Revision Questions

1. What should be in a healthy balanced diet?

2. What is a "balanced" diet?

3. What are the 3 types of food (the stuff we get energy from?)

4. Name something that has a lot of protein.

5. Why is vitamin C important?

6. What is meant by a deficiency?

7. What causes Kwashiorkor disease?

8. What is your metabolic rate?

9. Which of these two people will have the highest metabolic rate? Why?

10. How does doing exercise help you to stop being overweight?

11. What diseases can be caused by being overweight?

12. Why do a lot of people in the UK become overweight?

13. Why do we need cholesterol?

14. Why is too much cholesterol bad for you?

15. What is the difference between HDL's and LDL's?

16. Why is eating chips every day bad for you?

17. What else shouldn't you eat too often?

18. Why is too much salt bad for you?

19. What is anorexia?