PE - 1.1.5 - Your personal health and wellbeing

Balanced diet:

• provides energy
• repairs injured tissue
• helps our body grow
• contributes to good general health

Exercise, diet, work and rest

• good diet - good amount of calorie intake, provides body with enough energy
• balance of diet, work and rest prevent heart disease, high blood pressure, stress, stroke, high cholesterol, obesity/anorexia

Diet:

• the normal food we eat.
• essential for energy to work and exercise/ rest and repair tissue
• calories in the diet = calories used
• active people use more energy - more calories
• balanced diet is also about providing all the nutients it requires to work efficiently

7 factors of a balaned diet:

Macro nutrients:

• carbohydrates, fats and protein
• present in out diet in large quantities

Micro nutrients:

• vitamins and nutrients
• present in small amounts in our diet
• do not provide energy but allow cells to function correctly

Water:

• keeps body temperature under control

Fibre:

• keeps digestive system active

Carbohydrates:

• simple carbohydrates - found in fruit and confectionary (e.g. biscuits)
• complex carbohydrates - potatoes, brown rice, bread, bananas - help with energy and should form 50% of our diet
• stored in muscles and liver as glycogen
• glycogen converted into glucose to be used to provide energy
• energy for exercise - complex carbs…