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Read through your work, check you understand the topics covered so far.
1.How can inherited
factors affect your health?
Inheritance, Exercise and Health
3. Does exercise make you healthier?
2. Why does cholesterol
level matter?
• Features that have been genetically passed on from parents to their children.
Examples:
• Eye Colour• Hair Colour• Metabolism
1.How can inherited
factors affect your health?
What are inherited factors?
3. Does exercise make you healthier?
2. Why does cholesterol
level matter?
• Your muscle to fat ratio may be an inherited factor. Those with a high ratio have a high metabolic rate, which means they find it harder to put mass on.
1.How can inherited
factors affect your health?
What are inherited factors?
3. Does exercise make you healthier?
2. Why does cholesterol
level matter?
• The level of cholesterol in your blood may be another inherited factor.
1.How can inherited
factors affect your health?
What are inherited factors?
3. Does exercise make you healthier?
2. Why does cholesterol
level matter?
• Good (or HDL) cholesterol is used to make cell membranes and hormones.
• It also plays a role in removing bad cholesterol from the arteries
1.How can inherited
factors affect your health?
Is Cholesterol bad for you?
3. Does exercise make you healthier?
2. Why does cholesterol
level matter?
• Bad (or LDL) cholesterol increases the risk of heart disease and can lead to the formation of plaque in the arteries.
1.How can inherited
factors affect your health?
Is Cholesterol bad for you?
3. Does exercise make you healthier?
2. Why does cholesterol
level matter?
• Eating lots of high fat foods can raise levels of harmful cholesterol.
• 1 in 500 people inherit factors that mean they will have high levels of harmful cholesterol no matter how healthy their diet is!
• Statins are drugs that can reduce cholesterol.
1.How can inherited
factors affect your health?
How do you control cholesterol?
3. Does exercise make you healthier?
2. Why does cholesterol
level matter?
• “Increased exercise capacity reduces the risk of death in African-American and Caucasian men” Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
1.How can inherited
factors affect your health?
Is there proof that exercise is good for you?
3. Does exercise make you healthier?
2. Why does cholesterol
level matter?
• Veterans were tested by a standardized treadmill test to assess exercise capacity between May 1983 and December 2006
• These individuals were then followed for an average of 7.5 years and death rates were recorded.
• The least active men were 4.5 times more likely to die than the most active men.
1.How can inherited
factors affect your health?
Is there proof that exercise is good for you?
3. Does exercise make you healthier?
2. Why does cholesterol
level matter?
• You are less likely to be overweight because you will be using more energy.
1.How can inherited
factors affect your health?
Why is exercise good for you?
3. Does exercise make you healthier?
2. Why does cholesterol
level matter?
• You will have more muscle tissue which will increase your metabolic rate.
1.How can inherited
factors affect your health?
Why is exercise good for you?
3. Does exercise make you healthier?
2. Why does cholesterol
level matter?
• Your harmful blood cholesterol levels go down, and your good cholesterol levels go up.
1.How can inherited
factors affect your health?
Why is exercise good for you?
3. Does exercise make you healthier?
2. Why does cholesterol
level matter?
• Your risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, type two diabetes therefore goes down.
1.How can inherited
factors affect your health?
Why is exercise good for you?
3. Does exercise make you healthier?
2. Why does cholesterol
level matter?
Q1. What is an inherited factor? (1)Q2. Why may a person find it difficult
to put on mass even though they eat 3000 calories a day? (2)
Q3. Why is cholesterol level an important factor in keeping healthy? (3)
Q4. Why is exercise good for you?(4)Total: 10 marks
1.How can inherited
factors affect your health?
Can you answer these questions in full sentences?
3. Does exercise make you healthier?
2. Why does cholesterol
level matter?