Topic
Health
The body, what it needs, and what to do when it fails.
24 cards
The Stress Response
Your body's fire alarm
The body's automatic reaction to danger, real or imagined.
Sleep
The brain's nightly reset
The nightly period when the brain repairs and files what it learned.
The Plate Method
A meal plan with no maths
A way of building a balanced meal by dividing the plate, not counting.
Nutrition Labels
The fine print on your food
The panel on packaged food listing what is inside and how much.
First Aid: Burns
Cool water, not butter
The first care given to a burn, before any doctor is involved.
CPR
The beat that saves
Chest compressions that keep blood moving when a heart has stopped.
The Recovery Position
One turn, one life
A safe position for an unconscious person who is still breathing.
Hygiene
Twenty seconds that changed medicine
Everyday cleaning habits that stop germs from spreading.
Vaccination
Training the army before the war
A safe preview of a disease that teaches the body to fight it.
Body Image
The comparison that is unfair by design
How a person pictures their own body, and how accurate that picture is.
The Warm-Up
Why your body needs a preview
Gentle movement before exercise that prepares muscles for effort.
The Heimlich Manoeuvre
The thrust that clears the airway
Abdominal thrusts used to clear an object blocking someone's airway.
Screen Time
The experiment no one approved
The hours spent looking at screens, and what is known about the effect.
RTI
Three letters, total transparency
A law letting any citizen ask a public body what it did and why.
The Election
The largest exercise in democracy on Earth
The process by which citizens choose who governs them.
Cooking Basics
Five techniques that feed you for life
A handful of techniques that cover most of what home cooking needs.
Water at Scale
Four generations of plumbing, all buried
The works that move, clean, and store water for a whole city.
Making Medicine
Ten years, and most of them fail
The long filter that turns a molecule into an approved medicine.
Food from Air
Half your nitrogen came from a factory
The industrial process that lets the world grow enough food.
Public Health Delivery
The last mile is the whole problem
Getting proven health measures to the people who need them.
The Cold Chain
One warm hour ruins a year of work
The unbroken run of refrigeration from producer to person.
Pharmacy of the World
One in five generic pills is made here
India's generic medicine industry, and what it changed for everyone.
Your Health Record
The doctor's memory is not yours
The file of your own medical history, and who is actually keeping it.
Antibiotic Resistance
A cure being used up in slow motion
Bacteria learning to survive the medicines that used to kill them.