diet,exercise and disease

Question 1

Explain why people who exercise regularly are usually healthier than people who do little exercise?

Answer 1

-Exercise builds cardiovascular fitness, so people who exercise are likely to have healthier hearts and bigger lungs than people who don’t exercise.

-People who exercise are less likely to be obese than people who don’t exercise and are less likely to suffer diseases such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.

Question 2

What diseases are people who exercise less likely to get than people who don’t exercise?

Answer 2

diseases such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.

Question 3

Exercise levels and obesity levels are often linked. Suggest reasons for this?

Answer 3

-If excess food is consumed, it is stored as fat and you may become obese.

-Exercise uses up some of the energy produced during respiration from the food you eat.

-As a result, less food is stored as fat, reducing risk of obesity

Question 4

How can Type 2 diabetes be controlled?

Answer 4

-By helping people to eat a balanced diet,
take more exercise and lose weight,

-to restore normal blood glucose balance and reduce risk of type 2 diabetes

Question 5

Risk of developing type 2 diabetes is much higher in _________ than in _________ with the same body mass index (BMI).

Answer 5

Women

men

Question 6

Carrying too much weight is often linked to serious health problems, for example ….

Answer 6

type 2 diabetes
high blood pressure
heart disease

Question 7

why do women have a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes

Answer 7

-Women tend to have more body fat stored under the skin (subcutaneous fat), while men store more visceral fat around organs.

-However, some women accumulate more harmful fat around organs even at lower BMIs, increasing diabetes risk.

-Hormonal differences, especially effects of estrogen, can influence how the body handles glucose and insulin.