Biology
- Created by: Jessica Buck
- Created on: 16-05-13 15:49
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- Fitness and Health
- Circulatory System
- Carries oxygen and glucose in your blood.
- Heart relaxes to fill with blood, and contracts to squeeze the blood out.
- Put under pressure when sent to the arteries.
- Blood pressure
- Measure of force of blood per unit area -mmHg.
- Represented by systolic pressure and diastolic pressure.
- Reduce high blood pressure by regular aerobic exercise, and having healthy diet.
- High blood pressure - Excess weight, High stress levels, Excess alcohol, High saturated diet, Smoking
- Causes of heart disease
- High blood pressure, smoking, too much salt, high-fat diets
- Health and Fitness
- Health - free from infection
- Fit - how much activity you do and quick your body recovers
- Circulatory System
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