Low carb? No fat? No thanks!

I've spent this week learning about the different essential nutrients. The ones on my course outline were carbs, fats and proteins but I also did a bit on minerals and vitamins. I've learned a bit about these last semester in Bio 12, but at a different angle then what I'm learning about now. I had no idea how important fat is to a diet!!! Considering you always here stuff about eating low fat/ no fat foods, they really aren't the evil thing the media is making them out to be. Its the same with carbs. I've also noticed that there are certain foods that keep coming up, obviously these are what they mean by superfoods! I was quite happy to see almonds show up so many times :)

I think I've just about finished what I'm going to do for this Unit and hopefully by the end of next week I will be able to hand in some sort of project, but it might have to be finished over the break. My goal for the weekend is to do my first recipe modification.

Metabolism and Physical activity

Okay so I've started my first unit! I've set up a plan for myself and Ive got about 2 weeks to finish this unit and then over spring break I will put together my first unit project. I'm hoping to do a recipe or two over spring break as well. This first unit is on how the body metabolizes food and uses different nutrients. Last week I did a lot of research on what metabolism is and how it relates to physical activity. Its really interesting how everything its all connected!

Getting Started!

Finally underway! This will be where I post what I am learning about each week in Nutrition and I will also post different recipes that I have modified to be healthier.