My Nutrition Unit So Far
Over the past three months, I have broadened my understanding of nutrition in my core NEW. My learning and capabilities have been enhanced in English, Technology, and Bio Science from the nutrition unit my class has delved into. In this unit I have not only studied what we eat, but also how and why we eat. In Science, I learned about three major functions of the human body and plants, focusing on the intake or creation of energy to support life. My first lab was about animal cell respiration, In which I learned how ATP (energy) is produced from sugar and oxygen. This was important to know because it perfectly ties into our unit, since it demonstrated the fact that what substances we eat are exactly what enters this process (simple, yet it is not common to think about), which is especially critical because this is one of the processes that keeps us alive. Something I always remember now as I eat is that everything I put into my body has to go through this entire system, meani