Diet and energy balance

Question 1

Why do you need to maintain a healthy lifestyle?

Answer 1

To optimise performance in physical activity and sport and maintain a healthy weight.

Question 2

What does the eatwell guide show?

Answer 2

How we need to make up our diet from different types of food to get the correct balance

Question 3

What are the food groups?

Answer 3

Carbs
fruit and veg
protein
calcium
fats

Question 4

Why do we need a variety of food groups?

Answer 4

so we get the necassary range of nutrients e.g the eatwell guide tells us that we need to eat 5-10 pieces of fruit and veg a day but we cant have 5 pieces of the same fruit as it only counts as one.

Question 5

What are the nutrients?

Answer 5

Carbs
proteins
minerals
water
vitamins
fibre
fats

Question 6

What is energy balance?

Answer 6

ensure that the quantity we consume relates to how much exercise we do in order to have the correct nutrients for energy.

Question 7

What happens if we consume too much or too little?

Answer 7

Eating too much in relation to the amount of activity we do leads to overweight
Eating too little leads to underweight

Question 8

What is a balanced diet?

Answer 8

Eating a variety of food from all the different groups of food in the correct proportions.