In this unit one of the main topics is our health.
To begin with this unit let's watch the video from the link below:
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-sugar-affects-the-brain-nicole-avena
Once you hace seen the video on that page go to the part called "Think" answer the questions and from the video extract 10 keywords and classify them as nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc.
Then, do the reading "Just Juice" and complete exercise 3 on page 70 in your books.
Post your answers as a comment below.
Jose Luis Segura
ResponderBorrarThink
1. Sugars are added to processed foods such as tomate sauce, dried fruit, and granola bars
2. Sugar activates the brain's reward system
3. Overstimulation of the reward system may result in
all of the above
4. What important chemical in the brain is changed in response to sugar ingestion?
Dopamine
5. What kind of diet has en effect in the brain that is similar to eating a balance meal?
Eating sugary foods once in a while
6. Describe how eating sugar can lead to greater cravings, loss of control, and increased tolerance
by affecting the cortex system in the brain and inducing dopamine, It over estimates the rewarding system
in our brain.
7. What other stimuli activate this system and what are similar behaviors seen between them and
sugar overconsumption?
Drugs, sex and social interaction also activates the brain's reward system.
The craving and that it do not lowers over time the brain's reward system activation.
8. How does brain signaling differ between chronic sugar overconsumption and a regular balanced meal?
Regular balanced meal spikes and the reduces the stimuli overtime, while sugary food does not
reduces the stimuli over time but rather stay put at the peek.
10 key words
sugar.- noun
brain.- noun
affect.- verb
carbohydrate.- noun
glucose.- noun
fructose.- noun
sucrose.- noun
maltose.- noun
lactose.- noun
dextrose.- noun
starch.- noun
crave.- verb
tongue.- noun
9A 3a
1. You only drink organic fruits and vegetables in this retreat.
2. Joanne was a bit nervous maybe even rather terrified by the idea.
3. Louise was the woman that shared the room with Joanne at the retreat.
4. correct
5. Joanne had a headache and felt like she was getting a cold, on the second day.
6. correct
7. Joanne is more careful about what she eats but still can not leave without
her morning cappuccinos.
9A 3b
1. No I would not like to go on a retreat like the one in the article. I like
my current diet the way it is.
2. No I have not met anyone that has done on a retreat like this.
Think section
ResponderBorrar1. Sugars are added to processed foods such as tomato sauce, dried fruit, and granola bars.
2.Sugar activates the brain’s reward system.
3. Overstimulation of the reward system may result in all of the above (loss of control, craving, increased tolerance).
4.What important chemical in the brain is changed in response to sugar ingestion? Dopamine
5.What kind of diet has an effect in the brain that is similar to eating a balanced meal?
Eating sugary food in a non-regular way has a similar effect in the brain.
6.Briefly describe how eating sugar can lead to greater cravings, loss of control, and increased tolerance.
By eating sugar, your brain's reward system is activated and eventually an excess of sugar leads to dopamine overdrive.
7.What other stimuli activate this system and what are similar behaviors seen between them and sugar overconsumption?
Drugs, social interaction and sexual activity are other stimuli that activate this system, and they all can cause loss of control, craving and increased tolerance.
8.How does brain signaling differ between chronic sugar overconsumption and a regular balanced meal?
A regular balanced meal can produce dopamine to spike the reward system, however if the same food is eaten regularly, the levels of dopamine would become lower gradually (as if eating the same food becomes boring).On the otherside, chronic sugar overconsumption will always make the brain feel rewarded.
Keywords:
Overdose-noun
Dopamine-noun
Reward-noun
Carbohydrate-noun
Insulin-noun
Receptor-noun
Transmitter-noun
Crave-verb
Signal-noun
Exercise 3.
3.a.
1.False. You only drink fresh organic fruit and vegetable juices on the retreat.
2.False. Joanne was feeling a bit nervous and the idea of the retreat sounded rather terrifying for her.
3.False. Louis had been on the retreat four times.
4.True
5.False. On the second day of the retreat, Joanne had an awful headache and she was getting cold.
6.True
7.False. Joanne is much more careful about what she eats, however that does not imply that she has changed her diet. Also, she still has her morning cappuccinos.
3.b.
1. I would not like to go on a retreat like the one in the article because I love food, and I consider there are other ways of getting rid of toxins.
2. I do not know someone who has been on a retreat like the one in the article.
There's a keyword missing.
ResponderBorrarAddicted-adjective
Think section
ResponderBorrar1. Sugars are added to processed foods such as tomato sauce, dried fruit, and granola bars.
2.Sugar activates the brain’s reward system.
3. Overstimulation of the reward system may result in all of the above (loss of control, craving, increased tolerance).
4.What important chemical in the brain is changed in response to sugar ingestion? Dopamine
5.What kind of diet has an effect in the brain that is similar to eating a balanced meal?
Eating sugary food in a non-regular way has a similar effect in the brain.
6.Briefly describe how eating sugar can lead to greater cravings, loss of control, and increased tolerance.
By eating sugar, your brain's reward system is activated and eventually an excess of sugar leads to dopamine overdrive.
7.What other stimuli activate this system and what are similar behaviors seen between them and sugar overconsumption?
Drugs, social interaction and sexual activity are other stimuli that activate this system, and they all can cause loss of control, craving and increased tolerance.
8.How does brain signaling differ between chronic sugar overconsumption and a regular balanced meal?
A regular balanced meal can produce dopamine to spike the reward system, however if the same food is eaten regularly, the levels of dopamine would become lower gradually (as if eating the same food becomes boring).On the otherside, chronic sugar overconsumption will always make the brain feel rewarded.
Keywords:
tongue.- noun
Dopamine-noun
Reward-noun
Carbohydrate-noun
glucose.- noun
Transmitter-noun
lactose.- noun
Signal-noun
brain.- noun
. You only drink fresh organic fruit and vegetable juices on the retreat. (False)
Joanne was feeling a bit nervous and the idea of the retreat sounded rather terrifying for her. (False)
Louis had been on the retreat four times. (False)
4.(True)
On the second day of the retreat, Joanne had an awful headache and she was getting cold.(False)
6.(True)
Joanne is much more careful about what she eats Also, she still has her morning cappuccinos. (False)
3B
-I do not like to get rid of the toxins that way, I would not go into retirement
-I do not know anyone who is released from toxins that way
"Think"
ResponderBorrar1- Sugars are added to processed foods such as tomato sauce, dried fruit, and granola bars.
2- Sugar activates the brain’s reward system.
3- Overstimulation of the reward system may result in all of the above.
4- What important chemical in the brain is changed in response to sugar ingestion? Dopamine..
5- What kind of diet has an effect in the brain that is similar to eating a balanced meal? Eating sugary foods once in a while.
6- Briefly describe how eating sugar can lead to greater cravings, loss of control, and increased tolerance.
The brain's reward system is activated and an excess of sugar leads to dopamine overdrive, by eating sugar.
7- What other stimuli activate this system and what are similar behaviors seen between them and sugar overconsumption?
Drugs, sex and social interaction also activates the brain’s reward system. Losses of control, craving and increased tolerance are some of the behavior they can cause.
8- How does brain signaling differ between chronic sugar overconsumption and a regular balanced meal?
When you eat the same food (even it's healthy food), the levels of dopamine would become lower gradually, and sugar foods overconsumption will always make the brain feel rewarded.
Key words:
Carbohydrates (noun)
Sugar (noun)
Glucose (noun)
Fructose (noun)
Sucrose (noun)
Insulin (noun)
Dopamine (noun)
Crave (verb)
Addicted (adjective)
Maltose (noun)
Exercise 3a
1- You only drink vegetable juice on the retreat. (F)
You only drink fresh organic fruits and vegetables juices.
2- Joanne wasn't looking forward to the experience.
Joanne was feeling a bit nervous and the idea of the retreat sounded rather terrifying.
3- Louise worked at the retreat centre. (F)
Louise had been on the retreat four times.
4- Fasting helps your body get rid of toxins (T)
5- Joanne felt fine on day two of the retreat. (F)
On the second day she had an awful headach and felt as if she was a cold.
6- The fifth day was easier than the third day. (T)
7- Joanne has changed her diet since the retreat.
Now she is more careful about wthat she eat, but she stiil drinking "her morning cappuccinos"
Exercise 3b
1-Yes I would, because it sounds very interesting and healthy, and when it's about health, I'm open to try new things.
2- No I don't know anyone to go on a retreat like this.
Think:
ResponderBorrar1- Added to
2- Activates
3- All of the above
4- Dopamine
5- Eating sugary foods once in a while
6- When we eat sugar a reward system makes us want to get more.
7- Drugs, social interaction and sex can activate the reward system, and so they could cause loss of control, craving and increase tolerance.
8- The brain signaling does not differ between chronic sugar overconsumption and a balanced meal, this only applies if the same balanced meal is consumed regularly.
Keywords:
Dopamine-noun
Receptor-noun
To consume- verb
To affect- Verb
Bitter- Adjective
Reward-Noun
Drugs-Noun
Sweet-Adjective
To crave- Verb
To spike- Verb
3a:
1- False, you also drink fruit juices
2-true
3-False, she was a guest
4- true
5- False, she had a headache and felt as if she was getting a cold
6- true
7-partially true, now she is more careful about wat she eats but she keeps drinking a cappuccino every morning
3b:
1-No, if was to follow a diet I'd rather do it at home
2- I don't no anyone who has gone on a retreat like this
Link:
ResponderBorrar1. Sugars are added to processed foods such as tomato sauce, dried fruit, and granola bars.
2. Sugar activates the brain’s reward system.
3. Overstimulation of the reward system may result in all of the above
4. What important chemical in the brain is changed in response to sugar ingestion? Dopamine
5. What kind of diet has an effect in the brain that is similar to eating a balanced meal? Eating sugary foods all the time *
6. By eating sugar, your brain's reward system is activated
7. The socialization, sexual behavior and drug also activate the reward system. The sugar and another stimulus cause loss of control, craving and increased tolerance.
8. ¿En qué difiere la señalización cerebral entre el consumo excesivo de azúcar crónica y una comida balanceada regular? Dopamine levels. For example, when we have a regular balanced meal, the dopamine levels do not increase; but when we have a chronic sugar overconsumption, the dopamine levels do not level it.
Keywords
• Brain: noun
• Sugar: noun
• Dopamine: noun
• Drugs: noun
• Insulin: noun
• Activate: verb
• Addict: noun
• Glucose: noun
• Sweet: adjective
• Receptor: noun
3a.
1. F: You drink vegetable and fruit juice on the retreat
2. T
3. F: Louse had been on the retreat four times
4. T
5. Joanne had an awful headache
6. T
7. F: Joanne is much more carfeul about she eats; but she can´t live without her cappucinos
3b.
1. No, because I usually eats well and I love drink fruit juice
2. No, I don't know anyone who has been on a retreat like this
*Think*
ResponderBorrar1. Added to
2. Activates
3. All of the above
4. Insulin
5. Eating sugary foods once in a while
6. When you eat sugar, your brain's reward system will release a sort of neurotransmitters, the most important of these is dopamine. If you keep eating too much sugar, your rewaerd system will increase its tolerance, so it will keep telling to your body to eat sugar.
7. Similar stimuli have been observed with alcohol, heroin, and tobacco
8. With a balanced meal, the brain signaling decreases over a period, because the lack of variety; on the other hand, sugar overconsumption leads to a increase of the tolerance of the stimuli
*Words*
Glucose-Noun
Sugary-Adjective
Forebrain-Noun
Cortex-Noun
Insulin-Noun
Dopamine-Noun
Gut-Noun
Electrical-Adjective
Neurotransmitter-Noun
Cluster-Noun
*Exercise 3A*
1. False, you drink fruit and vegetable juice on the retreat
2. True
3. False, Louise has stayed on the retreat center four times.
4. True
5. False, she began the day with a headached and feeling like getting a cold
6. True
7. False, she is now more careful about what she eats, but that doesn't means that she changed completely her diet; also, she can't still live without her cappuccinos
*Exercise 3B*
1. In my case, I wouldn't like to go, I love food so much, and also, I help my body to get rid of everything that isn't needed through sport.
2. No, I've met someone who has gone to a retreat.
Think section.
ResponderBorrar1. Sugars are added to processed foods such as tomato sauce, dried fruit, and granola bars.
2.Sugar activates the brain’s reward system.
3. Overstimulation of the reward system may result in all of the above (loss of control, craving, increased tolerance).
4.What important chemical in the brain is changed in response to sugar ingestion? Dopamine
5.What kind of diet has an effect in the brain that is similar to eating a balanced meal?
Eating sugary food in a non-regular way has a similar effect in the brain.
6.Briefly describe how eating sugar can lead to greater cravings, loss of control, and increased tolerance.
By eating sugar, your brain's reward system is activated and eventually an excess of sugar leads to dopamine overdrive.
7.What other stimuli activate this system and what are similar behaviors seen between them and sugar overconsumption?
Drugs, social interaction and sexual activity are other stimuli that activate this system, and they all can cause loss of control, craving and increased tolerance.
8.How does brain signaling differ between chronic sugar overconsumption and a regular balanced meal?
A regular balanced meal can produce dopamine to spike the reward system, however if the same food is eaten regularly, the levels of dopamine would become lower gradually (as if eating the same food becomes boring).On the otherside, chronic sugar overconsumption will always make the brain feel rewarded.
Keywords:
Overdose-noun
Dopamine-noun
Reward-noun
Carbohydrate-noun
Insulin-noun
Receptor-noun
EXERCISE 3.
3B
1 F You only drink fresh organic fruit and vegetable juices on the retreat.
2 F Joanne was feeling a bit nervous and the idea of the retreat sounded rather terrifying for her.
3 F Louis had been on the retreat four times.
4 T
5 F On the second day of the retreat, Joanne had an awful headache and she was getting cold.
6 T
7 F Joanne is much more careful about what she eats, however that does not imply that she has changed her diet. Also, she still has her morning cappuccinos.
3B
1. I would not like to go on a retreat like the one in the article because I love food, and I consider there are other ways of getting rid of toxins.
2. I do not know someone who has been on a retreat like the one in the article.
1. Added to
ResponderBorrar2. Activates
3. All of the above
4. Dopamine
5. Eating sugary meals once in a while
6. When someone eats sugar brain system is activated and one of the parts that start working is the cerebral cortex that process the different tastes, this activates the reward system and this is what lead to greater cravings, loss of control, and increased tolerance.
7. Drugs, social interaction and sexual activity also activates the reward system, all of them cause the same behaviors loss of control, craving and increased tolerance.
8. Balanced meals also also produce dopamine but if it is always the same meals the dopamine is reduced, but the chronic sugar overconsumption always activates in the same way the reward system so it always release the same amount of dopamine.
Keywords
Sugar - noun
Brain - noun
Carbohydrate - noun
Starch - noun
Crave - verb
Receptors - noun
Signal - noun
Dopamine - noun
Addicted - adjective
Nutrients - noun
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3a.
1. You only drink vegetable and fruit juices on the retreat.
2. True
3. Louise was her roommate
4. True
5. Joanne has a headache the second day and felt like she was getting a cold.
6. True
7. True
3b.
1. I’m not sure it looks like an interesting experience but I don’t really like the idea of just drinking juice.
2. I don’t know anyone that has been in a retreat like that.
Ted
ResponderBorrar1. A / Added to
2. C / Activates
3. D / All of the above
4. D / Dopamine
5. A / Eating sugary food once in a while
6. Because the brain starts to have the same response to sugar that it has to drugs
7. Drugs, other activities as sexual or having fun with your friends.
8. With a balance diet your dopamine levels with be high and have a little increase but with a sugar diet you will be having lower dopamine levels each time you keep eating sugar.
Sugar / Noun
Glucose / Noun
Sweet taste receptors / Noun
Cerebral Cortex / Noun
Sweet / Adjective
Over activating / Adverb
Tolerance / verb
Stomach / noun
Insulin / Noun
Dopamine / noun
3a
1. Also they use fresh organic food
2. She was nervous
3. She was in the program
4. T
5. She felted really bad on the second day
6. T
7. No, she still needs her morning cappuccinos
3b
1. Yes, I would like to see how it feels this experience.
2. No, I don’t know any one
Video
ResponderBorrar1. Added to
2. Activates
3. All of the above
4. Dopamine
5. Eating sugary foods once in a while
6. Eating sugary foods regularly can result in greater cravings, loss of control, and increased tolerance, which basically means that the more sugar you consume the better you will feel because of this organic compound called dopamine.
7. Eating sugar has similar effects of those triggered by drugs, social interaction and sex.
8. Eating too much sugar will always be regarded and will make you feel good about yourself because the dopamine levels spike but eating the same meal everyday would get your nervous system bored and will push you to try new meals.
Keywords:
Receptor- noun
signals- noun
reward system- noun
glucose- noun
tolerance- noun
dopamine- noun
sweet- adjective
neuroreceptor- noun
crave- verb
activate- verb
ex. 3
1. You also drink fruit juices
2. Joanne was nervous
3. Louise was the woman that the narrator was sharing the room with
4. True
5. On day 2 she had a headache
6. T
7. T
3b.
I would actually like to go to a retreat like the one the article talks about because I feel comfortable with the purification and this whole holistic culture. It helps you realize and be aware of the connection that your body has with whatever it is that you believe in.
2. No, I have never met a person who has gone to a retreat of this kind.
1) Added to
ResponderBorrar2) Activates
3) All of the above
4) Dopamine
5) Eating sugary once in a while
6) The brain responses to sugar with the same response as drugs
7) Drugs, social interaction with friends and sexual activity
8) Balanced meals produce the necesary dopamine but with excess of sugar you will be having lower dopamine levels of dopamine
KEYWORDS
Addicted -> adjective
Receptors -> noun
Sugar ->noun
Starch -> noun
Brain -> noun
Nutrients -> noun
Crave -> verb
Carbohydrate -> noun
Dopamine -> noun
Signal -> noun
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1) You only drink vegetable and fruit juices on the retreat.
2) True
3) Louise was her roommate
4) True
5) Joanne has a headache the second day and felt like she was getting a cold.
6) True
7) True
3B
1. I think I really don´t like the idea of this expirience
2. I think I don’t know anyone that has been do something like that.
How sugar affects the brain - Nicole Avena
ResponderBorrar-Sugars are added to processed foods such as tomate sauce, dried fruit, and granola bars
-Sugar activates the brain's reward system
-Dopamine
-Eating sugary foods once in a while
-You can get adict to sugar, like to drugs
-Sugar overcomsuption can affect you in some areas such as drugs, like in social interaction and sex.
-Eathing always the same regular meal will decrease by the time your normal dopamine levels and if you are a cronic sugar eater your brain will release always the same amoung of dopamine so you will feel you always need more
Words:
Sugar_ noun
Dopamine: noun
Brain: noun
Meal:noun
Addictive: adjetive
Affect: verb
Eat: verb
Food; noun
to loss: verb
Activates: verb
p70.3A
1-False. You only drink vegetable and fruit juices on the retreat.
2. True
3.False. Louise was her roommate
4. True
5. False. Joanne has a headache the second day and felt like she was getting a cold
6. True
7. True
3B
1- Sure why not? It could be interesting and weird
2. No I have not met someone who has had that experience