Soc 24 Flashcards
(28 cards)
What is a balanced diet?(name seven elements)
This is when you consider all 7 elements; carbs, fats, protiens, vitamins, minerals, water, fibre
What are complex carbs and guve 2 examples
Provides energy for exercise and should form about half your daily intake;bananas and nuts
What is a simple carb?
Sugars found in their natural form in fruits and veg but are refined form in buscuits
What are macronurtients(name 2)
Types of food that you need in large amounts in you diet; carbohydrates, protiens
What are fats
Provide short burst of energy to help muscles work quickly
-Should take up 30 percent of your daily intake
What are protiens
- Help to repair and build tissue
- used to provide extended periods of time, such as marathon runner
Name 2 types of protiens
- Animal protiens
- plant or veg protiens
What is carb loading and why is it used
A strategy use by athlete used to maximise the stores of glycogen in their muscles
Name three sporting people that match the three macronutrients
Sumo wrestlers->fats,for gaining weight
Sprinters->protien->explosive strength and muscles
Marathon runners->carbs,run faster and for longer
Name 3 functions that vitamins give you
- Good vision
- good skin
- blood clotting
Name the 2 groups of vitamins
Water soluble
Fat soluble
What is a Water soluble in vitamins
Soluble that can be dissolved in a liquid substance
What is a fat soluble in vitamins
Soluble that can be dissolved in a fat
What are micronutrients
Are usually called vitamins and minerla and are found in only small amounts
Why are minerals essential for the body
They consist of calcium and iron
-calcium-makes bones strong
Vitamin A use and found in
- Used for vision
- helps prevent night blindness
- cheese and milk
Vitamin B1 use and found in
- release of carbs for any working muscles
- meat and nuts
Vitamin c
- helps healing
- fruit and vegstables
Vitamin D use and found in
- used for healing bones
- milk and fish
Vitamin E use and found in
- growth and development
- vegastables and cereal
Name four things that could effect the optimum body weight
- height
- bone structure
- muscle growth(size of muscles)
- gender
What is the ectomorph
- thin,skinny body shape
- fast metabolism
- small frame and bone structure
What is the endomorph
- soft and round body shape
- slow metabolism
- round physiqu
What is the mesomorph
- athletic body
- hard body with defined muscle
- gains muscle easily
