Soc24: Enegy Use, Diet, Nutrition And Hydration

Question 1

Complex Carbohydrates (Starch)

Answer 1

Found in natural foods, such as bananas, brown rice, wholemeal bread, wholemeal pasta, nuts and potatoes

Question 2

Simple carbohydrates (sugars)

Answer 2

Found in their natural form in fruit and vegetables, and in their refined form in biscuits, cakes, chocolates and confectionary

Question 3

Fats

Answer 3

Provide energy and together with glycogen, help muscles to work. Found in butter, margarine and cooking oils

Question 4

Proteins

Answer 4

Build muscles and to repair damaged tissue. Important to strong athletes such as rugby players and shot and hammer throws

Question 5

Carbo loading

Answer 5

A strategy athletes use to maximise the stores of glycogen (or energy) in their muscles and liver

Question 6

Dehydration

Answer 6

The loss of water and salts essential for normal body function

Question 7

Hydrate

Answer 7

To take on water

Question 8

Metabolic rate

Answer 8

The rate at which metabolic processes take place; the rate at which a body uses up energy

Question 9

Hydration

Answer 9

Being hydrated means the body has the correct amount of water in cells, tissues and organs to function correctly.

Question 10

Diuretic

Answer 10

Making you produce more urine