Summer health unit Two

When a person has problems because of alcohol but is not physically dependent on alcohol.

alcohol abuse

When you consume more than your body can physically process.

Alcohol poisoning

When a drinker becomes physically dependent on alcohol.

alcoholism

The unit used to measure how much energy that food will produce in the human body.

calorie

Diseases that are easily passed from one person to another

communicable disease

A device that simulates tobacco smoking without burning tobacco and depends on a battery to heat a cartridge with liquid in it to produce a vapor.

electronic cigarettes

Calories taking up a lot of the daily allowance while providing little in return.

empty calories

Inherited genetic traits.

heredity

Impaired function because of alcohol consumption.

Intoxication

To absorb into the body.

metabolize

The addictive ingredient in cigarettes.

Nicotine

All body processes involving food.

nutrition

When friends encourage or promote behavior.

Peer pressure

Smoke that is inhaled by someone who is not smoking.

secondhand smoke

An unhealthy type of fat found in processed food.

trans fats