HSS 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ketone Bodies, Ketosis, Healthy Diet

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 1100
• Professor: James Gomes

Document Summary

Involving in sufficient and appropriate amount of social life. Eating the right food at the right time. Involving in sufficient amount of physical activity. Taking adequate amount of rest and relaxation. Healthy lifestyle refers to those choices and behaviours an individual makes to better one"s health. These choices and behaviours the individual"s health is positively affected. Among the many individual factors that affect health, individual choices and behaviours is the most important factor. Some of these choices and behaviours are conscious efforts on the part of the individual, while others result from positive impact by the family and the community. Healthy lifestyle of an individual may affect the individual"s health actively (a better general health) or passively by reducing the overall morbidity. Eating food is essential to provide body with energy and to maintain the necessary body functions. Many factors influence what we eat, when we eat and how much we eat. Sensory stimulus, such as smell, sight, taste.