Eating a balanced diet is an important factor in staying healthy, but so is exercise which has a positive effect on our health in many ways. During exercise your body's metabolic rate increases which means you burn more calories. Here are the latest Biology questions concerning exercise and health, let's see how well you'll do.
By making you stronger and fitter
By helping your body control it's metabolic rates
By creating LDL cholesterol
By increasing levels of HDL cholesterol
The speed of eating
The speed of digestion
The speed of the chemical reactions in your body
The speed your blood flows through your arteries
Glucose
Lactose
Glucosic acid
Lactic acid
Carbohydrates include sugars and starch
Proteins are needed for growth and repair
Vitamins and minerals are needed in large quantities
Fats can come from both animal and plant sources
To get rid of lactic acid
Because it takes a while for your chest and heart muscles to slow down
Because it takes time for messages to reach your brain to say that you have stopped exercising
Because your body is staying ready just in case you start exercising again
To deliver more oxygen to your muscles
Because you are using up the nutrients from your last meal
To deliver more oxygen to your stomach so that you can release more energy from your food
Because your blood vessels are bigger
Heart disease
Beri-beri
Strokes
Diabetes
It can strain your heart muscles
It makes you go dizzy
It takes up too much time
You get too much protein in your blood
They are contracting and relaxing
Blood makes them larger so they can do more work
Muscle cell respiration is greater during exercise
So that they can get more protein for energy
It increases permanently
It decreases permanently
It stays high for a while and then goes back to normal
It stays low for a while and then goes back to normal
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