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HPE: Lifestyle Diseases

Lifestyle Diseases

          

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  • Keywords: "asthma", "obesity", "heart disease", "stroke", "cancer", "diabetes", "drug-related diseases", "high-blood pressure"
  • Subjects: Year 8 - Lifestyle Diseases

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Lifestyle Diseases

As modern life becomes increasingly complex, people are becoming more and more inactive. This is now reflected in children and teenagers alarming statistics relating to obesity, diabetes, and many other lifestyle-related conditions. Put simply, the rate of disease directly attributed to lifestyle is dramatically on the rise, so what can we do to counteract this on a personal level.

TASK:

You are to investigate a selected lifestyle disease or illness from the following list:

  • Heart disease
  • Stroke
  • Cancer (lung, skin, bowel, cervical, breast, testicular or colon)
  • Diabetes
  • Asthma
  • High Blood Pressure
  • Drug-related diseases
  • Obesity

Task Sheet

LIFESTYLE DISEASES & ILLNESSES

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