A diet containing the correct amounts of the different food groups. Without balance you may end up malnourished.
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Why do you need more energy in your 18s than in your 80s?
At a young age you use your muscles more. You need the energy to supply the energy used up.
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Why does an athlete need more energy than you?
Their muscles take up approx 40% of body mass, and so use up a major part of the energy you intake from Carbohydrates.
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What is the metabolic rate?
The rate of chemical reactions in your cells. Affected by your fat to muscle ratio, the amount of exercise you do and your genetics.
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Explain why some people are fatter than others.
Because their metabolic rates may be slower. They may have a very high energy and/or fatty diet which they don't burn off, which falls into fat reserves around the body.
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Card 2
Front
At a young age you use your muscles more. You need the energy to supply the energy used up.
Back
Why do you need more energy in your 18s than in your 80s?
Card 3
Front
Their muscles take up approx 40% of body mass, and so use up a major part of the energy you intake from Carbohydrates.
Back
Card 4
Front
The rate of chemical reactions in your cells. Affected by your fat to muscle ratio, the amount of exercise you do and your genetics.
Back
Card 5
Front
Because their metabolic rates may be slower. They may have a very high energy and/or fatty diet which they don't burn off, which falls into fat reserves around the body.
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