Balanced Diet

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Different food types and their make-up.

A look at different food types in a market assessing their primary functions in the body. Foods are categorized in terms of their main components - looking at numbers of calories, vitamins contained, protein levels and proportion of each foodstuff containg fibre, fat, salt etc.
From: GCSE Bitesize Revision Science 2: Biology
First Broadcast : 20 April 2002

Teachers' notes

Age Group : 9-11,11-14,14-16

Subject : Biology, Science

Topic : Humans as organisms, Life processes and living things, Life processes and living things

Keywords : Nutrition, Diet, Food, Foodstuffs

Notes : Investigation into different parts of food with respect to diet. Explore their different functions. Good video clip, for revision and as a teaching aid. Pupils can easily extract detail from the clip and jot them down in a table.

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