Nutrition

As we're finished with the nutrition section, I tohught I'd post some points that we should all understand from this section.

• What is meant by a 'balanced diet', and an example of each of the seven food groups.
• Be able to define metabolism, and which process uses the majority of the energy we eat (it's  the one you don't have to think about to do).
• Understand that diferent foods have different amounts of energy per gram - if you're not sure about this one look at the previous post below this one.

With 10x2 we saw a short video about scurvy.  This is a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C, and was common in sailors who often had long voyages with no fresh food for months or years at a time. There are some good photos of the symptoms described here if you put 'scurvy' into google.