Nutrition

Today we reviewed nutrition and the Harvard Fat article. What did you learn from it about carbohydrates and in particular refined sugars?  What did it say about fats? saturated vs unsaturated?

Here is a link to the site: Harvard. To the right is a graphic of what is recommended as a Healthy Plate.

In your lab (although we did not do this portion), it asked you to weigh out the amount of sugar in one coke. Here is an image of what that looks like with several types of drinks.










Here is another article by Harvard but this one is on carbs. Why is refined sugar a problem?