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AQA GCSE Science Biology Workbook Qs

This document appears to be a biology worksheet or study guide that covers topics related to diet, exercise, obesity, and their effects on health. It contains questions about food groups, deficiency diseases, metabolic rate, analyzing nutritional information in sample meals, factors that influence health, links between obesity and diseases like heart disease and cancer, differences in heart disease rates between men and women, and how exercise helps with weight loss. The questions are broken up across six pages and seem to be assessing a student's understanding of these topics.

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AQA GCSE Science Biology Workbook Qs

This document appears to be a biology worksheet or study guide that covers topics related to diet, exercise, obesity, and their effects on health. It contains questions about food groups, deficiency diseases, metabolic rate, analyzing nutritional information in sample meals, factors that influence health, links between obesity and diseases like heart disease and cancer, differences in heart disease rates between men and women, and how exercise helps with weight loss. The questions are broken up across six pages and seem to be assessing a student's understanding of these topics.

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Name: ____________________________

AQA GCSE Science

Biology

1. Diet and exercise

List the main food groups in a healthy diet

Key terms Deficiency Inherited Metabolic rate Obese

What might happen to a person if their diet is not balanced?

Name three deficiency diseases

How can exercise help in losing weight?

What inherited factors may affect our health?

What is the term metabolic rate?

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Name: ____________________________ The table shows six different meals A-F

Which meal contains the least sugar? Which meal contains most energy? Which meal contains the most salt?

The recommended daily amount of fat for a woman is 80g A woman eats meal D. What proportion of the recommended daily amount of fat does she get?

Which meal is the healthiest? Give two reasons for your answer.

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Name: ____________________________ Many people are obese (very overweight). Obesity can lead to heart disease. Other than heart disease, name two conditions which are linked to obesity.

The graph shows the number of deaths from heart disease each year in the UK.

The pattern for deaths from heart disease in men is different from the pattern in women. Give two differences between the patterns for men and women.

Suggest two reasons for the difference in the number of deaths from heart disease in men and women between the ages of 40 and 60.

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Name: ____________________________ Scientists estimate that about one third of cancers in the UK may be linked to obesity. Name two other diseases linked to obesity.

The graph shows the changes in the cancer rate and the changes in the percentage of obese adults in the UK from 1995 to 2006.

Does the data in the graph prove that obesity causes cancer?

Explain the reason for your answer.

Exercise helps a person to lose weight. Explain why.

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