Sentences with phrase «calories than the average person»

Many service members do a lot of physically demanding work on the field and will require more calories than the average person.

Because of these traits, they tend to have to consume more calories than the average person if they want to gain weight.

Not exact matches

Residents of the United States have, on average, more food - energy available to them than anybody else on the planet: 3,729 calories per person, per day — or so the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization calculates.

«It supplies more calories in people's diets than wheat, maize, cassava, or potatoes, and is also the leading source of protein for the poorest 20 percent of the population... and provides an average of 27 percent of daily caloric intake [in those areas].»

Martin Weisman of the Department of Health says the chief culprit for people's increasing weight must be decreasing physical activity, because on average people today eat fewer calories than their grandparents did («For a few burgers more...», New Scientist, 22 April).

In both countries, people consume far more added sugar than is considered healthy; in the United States, it makes up on average 16 % of calories.

In one study, the Bushmen's average daily food intake (during a month when food was plentiful) was 2,140 calories and 93 grams of protein, considerably greater than the recommended daily allowance for people of their size.

His truly devilish discovery, which he dubs the «dieter's paradox,» is that the strength of the belief about adding good foods to fight bad ones correlates with concern over putting on pounds: the people who worry most about their weight thought that, on average, the burger - plus - veggie combo had 96 fewer calories than the burger alone.

People who drank more than 1 serving each day of sugar - sweetened drinks consumed more calories compared to individuals who didn't, with an average energy consumption of more than 397 calories each day.

«People on the low - carb diet burned an average of 325 more calories a day — about the same number you'd burn during a moderately vigorous workout — than those on the low - fat diet, and those on the low - glycemic diet burned 150 more calories than those on the low - fat diet,» he says.

These flavored coffees have more calories than what an average person burns in a workout session.

Researchers found that overweight people burned 350 more calories a day, on average, when they ate a low - carbohydrate diet, than when they ate a low - fat diet.

And we sure love our Thanksgiving meals — so much so that the average person consumes more than 3,000 calories, if not more, in a single sitting.

A high protein diet, where studies show the most benefit, is considered one where anywhere from 20 - 35 % of calories are coming from protein, and yet most people who come to see us at Parsley are averaging less than 15 % of dietary intake from protein.

According to one study, people followed a low - calorie diet and ate 3 oz of almonds daily lost on average 62 % more weight than those on a high - carb diet (9).

The calories an average person should consume in one meal should not be greater than roughly 660 calories.

A common misunderstanding amongst many people is that swimming can not burn as many calories as land exercises because the water is cooler than the average body temperature.

From this perspective, grains probably never accounted for more than 1 - 3 % of our historical calorie intake... and as you know from one of my recent articles, currently our modern processed diet that the average person eats consists of 67 % of total calories from grains such as corn, soy, and wheat and their derivatives... now THAT»S a shocking revelation in why our entire food supply is backwards, and how that affects your waistline!

Surprisingly, many overweight people, and thyroid patients, in particular, do not take in any more calories than people of average weight and can sustain or even gain weight at far lower daily calorie levels.

And of course if you were eating 100 calories worth of lettuce you would have to eat about a pound of it, larger than most people's average portion.

The researchers in this study found that the people who followed the low - carb (ketogenic) diet dropped more fat and lost more weight than those adhering to the low - fat diet, despite consuming slightly more calories on average.

But on average, excess calories are a much bigger problem in the U.S. than inadequate calories, and most people deciding to restrict or remove grains from their meal plan would be able to compensate in calories with foods from other food groups.

But researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Cornell University also recently found that removing barriers between the kitchen and living room can encourage people to eat an average of 170 more calories per day than those with a closed floor plan.