Questions:
1. Is there a cure for diabetes? Justify
your response
2. What is the purpose of the ‘finger
pricking’ in line 4?
3. Why does the author feel dizzy?
4. Which type of diabetes is the author
speaking of? Identify a line in the poem
that indicates that
5. Is the author enjoying being a
diabetic? Justify your response

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 Ridgwell,J. (1996). Examining Food and nutrition. Heinemann Ed.
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