Grains are also very low in nutrient density — how many nutrients you get from a food,
given the number of calories it contains.
-- how many nutrients you get from a food,
given the number of calories it contains.
You eat food to get
a given number of calories, not a given number of grams.
They minimize the effort required to attain
a given number of calories or, alternatively, maximize the amount of calories obtained from a given amount of effort.
After that, grab your nutrition handbook, put them together and divide that number by seven, which will
give you the number of calories you ate per day to get the result you got after the one week.
Not exact matches
Let's say that at lunchtime you're
given two options with the exact same
number of calories.
In the experimental group, employees were
given either the
number of calories, a traffic light indicating the approximate
number of calories (a green light, for instance, meant the fewest
calories), or both.
Those on diets, for example, often prefer not to look at the
number of calories in a tasty dessert, people at high risk for a disease avoid screening tests that could
give them a definite answer, and most consumers
of news choose sources that align with rather than challenge their political ideology.
If you take the
calorie number (69) and divide it by 7 (7
calories in 1 gram
of alcohol) it will
give you roughly 9.8 grams
of alcohol.
Yes, a lot
of assumptions were made here (and I'm sure you could argue plus or minus 10 - 25 % for ANY
of these
numbers), but this hopefully puts it a bit in perspective - ~ 200
calories of glycogen is about 50 grams
of carbohydrates, and
given the body can synthesize around 15 - 20 grams
of glycogen per hour, and is doing so during the workout from any food remaining in the gut, unless you haven't eaten in 12 hours you really only need ~ 30 additional grams
of carbohydrates post workout,
of which the body will use about 15 - 20 per hour to top off your stores.
Therefore, the total
number of calories that you burn in a
given day (i.e. your daily caloric expenditure) can be determined by adding your BMR, the
calories that you have burned to support physical activity, and the
calories that you have burned to support digestion
of food (this is generally 10 % or so
of the total
number of calories that you have consumed, read more about this in our Thermic Effect
of Food article), as follows:
Focusing on
calories often results in people
giving away their personal power to
numbers and missing the bigger picture
of weight loss and health.
The author's program
gives you many tools to help you easily create a personalized plan, including exact
numbers of calories and macronutrient amounts and ratios, lists
of foods and replacements, pre - and post-workout food modifications, and a personalized exercise routine.
This tool will
give you a good estimate
of how many
calories you should consume daily but I've found that, sometimes, the
numbers can be way too high for people outside
of the average population which most
of these calculations are based on.
Next question is how many
calories should you eat, my
calorie calculator asks you 5 questions to accurately determine your metabolism and
give you the precise
number of calories you need in each
of your 6 meals.
Most people who want to put on weight actually overestimate the
number of calories they take in on a
given day or underestimate the
number of calories they expend on an average day.
This calculator
gives you an idea
of the
number of calories your body burns daily at it's base level.
Select food, enter g for grams and 454 for
number and hit enter the
number of calories will
give you the
calorie density
of that particular food (i.e.
calories / pound).
Switching to a 6X program in which each meal averages 400
calories would
give you the same
number of calories daily as you have been ingesting while ramping up your metabolism!
Your body will burn a certain
number of calories in any
given day, no matter what you eat.
If you are eating / drinking exactly 1 serving, then the
calorie information
given is the
number of calories you have consumed.
is it very accurate to
give the
numbers of fat,
calories and fiber in the raw form
of a few
of these grains?
Take your body weight and multiply it by 16 or 18 and this is going to
give you an estimate
of the
number of calories you need to consume.
Energy density is a
number of calories in a
given weight
of food.
This is why almost all
of the standard calculators which determine
number of calories to eat to reach or maintain a
given weight
give erroneous results.
By varying the inputs
of goal weight,
number of days (or date) to reach that weight, percentage
calories changed and percentage
of exercise activity changed, it really helps you zero in on a realistic expectation
of what reaching your goal weight will take, as well as
gives you a chart
of your daily weight along with an error balloon either side.
That being said, you should be cautious on the
number of calories as
giving it too much can lead to hyperglycemia and diabetes.
Many pet owners
give these little extras as rewards — or to show their love for their dogs or cats — without thinking about the
number of calories that are in... Read more
Unlike humans, this shouldn't be a dog's
number one source
of calories, but it does
give them a ready source
of energy and a little starch is basically required when it comes to making and baking kibble.
Given their small size, Yorkshire terriers can only eat a limited
number of calories.
They are often
given in addition to the pet's regular diet that already contains an adequate
number of calories for energy.
You may also find yourself asking the
number of calories you need to
give it on a daily basis as well as the best type
of diet for this breed
of pooch.
Each time you start you are
given a list
of randomly generated challenges that range from traveling to certain districts
of Tokyo, mating a certain
number of times or eating a certain amount
of calories, among other things.
As if that didn't
give Hubway full license to brag, here are a few more
numbers it can tout: 5 million rides translates to 9,206,649 miles; 395,054,024
calories burned; and 1,721,460 gallons
of gasoline saved!
Just to make it even more enticing, the site
gives the distance and walking time for slow, medium or fast walkers and the
number of calories burned for each one.