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Watch the video and answer the questions below. Please remove the subtitles.

1. What is the largest nutritional component of the brain?

2. Give me two examples of the effects of food on your brain.

3. Which foods contain fatty acids?

4. Other fats might.................... brain health.

5. What do neurotransmitters do?

6. What is the best way to keep your mood stable?

7. Which micronutrients does the narrator mention?

8. What percentage of our energy resources does our brain use?

9. What is lumped into just one group in food labels?

10. What is the final recommendation we hear in the video?

Vocabulary

 What's the meaning of the expression 'What's your poison?'?

This is my take on Adrian Mitchell's poem (see below). Different words, same story.

Reds and blues

In a corner

Of the playground

Stands a  skinny girl

Munching on her hair,

Gazing blindly into the football court.

She's pretty, she's cute, she's clever,

But she does not know.

She's leaning on a dark red brick wall, 

One of her legs against the building

Like a disillusioned flamingo's.

There's a huge scab on her right knee, 

But soon it will fall off, leaving a pink spot.

Soft and delicate.

I wish my hair was like Linda's,

I wish I was taller.

I wish boys liked me or at least noticed me.

I wish I was invisible or maybe I wish the opposite.

There's an untouched sandwich in her hand

Wrapped in kitchen foil.

She doesn't want to open it.

I bet it's the same as every day:

A soggy hot dog heated hurriedly in the microwave.

Not even at home. Not even there. 

I'm a nobody everywhere.

Shouts in the distance and cruel laughs.

Josh is lying in the middle of the playground 

While the usual thugs kick him just for fun.

Where are the teachers? Where are the parents?

Aren't they supposed to protect us?

To know what's going on?

But I guess they have other things on their minds

And the suffering of a little boy and a little girl

Has no space in their busy brains. 

Shame on them! 

Written by: Maria Garcia