Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: The Truth About Food

BBC Four HD

2:30 AM to 3:30 AM

Tuesday 31 December

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Dr Chris van Tulleken reveals how food not only provides humans with energy, but also the construction needed to constantly rebuild the body. He explores a cell in the human body, the mitochondria, which extracts energy from food and turns it into fuel for the organs. Chris also explains what can go wrong in the body when people's diets don't supply what is needed