LUKE COMER

The Big Bang created all the atoms of our universe, including carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen. These organic atoms then formed into three classes of macronutrients: sugars, fatty acids and amino acids. These macronutrients, along with sixteen other minerals, formed into prokaryotes and then into the larger and more powerful eukaryotes. Since eukaryotes predominate in all plants and animals, including humans, we focus on their foodways in detail, especially their metabolism and synthesis of macronutrients-so that our readers understand the relationship between their diet and the cells inside their body... Next we focus on the foodways of plants since they are the origins of nearly all nutrients consumed by animals. In photosynthesis plants capture from the air and soil their "food"-that is, three of the organic atoms that, with the help of electrons from the sun, are then formed into glucose. From glucose plants then eventually make other sugars, fructose most of all, as well as..