B1 - Health

Question 0

List each food group and it is needed for

Answer 0

Carbohydrates to release energy

Fats to keep warm and release energy

Protein for growth, cell repair and cell replacement

Fibre to keep everything moving smoothly through the digestive system

Vitamins and mineral ions to keep all parts of your body generally healthy

Question 1

What is a balanced diet?

Answer 1

A diet that provides the energy you need and not more and also the right proportion of different food groups

Question 2

What is metabolism?

Answer 2

All of the reactions in the body that keep you alive

Question 3

What do all metabolic reactions need?

Answer 3

The input of energy

Question 4

What is metabolic rate?

Answer 4

Rate of chemical reactions in the body

Question 5

What 3 factors affect metabolic rate and why?

Answer 5

Muscle to fat proportion (muscle needs more energy than fatty tissue so a higher metabolic rate is needed)

General size (a bigger person has more cells that need energy)

Gender (men are usually bigger and have more muscle so metabolic rate is higher for men)

Question 6

What factor affects someone’s current metabolic rate?

Answer 6

When you exercise, you need more energy so the metabolic rate goes up

Question 7

What does it mean if somebody is malnourished?

Answer 7

It means that their health is affected because they have an unbalanced diet

Question 8

What is obesity caused by?

Answer 8

Excess carbohydrate or fat in the diet

Question 9

What are 4 possible problems that can happen because of obesity?

Answer 9

Arthritis (joint inflammation)

Type 2 diabetes (inability to control blood sugar level)

High blood pressure

Heart disease

Question 10

What are the 2 other problems that can come from being malnourished and what causes them?

Answer 10

Too much saturated fat causes increased blood cholesterol level

Too much salt can cause high blood pressure and heart problems

Question 11

What are the 4 problems that can come from eating too little?

Answer 11

Slow growth in children

Fatigue

Poor resistance to infection

Deficiency diseases

Question 12

What are the 2 other factors that affect health?

Answer 12

Amount of exercise

Inherited factors

Question 13

What are the 2 ways that increasing exercise improves health?

Answer 13

Exercise increases the amount of energy used by the body and decreases the amount stored as fat

It also builds muscle that boosts metabolic rate

Question 14

What are the 2 ways that inherited factors can affect health?

Answer 14

Some people have inherited factors that affect metabolic rate

Some have factors that affects blood cholesterol level

Question 15

In terms of diet information, what does sodium mean?

Answer 15

Salt

Question 16

When seeing if a slimming product will actually work, what 4 things do you need to check?

Answer 16

The report is a scientific study or in a reputable journal

Written by a qualified person not connected with selling it

Sample of people tested large enough to give reliable results

Other studies that give similar results

Question 17

What has to be true if a slimming product is going to work?

Answer 17

That it will make you eat less carbohydrate or fat or make you do more exercise