Why Might Physical Activity, and Especially Resistance Exercise, Actually Decrease

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Essay

Why might physical activity, and especially resistance exercise, actually decrease a person’s dietary protein requirements?

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Definitions:

Poor Diet

A diet lacking in nutrition and essential nutrients leading to health problems.

Epidemiologic Transition

A phase of development witnessed by a sudden and stark increase in population growth rates brought by medical innovation in disease or disease control.

Mortality

The incidence of death within a population; the rate at which deaths occur in a particular population, typically expressed per thousand individuals per year.

Demographic Transition

The transition from high birth and death rates to lower birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.