Biology 1 - Diet and Exercise

Food Groups:

• Carbohydrates: release energy
• Proteins: growth, cell repair and replacement
• Fats: to keep warm and for energy
• Fibre: to keep everything movely smoothly in the diestive system
• Vitamins and Minerals: to keep bones, blood and skin (general) healthy.

Metabolic Rate:

• Metabolic rate is the rate in which chemical reaction happen in your body.
• People with higher muscle to fat proportion have a h igher metabolic rate as they need more energy.
• Bigger people have higher metabolic rates as they have more cells so your body needs to be supplied with more energy.
• After exercise your metabolic rate stays high for a while.

Diet:

• People's diet who is out of diet are malnourished. You can be either fat or thin to be this.
• Excess carbohydrate in the body…