PathFit 1: Exercise-Based Fitness Activity

• Nutrition


  Is the health branch that stresses the importance of “the food for growth and development, as well as in lowering the chances of acquiring diseases and illness.
• Good Nutrition


  Nutrition, aliment, or nourishment is the supply of materials – food – required by organisms to stay alive. Our food choices affect our health and this is why they say — we are what we eat.
• Adequacy, Balance, Variety


  Key principle of Nutrition
• Carbohydrates, Protein, Fat, ,Vitamin, Mineral, Water

  When the food is digested, absorbed and utilized, it will become what nutrients?
• Protein, Carbohydrates, Fats, Water


  Macronutrients
• Protein


  Needed for growth, building, and repair of body tissues
• Protein


  Enough of this is essential to maintain muscle mass and strength, but eating more protein does not yield bigger muscle.
• Lack of Protein


  Signs and Symptoms: Ridges or white lines in both finger and toe nails; hair loss and thinning or brittle hair; muscle deterioration
• Carbohydrates


  Main source of energy
• Carbohydrates


  Maintains blood glucose level during exercise and replaces glycogen stores after exercise
• Lack of Carbohydrates


  Signs and Symptoms: Irritability, nausea, bad breath, muscle cramps, excess fatigue, increase in body fat, deficit in body sodium and water, constipation, regular headaches
• Fats


  Needed for waste removal, regulates body temperature, cushions the spinal cord and joints
• Lack of Fats


  Signs and Symptoms: Dehydration, muscle cramps, confusion, nausea, slurred speech, and disorientation
• Adequacy


  Eat an adequate amount of food, not too much.
• Balance


  Eat the right proportion from different categories of food.
• Variety


  Eat different types of food Go, Glow, and Grow categories.
• Water


  Needed for immune system function and helps the body store and use vitamins
• Water


  Stored fat provides enough energy for long endurance events
• Lack of Water


  Dry skin, hair loss, body weight deficiency, cold intolerance, bruising, slow growth, poor infection resistance and slow wound healing, loss of menstruation
• 60%


  How many % of the brain is composed of fats?
• 90%


  The brain consists of how many % of water?
• 83%


  Blood consists of how many % of water?
• 73%


  Muscle consists of how many % of water?
• 22%


  Bones consists of how many % of water?
• Vitamins and Minerals

  Micronutrients
• Vit A


  Help the body use carbohydrates, proteins, and fats
• Vit A


  Maintains healthy skin, bones, teeth, and hair; aids vision
• Lack of Vit A


  Anemia, painful joints, cracks in teeth, depression, frequent infections
• Vit B (B1, B2, B3) Vit B6


  Important in the production of energy from carbohydrates and fats
• Vit B (B1, B2, B3) Vit B6


  Needed to break down glycogen to release glucose and make hemoglobin that carries oxygen in the blood
• Lack of Vit B (B1, B2, B3) Vit B6


  Anemia, depression, convulsions, skin rashes
• Lack of Vit B (B1, B2, B3) Vit B6


  Anemia, nervous system degeneration, progressing to paralysis and hypersensitivity
• Thiamin

  Vitamin B1 is?
• Riboflavin

  Vitamin B2 is?
• Niacin

  Vitamin B3 is?
• Pyridoxine

  Vitamin B6 is?
• Pantothenic Acid

  Vitamin B5 is?
• Biotin

  Vitamin B7 is?
• Folate or Folic Acid


  Vitamin B9 is?
• Cobalamin


  Vitamin B12 is?