Chapter 10: Chemicals in Industry and Health
What you need to learn in this chapter
In this chapter, we will be learning about traditional medicine, modern medicine, and complementary medicine. We will understand the criteria for each type of medicine and the different medicines used in each.
We will also study free radicals and their impact on human health. We will define free radicals and reason about how they affect our health.
Furthermore, we will explore antioxidants and their role in combating free radicals. We will describe antioxidant substances and explain how they work against free radicals.
Lastly, we will discuss health products and their active ingredients. We will learn about the meaning of active ingredients and justify the use of health products available in the market.
Topics in this chapter
1. Traditional Medicine, Modern Medicine and Complementary Medicine
What you will learn in this topic
- Explain the criteria of traditional medicine, modern medicine and complementary medicine
- Explain the medicines used in traditional, modern and complementary medicine
- Justify the use of traditional, modern and complementary medicine
- Do reasoning about the use of medicine from natural resources and man-made resources in treatments and healthcare
- Conclude the effect of misuse of medicine
2. Free radicals
What you will learn in this topic
- Define free radicals
- Do reasoning about the impact of free radicals on human health
3. Antioxidant
What you will learn in this topic
- Describe the antioxidant substances
- Explain the action of antioxidant substance on free radicals
- Carry out an experiment to investigate the factors that affect the oxidation of food
4. Health Products
What you will learn in this topic
- Explain the meaning of active ingredients in health products
- Justify the use of health products available in the market
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