Secret Sugar
Healthy Habits
Managing Meds
Wacky Words
Staying Well
100
Beverage which contains lots of sugar and acid, both of which can damage your teeth
What is soda?
100
Beverage with zero calories
What is water?
100
An adverse effect
What is an undesired harmful effect resulting from a medication or other intervention?
100
Hypertension
What is the medical term for high blood pressure?
100
A shot given to prevent getting sick later on
What is a vaccine
200
Soda that contains more sugar and caffeine than Coke
What is Mountain Dew?
200
The single biggest way to decrease risk of lung cancer (and many others!)
What is quitting smoking?
200
Can worsen symptoms of mental illness, can worsen side effects of medications, and can lead to dependency.
What is alcohol and drug use?
200
Dependence
What is a word that means the body relies on a substance and experiences withdrawal without the substance?
200
Used to listen to your heart and lungs
What is a stethoscope?
300
Percentage of the population with diabetes.
What is 9.3%?
300
Recommended amount of exercise time per week
What is 30 minutes, 5 days per week?
300
Ways to remember to take your medication
What is taking medications at the same time every day, using a pillbox, leaving reminders where you can see them, asking friends/family to remind you?
300
Dermatology
What is the study of skin?
300
Reducing the amount of salt in your diet
What is a way to lower high blood pressure
400
Insulin deficiency and insulin resistance
What are the causes of diabetes (type 1 and type 2, respectively)?
400
Recommended hours of sleep per night
What is 7-8 hours?
400
The percent of people who take their medication INcorrectly or not at all: A) 17 % B) 32% C) 50% D) 70%
What is C) 50%? Osterberg L, Blaschke T. Adherence to medication. N Engl J Med. 2005;353:487-489
400
A person you appoint to make health care decisions for you if you lose the ability to make decisions yourself.
What is a healthcare agent/proxy?
400
The age at which your doctor will recommend a colonoscopy.
What is 50 years old?
500
Three parts of the body affected by diabetes.
What are the eyes, kidneys, and blood vessels?
500
A Body Mass Index (BMI) over 25
What is obesity?
500
By mouth, by injection, or under your tongue
What are ways to take your medicine
500
The capacity to process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions
What is Health Literacy?
500
Shows the electrical activity of your heart
What is an ekg
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