Diet

Diet

1. Food Groups

   • Carbohydrates
     • Provides Quick energy
   • Proteins
     • Builds and repairs muscle
   • Fats
     • Provides a slow store of energy
     • Saturated
       • Increase cholesterol levels
     • mono-unsaturated
       • Good for health, regulate cholesterol levels
     • Poly-unsaturated
       • Good for health
   • Vitamins
     • Help the body work
   • Minerals
     • Help release energy from food
   • Fibre
     • Aids the digestive system
   • Water
     • Keeps the body hydrated ad prevents dehydration
   • If you are missing even one of these food groups you become malnourished
   • Salt
     • Too much can cause heart and kidney disease and increase risk of a stroke

2. Metabolic Rate

   • Differs from person to person
   • Teenagers need more because they are growing
   • Elderly people need less because they aren't as active
   • Proportion of fat to muscle ratio affects your metabolic rate
   • Men generally have a higher muscle to fat ratio compared to women
     • This means men have a higher metabolic rate

3. cholesterol

   • LDL's
     • Low density lipoproteins
     • Bad, lead cholesterol to cells and float around in the blood
   • HDL's
     • High density lipoproteins
     • Good, lead excess cholesterol to the liver to be destroyed
   • Cause heart disease