CARE OF THE BODY SYSTEMS STUDY SHEET
Objective:
Your body needs exercise to work properly. Exercise keeps bones, joints and muscles strong and healthy. Exercise can help prevent osteoporosis. Joints can become more flexible with exercise, decreasing the risk to getting arthritis. Strong muscles can work harder for longer periods of time. This strength allows you to do more things and do them more easily. The circulatory and respiratory systems also benefit from exercise. Exercise strengthens the heart, because the heart works faster during exercise. A strong heart can pump blood through the body more easily. Exercise also strengthens the organs used for breathing. A strong respiratory system allows a person to be active without running out of breath. Exercise also produces a healthier digestive system, and nervous system.
Eating Healthy Foods:
Food provides nutrients for all your body systems. The body uses nutrient to grow, get energy, repair, stay healthy and live longer. Eating a variety of foods will give your body the right nutrients. Vitamins and minerals from fruits and vegetables help a person grow and regulate body functions. Protein from meat, eggs, dried bean, dairy, and varieties of nuts helps build strong muscles and tissues. Carbohydrates from grains are a good source of energy, and the right kinds of fat are help maintain body functions and are a source of energy.
Sleep:
Sleep is important for physical and mental health. A person deprived of sleep will die faster than a person derived of food. Sleep is a time to reduce awareness and the body systems slow down. This is also the time the body grows and repairs itself. Without enough sleep many organs will not work correctly. Scientists don’t know exactly what happen when the body sleeps, but they do know that sleep helps repair the body and is essential to good health.
Water:
Your body is 70% water. Water helps the body systems work correctly. Water is a major part of the blood in the body. Lack of water decreases the amount of blood in the body. The digestive system depends on water to regulate nutrients. The lack of water means fewer nutrients will reach the body. Water also flushes out waste, poisons and excess fats. Water helps to control the body temperature. A person should be drinking half their body weight in ounces each day. That is to replace water that is lost by the body during urination, breathing, and sweating. If it is hot or you are exercising you may need to drink more water than that each day.
Objective:
- Name ways to care for the body systems
- Explain how the care of the body systems affect health
Your body needs exercise to work properly. Exercise keeps bones, joints and muscles strong and healthy. Exercise can help prevent osteoporosis. Joints can become more flexible with exercise, decreasing the risk to getting arthritis. Strong muscles can work harder for longer periods of time. This strength allows you to do more things and do them more easily. The circulatory and respiratory systems also benefit from exercise. Exercise strengthens the heart, because the heart works faster during exercise. A strong heart can pump blood through the body more easily. Exercise also strengthens the organs used for breathing. A strong respiratory system allows a person to be active without running out of breath. Exercise also produces a healthier digestive system, and nervous system.
Eating Healthy Foods:
Food provides nutrients for all your body systems. The body uses nutrient to grow, get energy, repair, stay healthy and live longer. Eating a variety of foods will give your body the right nutrients. Vitamins and minerals from fruits and vegetables help a person grow and regulate body functions. Protein from meat, eggs, dried bean, dairy, and varieties of nuts helps build strong muscles and tissues. Carbohydrates from grains are a good source of energy, and the right kinds of fat are help maintain body functions and are a source of energy.
Sleep:
Sleep is important for physical and mental health. A person deprived of sleep will die faster than a person derived of food. Sleep is a time to reduce awareness and the body systems slow down. This is also the time the body grows and repairs itself. Without enough sleep many organs will not work correctly. Scientists don’t know exactly what happen when the body sleeps, but they do know that sleep helps repair the body and is essential to good health.
Water:
Your body is 70% water. Water helps the body systems work correctly. Water is a major part of the blood in the body. Lack of water decreases the amount of blood in the body. The digestive system depends on water to regulate nutrients. The lack of water means fewer nutrients will reach the body. Water also flushes out waste, poisons and excess fats. Water helps to control the body temperature. A person should be drinking half their body weight in ounces each day. That is to replace water that is lost by the body during urination, breathing, and sweating. If it is hot or you are exercising you may need to drink more water than that each day.