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Nutrients Ted Talk Assignment

The document discusses nutrition and food topics including calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and water. It contains questions and answers about videos on these topics. Key points covered include how the body uses and stores calories, the types and functions of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, and the importance of drinking water daily.

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Nutrients Ted Talk Assignment

The document discusses nutrition and food topics including calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and water. It contains questions and answers about videos on these topics. Key points covered include how the body uses and stores calories, the types and functions of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, and the importance of drinking water daily.

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Foods and Nutrition

Name: Colton Webb


Ted Ed Nutrition Videos
Date: 4/29/20 Period: 1B

Directions: Watch the videos found in the links below. After watching the videos, answer
the questions for that video. If any of the links don’t work, do an Internet search to find the answers.

Video #1: What is a calorie? https://goo.gl/42kbfM


1. What are calories? Keep track of the bodies energy budget.
2. What happens to our bodies if we consume more calories than we burn?
It will be stored as fat and we will gain weight.
3. What are the three ways your bodies use calories?
a. 10% in digestion
b. 20% Physical Activity
c. 70% Basic Functions

4. What are the consequences of not eating well? (List at least 3 examples.)
a. Malnourishment
b. Weight gain
c. Loss of energy

Video #2: What are carbohydrates? https://goo.gl/drQHRC


1. True or false: A simple sugar is another name for a monosaccharide or
Disaccharide.
2. Where are carbohydrates broken down? Small Intestine
3. What category would starch and fiber (cellulose) fall under? Polysaccharides
4. Which food will raise your blood sugar faster? High Glycemic Index foods

Video #3: What is fat? https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-fat-george-zaidan


1. Fill in the blank: Fat is made up of __Triglyceride_____, molecules that are all different (SHAPE
and SIZE) and determine how GOOD or BAD fat is for you.
2. Fill in the blank: Most __unsaturated______ fats are GOOD for you!
3. What kinds of foods do you think have TRANS FATS in them?
HINT: Think of food that never goes bad. Mayonnaise, Peanut butter
4. What ingredient on a food label also means "trans-fat"?
Partially hydrogenated

Video #4: What is Protein? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzBGa8KnM3Q


1. What percent of your body is made up of amino acids? 75%
2. Our body requires __21__ amino acids. We can make ___9___ amino acids and the
remaining __12____ must come from food we eat.
3. How many extra grams of protein should athletes eat a day?
20 grams more

Video #5: How do vitamins work? https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-s-the-value-of-vitamins-ginnie-


trinh-nguyenins

1. True or False: Vitamins are the compounds that we need to keep our body
running.
2. True or False: Our bodies produce all the vitamins we need.
3. What are the two types of vitamins?
a. Vitamin C
b. Vitamin B complex
c. Lipid Vitamins
4. What moves fat soluble vitamins around in the bloodstream?
Through the stomach and intestine. Proteins
5. What vitamin helps fight infection?
Vitamin C

Video #6: What would happen if we don’t drink water? https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-would-


happen-if-you-didn-t-drink-water-mia-nacamulli

1. The average human is between _55%_____ and ___60%___ water?


2. An adult’s brain and heart are almost ____3/4___ water.
3. In what organ does your body absorb water? Blood in the Kidneys
4. Why could your brain shrink? Works harder which causes it too to shrink
5. How many liters of water should you drink a day? 2.5-3.7 liters for men and 2.2.- 2.7 for women
6. How else can you get water besides drinking water? Water in food.

What are three things you have learned from this assignment?

a. Carbohydrates are broken down in the small intestine.

b. Should be drinking between 2.5-3.7 liters of water a day

c. Your brain shrinks when you don’t have enough water

What are three specific things you would like to do to improve your diet?

a. More Amino Acids

b. More Water
c. Less trans fats

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