NON-HEALTHY HABITS TOBACCO

Tobacco causes in Spain about 40000 deaths every year. It brings about

plenty of illnesses such as lung or mouth cancer, cough or heart attacks. Besides, tobacco damages not only to smokers but also to people who breathe in the smoke. Remember: Law protects non smokers. It’s forbidden to smoke in schools, hospitals or in any kind of enclosed public places. ALCOHOL

Alcohol is the most consumed toxic substance in our society:

It limits our body functions, above all brain

functions. It damages our nervous system

and makes us slower. It causes loss of memory, heart

illnesses… DRUGS

The cannabis: Its by-products are the hashish and the marijuana. When smoking it, it’s absorbed by the

lungs and goes fast to the brain. Problems you may have: Problems in the capacity of

concentration and with your memory.

It reduces the coordination. Change the sexual maturing

hormones. OBESITY

Obesity or overweight are defined as a great accumulation of fats that can be damaging for your health. According to WHO (World Health Organization) in 2005 there were 1600 million adults with overweight and at least 400 million with obesity. The WHO estimates that, by 2015 there will be 2300 million adults with overweight and more than 700 with obesity. Causes of obesity The main cause is a nutritional disorder between what you eat and what you burn up. Factors: A worldwide change in the diet

eating food with a great quantity of calories (fats and sugars) but few vitamins and minerals.

We tend to reduce our physical

activity due to sedentary nature of many jobs or to several changes in transport.

Obesity and overweight have serious consequences for your health: Cardiovascular illnesses. Diabetes. Osteoarthritis Cancer.

WORKSHEET

UNHEALTHY HABITS NAME AND SURNAME: GROUP:

QUESTIONS

1. How many deaths will be produced by tobacco next year? Tobacco will be produce 40000 of deaths here in Spain.

2. Where is it forbidden to smoke in our society? In all the enclosed public places.

3. What are the consequences for your body of smoking? -Lung or mouth cancer -Cough -Heart attack -Difficult to breath.

4. What is cannabis? Is the plant that produces the substance that produces some drugs such as the Marijuana and the Hashish. When we smoke this drugs that smoke is going to go to the lungs and then very fast to the brain.

5. What are the consequences for your body of taking drugs? -Problem with the concentration, and we also lose the memory -Lose of coordination. -Change of the sexual maturing hormones.

6. What is obesity? It is a great quantity of fats accumulated in the body that can be dangerous for your health.

7. How many people will have obesity in the World in 2015? Will be around 700.000.000 people in the world.

8. What factors cause obesity? -We change our diet, and we eat a lot of fats and sugars. -We spend any time to do physical activity.

9. What are the consequences of obesity? -Cardiovascular illnesses -Diabetes -Osteoarthritis -Cancer

10. What do you think about theunhealthy habits? That they are dangerous, and that the world is a bomb of people that are fat, unhealthy, and with a lot of problems in their body. I don´t like this world because the unhealthy habits are present in the actual day. I love to have a healthy life and for that I recommend you to make a world healthier but I think that with that way it isn’t going to be possible. One point less for this society that invite you to take the drugs and then we can’t stop and that invite you to take a good hamburger. Applaud the actual world.