Healthy Living Project

1. Healthy Living Project Main Question: Can too much of a good thing be bad for you? Nick, G, Bella M, Chris B & Brittney G

2. What are some foods that if we eat everyday can become harmful if we eat too much? • There are many items of food that we eat daily that if we eat in bulk, will cause harm. Some of them include; • Sugar, Carbohydrates, dairy products, salt, fibre, citrus fruits Etc.

3. The harms of digesting too much salt • For the human body to work efficiently it needs some salt in its diet. But if used out of proportion salt can become a hazard. Short term effects • Too much or too little salt in the diet can lead to muscle cramps or dizziness. Long term effects • Stroke • Cardiovascular disease • High blood pressure

4. How can vitamin pills harm to your health? • If some vitamins are over taken they can and will harm you. For example; • If vitamin A is over taken your chances of dying prematurely goes up by 16 percent • If vitamin c is over taken it has unpleasant effects on your stomach and urinary tract.

5. Eating a small apple (100g) gives an antioxidant effect equivalent to taking 1500mg of vitamin C and you'd have to take a mega-dose supplement to achieve that. This shows that real quality food is what you really need to improve vitamin problems.

6. How much dieting is unhealthy? • Over dieting can cause; • Anorexia • Not eating or purging (making yourself throw up) • Dieting becomes dangerous when your body loses weight too quickly.

7. How long should people spend in the sun and what happens if we spend too long in it? • It depends on skin tone • Vitamin pills/tablets may be needed for people who have trouble getting enough vitamin D. • Spending too much time in the sun can cause skin cancer/s: • Melanoma • Squamouscell carcinoma

8. Preventions: • Using sunscreen or sun block • Staying in the shade • Wear protective clothes that cover yours skin (ie. hat, sun glasses, long sleeve tops and pants)

9. How much alcohol does it take to affect our system? Long term effects • Heart damage • High blood pressure • Stroke • Liver damage Short term effects • Unable to walk • Blurred vision • Judgement effect

10. How can minor injuries turn into major injuries? • Minor injuries can easily turn into major injuries such as, • A cut can get infected and lead to: • Redness around the cut, • Discharges e.g. pus and blood • Itchiness, swelling • Green/yellow scab.

11. Can to much exercise be harmful and why? • Your body perceives exercise as a type of stress, and chemically reacts the same way it does to "bad" stress. • Too much exercise can result in symptoms such as; • Insomnia • Achiness (pain in the muscles and joints) • Fatigue

12. It also causes loss in appetite, feeling unmotivated, lacking energy, injuries such as stress fractures muscles strains or worse tears.

13. Can to much work or stressful activities be harmful and why? • Long periods of stress such as stress from relationships, work and other causes is bad. • Our immune system is weakened so you get sick more often. • You sleep less. • You eat less.

14. Long-term stressful situations can produce; • Alasting, low-level stress that's hard on people. • The nervous system then senses continued pressure and may remain slightly activated. • Then continues to pump out extra stress hormones over an extended period.

15. Reference List • Rose, D (2008) “Official health warning on risk of vitamin supplements.” Available: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3754205.ece 26 June 2011. • Healthrob (2009) “The dangers of taking vitamin supplements.” Available: http://healthrob.com/2009/09/the-dangers-of-vitamin-supplements/. 26 June 2011. • “Salt.” (2011) Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt. 26 June 2011.

16. Continued... • http://www.cancervic.org.au/about-cancer/cancer_types/skin_cancers_non_melanoma&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=Skin-cancer&utm_campaign=Cancer-types • http://www.medicinenet.com/anorexia_nervosa/article.htm