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Flashcards by Moon&Stars4U, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Moon&Stars4U
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| Question | Answer |
| What is a balanced diet? | A diet that contains all the main nutrients (carbohydrate, fats, protein, vitamins, minerals, fibre & water) in the correct amounts and proportions. |
| How does a balanced diet relate to the age, sex, & activity of an individual? | ➢ Dietary requirements depend on your age, sex and activity; ➢ The amount of energy needed is provided by our carbohydrate and fat intake; ➢ Generally, males use more energy than females; ➢ And generally the energy demand increases as we get older until we stop growing; ➢ Someone doing physical work will use up more energy than an office worker; ➢ While children are growing they need more protein per kilogram of body weight than adults do; ➢ Pregnant women need extra nutrients for the development of the fetus. |
| What are the causes, symptoms, and consequences of obesity? | Causes: Too much food Symptoms and consequences: Heart disease, stroke, diabetes |
| What are the causes, symptoms, and consequences of coronary heart disease? | Causes: Too much saturated fat Symptoms and consequences: Cholesterol sticks to the walls of coronary arteries, therefore not enough blood can get in the heart, this leads to a heart attack |
| What are the causes, symptoms, and consequences of starvation? | Causes: Too little food Symptoms and consequences: Weight loss, organ damage, death |
| What are the causes, symptoms, and consequences of constipation? | Causes: Lack of fibre Symptoms and consequences: Unable to defecate, pain |
| What is ingestion? | Taking substances (e.g. food and drink) into the body through the mouth |
| What is egestion? | Passing out of food that has not been digested, as faeces, through the anus |