Keeping Healthy - Diet and Exercise
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- Created on: 19-01-16 10:19
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- Keeping healthy - Diet & exercise
- Healthy diet = right balance of different foods & right amount of energy
- Carbohydrates, fats, poteins are used by body to release energy and build cells
- Mineral ions and vitamins needed in small amounts for healthy function of body
- Malnourished if persons diet not balanced
- May lead to being overweight/underweight/ deficiency diseases and or type 2 diabetes
- person looses weight if energy content of food less that amount expended by body
- exercise increases the amount of energy expended
- Metabolic rate = rate at which all chemical reactions in cells of body are carried out
- Metabolic rate varies with amount of activity person does and the proportion of fat in your body
- Metabolic rate affected by inherited factors
- inherited factors affect health
- eg cholesterol level
- People who exercise reguarly are usually healthier than those who take little exercise
- Healthy diet = right balance of different foods & right amount of energy
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