Section 1: Food, Nutrition and Health - Chapter 2: Nutritional needs and health - 2: Energy needs
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- The functions of energy in the body:
- Growth
- Movement
- Body warmth
- Production of sound
- Brain function
- Chemical reactions
- Main sources of energy:
- Carbohydrate
- Fat
- Protein
- Effects of a deficiency of energy:
- Body loses weight as fat stores are used up
- Effects of an excess of energy:
- Energy stored as fat
- Weight of body increases
- Basal metabolic rate (BMR):
- Amount of…
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