Our brain works very hard 24 hours a day. So, what food should we eat for maximum brain health? Phil and Georgie discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.

❓❓❓ Which mammal has the biggest brain?

a) an African elephant
b) a dolphin or,
c) a sperm whale

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Vocabulary:
✔sugar rush suddenly feeling excited or full of energy after eating food containing a lot of sugar
✔balanced diet a diet combining the proper types and amounts of food needed to stay healthy
✔go low have very little of a particular thing
✔sharp intelligent and quick to notice and react to things
✔batch cook cook a lot of food at one time, then save some to eat at later meals
✔(20 second/minutes) flat used to mean a certain amount of time exactly, and to emphasise that something is done very quickly

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