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Eating & Exercise

How many calories are in your favorite foods? How much exercise would you have to do to burn off these calories? What is the relationship between calories and weight? Explore these issues by choosing diet and exercise and keeping an eye on your weight.

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Topics

Main Topics

  • Biology
  • Food
  • Exercise
  • Energy

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Sample Learning Goals

  • Design a diet and exercise regimen.
  • Estimate the number of calories required for basic survival.
  • Estimate the number of calories burned by exercise.
  • Explain how heart health depends on diet and exercise.
  • Explain how Body Mass Index (BMI) depends on weight and height.

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Ascending Sort (Z-A)Title Author Level Type Updated
Guided Discovery: BMI, BMR, Calories in/out S. VendomeMS
HS		Other
Lab		5/09

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Software Requirements

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Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7
Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later
 OS 10.4.11 or later
Apple Java 1.5.0_19 or later
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Credits

Design Team Third-party Libraries Thanks To
  • Wendy Adams
  • Noah Podolefsky
  • Kathy Perkins
  • Kate Semsar
  • Franny Benay
  • Sam Reid (developer)
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