Zusammenfassung der Ressource
BIOLOGY: Diet & Energy
- Diet and metabolic rate
- Balanced
diet:
- Carbohydrates, Fats & Protein = energy
- Vitamins, minerals & ions = keeping healty
- unbalanced diet
= malnourished
- Losing Body Mass
- -Slimming diets
-Exercising
- -More energy being used up than taken in
-The body is forced to use up some of its
stored fat for energy
- Metabolic Rate
- Definition: Rate at which chemical
reactions take place in your cells
- The greater the proprtion of muscle to
fat in the body, the higher the metabolic
rate is likely to be
- Also increases during exercise
- Can be affected by your genes
- Fatty foods
- One gram of fat releases almost twice as much energy as
one gram of carbohydrates or, one gram of protein
- Proteins are not usually a source of energy for the
body
- they are used for other functions like growth and repair