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Even an ordinary day makes amazing demands on the body. Each day is really one long balancing act, not only keeping all the vital processes under tight control, things like circulation, breathing a...nd the nervous system, but especially that most critical balance between energy intake and energy use. Using blood sugar levels, this programme shows how the body uses glucose from food to provide energy, and how, if there is excess food over energy requirements and therefore too much glucose in the blood, the body converts it to glycogen and stores it in the liver, to be called upon when energy demands are higher.
Even an ordinary day makes amazing demands on the body. Each day is really one long balancing act, not only keeping all the vital processes under tight control, things like circulation, breathing a...nd the nervous system, but especially that most critical balance between energy intake and energy use. Using blood sugar levels, this programme shows how the body uses glucose from food to provide energy, and how, if there is excess food over energy requirements and therefore too much glucose in the blood, the body converts it to glycogen and stores it in the liver, to be called upon when energy demands are higher.
| Module code and title: | S102, Science: a foundation course |
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| Item code: | S102; 23 |
| First transmission date: | 1988 |
| Published: | 1988 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Mike Gunton |
| Contributors: | Robert Cordell; David Robinson |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Blood sugar levels; Breathing; Circulation; Glycogen; Homeostasis; Human body; Liver |
| Subject terms: | Glucose--Metabolism; Nervous system; Homeostasis |
| Master spool number: | HOU5948 |
| Production number: | FOUS515T |
| Videofinder number: | 1992 |
| Available to public: | no |
