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=Healthy Tips!=

Taking Care of your body

 * 1) =__ SMOKING __=

Are the cool kids in your school smoking? More importantly, are you thinking of smoking? If you are... Think, is smoking a healthier way to live my life? Is it going to make me a better person? Did you know, 90% of all adult smokers started when they were just kids? Each day more than 3,900 kids become regular smokers! __Smoking can affect all systems,__ __ but mostly the respiratory system, heart ____ diese which affects the circulatory system, ____ and lung diese which is a big problem in the __ __respiratory system.__ If you smoke you're not only killing yourself but you get bad breath,yellow teeth, stinky clothes, a lot of colds and coughs and have trouble keeping up with friends when playing sports. Smoking also makes it more difficult for blood to move around your body. So if you're just a kid and you want to live a long, happy life. NEVER SMOKE! http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch/house/smoking.html#cat20740 =



= = = = = = = 2. EXERCISE =

When you exercise, your heart becomes stronger, and your circulatory system easily delivers oxygen to your cells. As you exercise your muscular system becomes more flexible. If you exercise on a regular basis you have stronger muscles and bones, you won't be overweight and you'll have a beter way of life! SYSTEMS: circulatory, muscular, skeletal, respiratory. http://kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_center/staying_fit/exercise.html#cat20740__tml__ =

= = 3. DONT DRINK! =

Alcohol is a depressant. Its a drug that slows down your brain. Alcohol changes a persons ability to think, soeak, and see things as they really are. Ethanol is the kind of alcohol we drink and it dissolves in water, so it can rapidly be absorbed from the digestive tract, and circulate throughout the body in the blood. Drinking affects your heart and circulation. You have high blood pressure which increases the risk of having a heart attack and stroke. It weakens the heart muscles which can affect the lungs, liver, brain, and other body systems and can cause heart failuer. Also it can cause your heart to beat irrelgularly. It also affects your lungs. You get lung infections, you're most likely to get pnemonia and have your lungs collapse. In your bones it interferse with your body to absorb calcium, so your bones become weak and thin. Also in your stomach it causes internal bleeding, cancer, and have your stomach inflamed which can prevent food from getting absorbed and increase the risk of cancer. Your liver, pancrease, kidneys, skin and intestine, also get affected. SYSTEMS: digestive, skeletal, nervous, circulatory, respiratory, sensory, muscular. http://www.knowyourlimits.info/TheEffectsOfAlcohol.aspx