4/21 & 4/22

Turn-in Heart Disease and Cancer Research guides. (Assn #1) 20pts.

Causes of Heart Disease:

-High fat diet, smoking, heredity, not exercising, stress,
-High fat diet: High blood cholesterol must go somewhere; either fat banks or arteries.
-Heredity: How fat reacts in a persons body is largely determined by genetics.
-Lack of Exercise: Not burning fat or strengthening Heart.
-Smoking: Sticky arterial walls. Narrows arteries, raises blood cholesterol.
-Stress

Treatments:
1. Angioplasty: balloon in blocked artery and inflated to open artery.
2. By-pass surgery: Going around the blockage with a blood vessel taken out of the leg.
3. Medication and drugs to dissolve the clot.
4. Heart transplant
5. Pacemakers.

Cancer:
Causes:
Exposure to Sun, tobacco, high fat diet, radiation, chemicals/materials such as pesticides and asbestos, heredity, stress.

Treatment:
1. Chemotherapy: drugs used to kill cancer cells.
2.radiation: x-rays used to stop and or kill cancer cells.
3.surgery: remove the cancer before it spreads.

4/13 & 4/16

1. TAke Northwest Family Services survey.
A DAY Students will finish Disease Definitions #15 and turn it in.
B Day Students will continue researching Cancer or Heart Disease.