1. What are lifestyle diseases?

2. Lifestyle Diseases
They are diseases that are caused partly by unhealthy behaviors and partly by other factors.
Causes: a person’s
Habits
Behaviors
Practices

3. Controllable Risk Factors
Your diet and body weight
Your daily levels of physical activity
Your level of sun exposure
Smoking and alcohol abuse

4. Uncontrollable Risk Factors
Age- the body has a harder time protecting itself as it ages.
Gender- certain diseases are more common among members of one gender (men- heart disease, women- breast cancer)
Ethnicity- African Americans are more likely to develop high blood pressure, Mexican Americans- higher risk of diabetes, Asians lower risk of heart disease, European decent- higher risk of heart disease.
Heredity- You can inherit chances of developing certain disease just as you inherit your hair or eye color.

5. Lifestyle Diseases
Types

6. Cardiovascular Diseases
The diseases and disorders that result from progressive damage to the heart and blood vessels.
Treating cardiovascular diseases: Diet and Exercise, Medicines, Surgery, Angioplasty, Pacemakers, Transplants
Preventing cardiovascular diseases: Relax, trim the fat, hold the salt, keep your weight healthy, don’t smoke, get moving

7. Cancer Malignant- invade and destroys healthy tissue
A disease caused by uncontrolled cell growth.
Tumors are a mass of uncontrolled growing cells that form a clump.
Malignant- invade and destroys healthy tissue
Benign- harmless cell mass
Causes:
Certain viruses (HPV)
Radiation (UV rays, X-rays)
Chemicals in tobacco smoke
Asbestos (material used in fireproofing)

8. Types of Cancer Breast Prostate Respiratory Colon Urinary Lymphoma
Skin
Leukemia
Ovarian
Cervical

9. Detecting Treating Self-exam Biopsy X rays MRI Blood and DNA tests
Surgery-remove tissue
Chemotherapy-use of drugs
Radiation therapy- beam of radiation to fire at a tumor
Combination- use any or all treatments

10. Preventing Cancer Don’t’ smoke!
Wear sunscreen; stay away from tanning beds
Eat your veggies and cut the fat
Stay active
Get regular medical check-ups

11. Diabetes
A disorder in which cells are unable to obtain glucose from the blood such that high blood-glucose levels result.
Type 1- body’s inability to produce insulin (born with)
Type 2- body’s inability to respond to insulin (develop)

12. Hereditary Diseases
Diseases caused by abnormal chromosomes or by defective genes inherited from one or both parents.
Single-cell diseases- when one gene out of 30,000 to 40,000 genes has a harmful mutation.
Complex Diseases- More than one gene influences the onset of a disease.

13. Immune Disorders
The immune system does not function properly resulting in a immune disorder.
Some are relatively mild (allergies); others can be life threatening(AIDS)

14. Autoimmune Diseases
The immune system attacks the cells of the body that it normally protects.
Depending on the cells of the body destroyed, these attacks can result in many conditions.