Keeping Healthy
What you need to know about keeping healthy
- Created by: ukgamer321
- Created on: 21-04-14 11:00
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- Keeping Healthy
- Nutrients
- Carbohydrates
- Provides energy for muscles, nerves and brain
- Found in bread, cereal and potatoes
- Proteins
- Builds and repairs cells, fights infection and strengthens
- Found in fish, meat, milk, nuts and beans
- Fats
- Provides energy, makes cell membranes and helps digestion
- Found in walnuts, seeds and oils
- Vitamins
- Used for growth and health, facilitate and regulate body processes
- Citrus, strawberries and peppers
- Minerals
- Builds bones, teeth, blood, helps the body use energy. Makes body chemicals
- Found in bananas, potatoes and low fat cheese
- Water
- Transports oxygen and other nutrients to cells, carries waste away, aids in digestion and keeps you hydrated
- Fibre
- Keeps the bowels and digestive system working well
- Found in wholemeal bread and porridge
- Carbohydrates
- The right amount
- Too much food leads to..
- heart and joint problems
- type 2 diabetes
- obesity
- high cholesterol (as you have too much saturated fat)
- Cholesterol helps healthy cell growth and the production of hormones. LDLs are the bad cholesterol
- Too little food leads to..
- deficiency diseases (lack or particular vitamins and minerals)
- malnourishment which leads to becoming underweight
- Too much food leads to..
- BMI
- Weight (kg) / height (m squared)
- Metabolic Rate
- the rate at which all the chemical reactions in the cells of the body are carried out
- Can be affected by..
- job
- muscle mass
- age
- diet
- inherited factors
- Nutrients
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