B1.1 Keeping Healthy
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- Keeping Healthy
- Diet
- Carbohydrates to release energy
- Fats to keep you warm and release energy
- Protein for growth, cell repair and cell replacement
- Vitamins and mineral ions to keep everything healthy
- Fibre to keep everything working in the digestive system
- Metabolism
- Chemical reactions
- Speed at which they occur is the metabolic rate
- Size, gender. muscle, diet and exercise affect the rate
- Unbalanced Diet
- Eating too much
- Excess carbohydrates and fats
- Caused by bad diet, overeating and lack of exercise
- Causes arthritis, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer and high cholesterol
- Eating too little
- Causes slow growth, fatigue, poor resistance to infection, irregular periods and scurvy
- Eating too much
- Fighting Disease
- Bacteria are living cells
- 1/100th the size of your body cells
- Damage your cells and produce toxins
- Viruses are not cells
- 1/100th the size of a bacterium
- Replicate themselves by invading cells
- The cell damage is what makes you feel ill
- Bacteria are living cells
- Diet
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