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Nutrition and Your Personal Fitness

Nutrition and Your Personal Fitness. Chapter 4. BMR Lab. Basal Metabolic Rate: the rate at which oxygen is used by body cells, or the calculated equivalent heat production by the body, in a fasting subject at complete rest. Abbreviated BMR . What does this mean?

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Nutrition and Your Personal Fitness

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  1. Nutrition and Your Personal Fitness Chapter 4

  2. BMR Lab • Basal Metabolic Rate: the rate at which oxygen is used by body cells, or the calculated equivalent heat production by the body, in a fasting subject at complete rest. Abbreviated BMR. • What does this mean? • How many calories your body burns in a state of complete rest. • Factors that affect the BMR • Age • Gender • Eating Habits (small meals throughout the day) • Eliminating Calories • Can reduce the BRM by 50-75 percent

  3. The Importance of Nutrition • Nutrients- substances in food that your body needs for energy, proper growth, body maintenance, and functioning. • Carbohydrates • Fats • Protein • Vitamins • Minerals • Water • Nutrition- the study of food and how your body uses the substances in food

  4. Choosing Foods Wisely • Dietary Guidelines • Aim for fitness • Build a healthy base • Choose Sensibly • Nutrition Resource • MyPyramid

  5. Nutrition Label

  6. Developing Healthful Eating Habits • The importance of eating breakfast: • Is breakfast the most important meal of the day? • Replace energy stores upon waking up • Improve mental performance • Maintaining healthy weight • Helps prevent overeating throughout the day • Snacking • Improves metabolic rate • Choose healthy snacks • Plan your snacks

  7. Nutrition and Peak Performance • When you play hard your body provides you with energy by burning calories.

  8. Fuel for Performance • Pre-Event Meal: is the last full meal consumed prior to a practice session or the completion itself.

  9. Post-Event Eating: Restoration • Restoration: the process of rebuilding and refueling after activity

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