Eating and Exercise

Eating and Exercise During the simulation of the fictional patient, I learned many new things such as the importance of a diet. It is extremely beneficial to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables. As well as, to eat your fair share of meat for protein. Also carbohydrates, vitamins, fats, and fibers. It is essential to maintain a balanced diet because the diet helps us to achieve a long healthy life, controls body weight, and heart rate. Regular physical activity can produce long term health benefits. In the simulation, physical activity helped the patient lose weight or maintain homeostasis no matter the patient’s age, shape, and size. During the simulation, I saw that the more physical activity the patient did, the greater the health benefits rose. Exercise increased their living, stayed or got to a healthy weight, and their heart rate became normal. When the fictional patient did not have regular physical activity, the patient rapidly gained weight, the heart became strained or unusual, and the patient did not live a long life. Physical activity and nutrition works together for better health. Being active increases the amount of calories burned. As people age their metabolism slows, so maintaining energy balance requires moving more and eating less. Every organism on the planet relies on a internal mechanism, called homeostasis, to sustain life. If the mechanism can not overcome the forces that threaten it, then the system falls out of balance. In the worst cases, it fails completely. With the simulation of the fictional patient, if the body did not stay at a homeostatic state, then the patient either gained weight or lost weight. In both cases, the patient died. No matter the age or size of the patient, it was always possible for the patient to reach a homeostatic state. To reach this state, the patient either had to eat less or do more physical activity. Just by taking some basic steps, the body helped maintain its optimal homeostasis. The