Keeping Healthy
- Created by: hattie townsend
- Created on: 08-03-16 18:17
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- B1.1 - Keeping Healthy
- Diet and Exercise
- A healthy diet contains the right balance of different foods your body needs
- Carbs, fat and proteins are used by the body to release energy
- Mineral ions and vitamins are needed in small amounts for the body to function properly
- A person is malnourishedif their diet isn't balanced
- A poor diet can lead to:
- A person being overweight
- A person being underweight
- Deficiency diseases or conditions such as Type 2 diabetes
- A poor diet can lead to:
- A person will loose weight when the amount of energy they eat, is less than the amount of energy being used
- Exercise increases the amount of energy being used
- Health is also affected by inherited factors: metabolic rate and cholesterol level
- Metabolic Rate
- Rate at which chemical reactions take place in the body
- Metabolic rate will stay high after exercise. The less exercise that is taken and the warmer it is, the less food needed
- Affected by: The amount of exercise, the proportion of fat to muscle, inherited factors
- Rate at which chemical reactions take place in the body
- Cholesterol
- Made in your liver and is found in your blood
- Amount depends on: Diet and inherited factors
- Body needs cholesterol, but too much could result in heart disease
- Diet and Exercise
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