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Exercise has both long term and short term effects on the body.
Short term effects include increased heart rate, increased cardiac output (volume of blood pumped out by the heart each minute, incr...
An increase in blood flow to the skeletal muscles means that more glucose and oxygen is delivered to the muscles via the blood. These are both needed in aerobic respiration to produce ATP/ energy for musc...
The temperature of the body is detected by the thermoregulatory centre in the hypothalamus in the brain, which can detect the temperature of the blood. Therefore it recieves information about changes to t...
Firstly, the intercostal muscles contract. This causes the ribcage to move upwards and outwards. The diaphragm also contracts. This all has the combined effect of increasing the volume of the lungs. As a ...
The control of different substances in the body keeping them at a stable equilibrium level is called homeostasis. One area of this is blood sugar level control, if blood sugar level is too high or too low...
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