Additional Factors Affecting The Energy Systems

Question 1

What are the 2 additional factors that affect the energy systems

Answer 1

• Diabetes and hypoglycaemic attack

- children’s lack of lactate

Question 2

explain diabetes

Answer 2

• diabetes is a condition where the amount of glucose in your blood is too high (known as type I diabetes)
• if one has diabetes their body cannot make proper use of energy so it builds up in the bloodstream and cannot be used

Question 3

what is insulin

Answer 3

insulin is the hormone produced by the pancreas that allows glucose to enter the body’s cells and be used as fuel for energy

Question 4

explain hypoglycaemia

Answer 4

• hypoglycaemia is an abnormally low level of glucose in your blood
• when ones glucose level is too low, your body does not have enough energy to carry out its activities
• it typically occurs when one with diabetes takes too much insulin, misses a meal or exercises too hard

Question 5

explain children’s lack of lactate

Answer 5

the lactate system in children isn’t fully developed therefore they find it difficult to remove this waste product (lactic acid)