What I know, or have heard about sugar.

What are the sources that provide us with information?

What themes/messages do you expect to see?

Predict: What will happen to Damon after his 60 day experiment?

Glucose

Complex Carbohydrate

What could explain why some foods raise blood sugar faster than others?

Evaluating Nutrition Facts

Current

Future (2018)

What changes do you notice?

How to complete your table:

1. calculate tsp per serving by dividing the grams of sugar per serving by 4
   • see board for example
      
2. serving size in grams can be found on Nutrition Facts (serving size 43 g)
    
3. amount of sugar per 100g can be found by setting up a proportion
   
   
   
    
4. for types of sugar look to ingredients on label

13g Sugar

43g Oatmeal

X g Sugar

100g Oatmeal

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Glue this page into your Journal

What are some things you find interesting about this data?

Supposedly

Metabolism Works Like a Balance

energy in

energy out

• a calorie is a calorie
   
• just balance calories in with calories out
   
• calories are all that matter

Our Metabolism Works More Like a Drain

Supposedly

Metabolism Works Like a Balance

energy in

energy out

• a calorie is a calorie
   
• just balance calories in with calories out
   
• calories are all that matter

Balancing Calories is Difficult

We are generally told that in order to control our weight we need to balance our calories by eating less and exercising more. 

Eating Less

(tell your body there is no food)

• metabolism goes down to conserve energy
• physical activity decreases to conserve energy
• muscles is burned for fuel

Exercise More

(tell your body there is no food)

• body extracts more calories from food
• metabolism goes down to conserve energy
• hunger increases to acquire energy