Sentences with phrase «much energy from food»

Cats who lay around all day don't need as much energy from food as active cats who run and play.

What if their body (or more specifically, their mitochondira) is inefficient, if (due to some nutritional deficiencies, for example,) is unable to extract as much energy from the foods they consume?

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«We see a Chinese economy gradually shifting from construction to consumption, and so, we will transition,» said Mackenzie adding that «We imagine we will continue to creep our exports of steelmaking materials like metallurgical coal and iron ore, but we're much more likely to make major investments in what we feel are the next phase of China's growth in energy and in food.»

Much of this energy still comes from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contribute to extreme weather patterns that imperil everyone on earth — especially our food producers.

A lot of fast food options are marketed as being healthy, but unless you're the one doing the cooking it's difficult to control how much sugar or salt (or fat or energy or... you get the picture...) is in that bowl of superfood lentil stew with mixed grains from the healthy fast food chain next door to the office.

In research published this week, the National Food Institute at the Technical University of Denmark observed that many children and teens get too much caffeine from energy drinks.

Babies at the breast have to use as much as 60 times more energy to get food than do those drinking from a bottle... As [the babies jaw] muscles are strenuously exercised in suckling, their constant pulling encourages the growth of well - formed jaws and straight, healthy teeth.»

From that perspective, it becomes clear that humans are prone to obesity because our bodies evolved in an environment of scarcity, where consuming as much high - energy food as possible was a useful survival strategy.

Animals require oxygen to extract energy from food, but too much of the chemical creates peril, as certain oxygen - containing compounds wreak molecular havoc.

However, eating the right foods can give you energy and prevent you from eating too much during the rest of the day.

Once you start to understand how much energy you take from food, you'll be able to limit yourself by not eating the foods that compromise your macro balance.

Touted as one of the world's healthiest foods, amaranth is an incredible source of nutrients - particularly for children, who can get as much as 70 % of their necessary dietary energy from one serving.

The best way to lose weight is by striking a balance between how active you are and how much energy you take in from food.

Our bodies work on the calories (energy) from food, not on how much food weighs.

This has many practical ramifications, however, because your metabolic rate also influences how you feel, how many calories you burn, how many calories you can eat without gaining weight, your libido, your fertility, your cold tolerance, how much subjective energy you have, how you recover from injuries and stress, how specific foods affect you, and how you perform in the gym.

How much weight a person gains or loses also has a lot to do with the individual's metabolism the process by which the body's cells convert the calories from food into energy for bodily functions such as breathing.

With respect to our physiological requirements in a fasted state, the digestive system is able to take a much needed rest from metabolising nutrients from food, focusing all of its energies on cleansing organs, doing some dusting, and clearing out the rubbish!

(Surprise — your metabolism impacts how much energy you derive from foods.)

When food was scarce our body designed ways to stop you from using too much energy.

Animal tissues exclusively synthesize MK - 4, but many anaerobic bacteria synthesize other menaquinones, which they use for energy production much in the way that plants use vitamin K1.80 We can therefore obtain vitamin K2 by absorbing that which is produced by our intestinal flora or by eating fermented foods, in addition to eating animal foods which contain vitamin K2 synthesized from vitamin K1 found in grass.

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For our purposes, we want to reduce this burden as much as possible so that we can give the body and digestive tract a break from having to break down solid food — so that the saved energy can be transferred to cleansing processes.

Understanding how to optimize our mitochondria (energy factories) and how to reduce oxidative stress (which results from toxic insults, infections, allergens, stress, and just eating too much poor quality food) is an often overlooked yet vital component to becoming a thriving human.

This activity looks at the food we eat and where it comes from, providing a basis for looking at how much energy goes into getting our food from A...

Often used to describe how much energy your body gets from eating or drinking a certain food or drink.

He burns way too much energy and I could see he wasnt getting the nutrition from the food like he should.

Foods like oatmeal, which have both fiber and carbohydrates, are a much better option than other high - energy foods which get their calories from simple sugars.

This is important to realize, because if a puppy is fed an adult dog food that has a lower amount of calcium, but it has to eat two or three times as much of the food to meet its energy requirement, it will actually consume more calcium from the adult food, even though it has a lower calcium content on a percentage basis.

Many of our older pets can benefit from having the same raw diet cooked in a crock pot, as they don't have as much extra energy to spend «cooking» the food in their stomachs.

Fresh dog food is often much more digestible than processed kibble, or even processed wet food, so your dog can get more energy and nutrients from «less.»

i wasnt too sure what food i could buy that my dogs would love so much so my vet recommened i try freshpet dog food for my kiddos and i bought some and they simply loved it, they have been on it for 3 months now and their coats went from coarse to silky soft and they have so much energy now..

«We have to learn as much as we can from photosynthesis, in other words what goes on in leafy plants, because that's where most of our energy has otherwise come from in terms of fossil fuels or current kinds of carbon materials that we use either as food or fuel,» MacFarlane said.

There's some merit to Rod's argument — and some numbers are available on how much of the food people are eating ccomes from energy - intensive, fossil - fuel - dependent farming.

Right now, I can buy food from all around the world at my supermarket, all of which consumes unnecessary energy for travel, and much of which is processed.

While less meat gets wasted than does fruit and vegetables, the amount of energy required to produce meat is «significantly» more than that for plant - based food production, which means that the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from meat production is also much higher, leading researchers to indicate that meat waste has a «greater negative environmental impact.»

It seems that so many of our problems, from energy independence to climate change to world hunger to water, could be significantly mitigated if we could just get control of our food system and stop wasting so much.

It appears to me, caveat as above, that AGW has created a lifeless system in thinking in this «energy balance» much as it has done with CO2 with its destruction of the dynamical system which is all life by thinking of plants merely as «carbon sinks», somewhere merely to store CO2; from which the used to be known fact that CO2 was food for all living carbon life forms is practically unknown and now at the absurd reasoning from not knowing it, that it can defy gravity and stay removed and out of reach from the carbon life forms which evolved from its property of being available at ground level.