That Sugar Film - A Look at Calories

Today we finished our unit on nutrition by finishing That Sugar Film, and by talking about metabolic disease and obesity. It was important for us to consider that weight is not a reliable indicator of health, and that even those who have "normal weight" could be suffering from a broken metabolism and metabolic disease.

In the short video below, we learned of a new paradigm for understanding why there is such a problem with metabolic disease in our country - one that views metabolism like a sink instead of like a balance and posits the path to health should focus on better quality foods instead of counting calories.

For the full slideshow click here.