Lesson 3.1: When Your Body Cannot Cope - Part 1

You have been sick, right?  The common cold, flu, and other diseases make people sick.  Your body has some defensive mechanisms that destroy disease-causing organisms and, after a while, you feel better.  Sometimes, your body cannot cope with your lifestyle, diet, or genetic problems. 

Read the When Your Body Cannot Cope on page 225 of your textbook. Then, answer the following questions.

 

Question 1. What is diabetes?

Question 2. What are the two factors that are responsible to getting diabetes?

Question 3. What is the substance that maintains optimal blood sugar levels in the body?  What organ produces this substance?

Question 4. Explain the difference between the two types of diabetes.

Question 5. How is diabetes treated?

Question 6. What are ulcers?

Question 7. What are the factors responsible for getting ulcers?

Question 8. How are ulcers treated?

Question 9. Who discovered insulin?

 

Check your answers with those that follow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers to Questions:

Question 1. What is diabetes?

Diabetes results in the body having abnormally large amounts of sugar in the blood and urine.

Question 2. What are the two factors that are responsible to getting diabetes?

According to the heading of the paragraph on diabetes, the two factors that are responsible for getting diabetes are lifestyle and genetics.

Question 3. What is the substance that maintains optimal blood sugar levels in the body?  What organ produces this substance?

Insulin is the substance that maintains optimal blood sugar levels in the body.  The pancreas produces insulin.

Question 4. Explain the difference between the two types of diabetes.

One type of diabetes is caused when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin to control the amount of blood sugar in the blood.  In the second type, the pancreas produces enough insulin, but the insulin does not work.

Question 5. How is diabetes treated?

Diabetes is treated with daily injections of insulin, a balanced diet, and exercise.

Question 6. What are ulcers?

Ulcers are holes or breaks in the stomach lining.

Question 7. What are the factors responsible for getting ulcers?

The reading indicates that ulcers are a genetic disease.  There is evidence that some ulcers are caused by bacteria.

Question 8. How are ulcers treated?

Ulcers are treated using drugs and antibiotics.

Question 9. Who discovered insulin?

Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin in 1921.

 


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