Physical Health Physical Activity and Nutrition What is

Physical Health Physical Activity and Nutrition

What is a calorie? • Calorie – A unit of measure for both the energy supplied by food and energy used by the body • To maintain weight, burn the same amount of calories that you put in your body

How do I burn calories? • Metabolism - The rate at which the body converts food to energy • Your body burns calories at different rates for each person. • Exercise increases calories burned

What is exercise? • To burn more calories, exercise is important. • List 3 activities that would be considered exercise:

Heart Rate and Burning Calories • • BPM: Beats Per Minute Max Heart Rate: 220 – Age Resting Heart Rate: BPM while at rest Target heart Rate: 65% - 85% of your max heart rate

• • 1) 2) 3) 4) Find Max Heart Rate: 220 – Age Find 65% of Max Heart Rate Find 85% of Max Heart Rate Find Resting Heart Rate

Food labels

• • • 1. What size is one serving of this food? ________ 2. How many grams of saturated fat does one serving of this food have? _____ 3. What percent of the daily value of dietary fiber will you get from eating one serving of this food? ________ 4. How many grams of protein will you get from eating two servings of this food? _____ 5. Why is the Nutrition Facts label a good source of information about food? _____________________________________________________________________________ ______