Sentences with phrase «ounces per week»

Kittens should gain about 1/2 ounce every day, or 4 ounces per week.

During this time, the puppy should gain a significant amount of weight - generally five ounces per week for a small breed dog and 2.5 pounds for a large breed.

Because of the slightly higher mercury in albacore tuna and tuna steak, you'll want to keep your intake to less than 6 ounces per week.

Poultry, fish and milk are also rich in L - carnitine.2 I typically recommend that pregnant women consume at least 3 - 6 ounces per week of free - range, grass - fed red meat, in order to easily achieve the essential nutritional requirements for pregnancy (including adequate protein and other important nutrients such as iron, taurine, vitamin B12, and folate).

If you're concerned about mercury levels in your tuna sandwiches, select light tuna over white tuna, and limit any white tuna consumption to less than 6 ounces per week, recommends the FDA.

According to the USDA's MyPlate guidelines, women who are pregnant or breastfeeding should consume a variety of seafood types of 8 - 12 ounces per week, to get the Omega - 3 fatty acids into their systems.

However, limit white albacore tuna to 6 ounces per week, due to their high methyl mercury content, and for the same reason, don't eat king mackerel, swordfish, tilefish, and shark.

The new Dietary Guidelines recommend eating 8 ounces per week to get healthy amounts of polyunsaturated omega - 3 fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), all of which feed your brain and fight inflammation and chronic disease.

Plus, only a few ounces per week of each food is enough to hit your recommended allowance of acne - healing nutrients like vitamin K2, vitamin A, zinc, and omega - 3 fatty acids.

In addition to children, all women of childbearing age are, therefore, advised by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to eat only up to twelve ounces per week of a variety of fish and shellfish known to be lower in mercury.

Most babies gain between 5 and 7 ounces per week in the first six months of life, or between 1.25 and 2 pounds per month, according to Hoecker.

Tuna, tile, mackerel and swordfish have a lot of mercury, which is not good for the fetal brain, so limit to 12 ounces per week.

A rough guideline: Your baby should gain about 6 to 8 ounces a week for the first four months, then about 4 to 6 ounces per week from 4 to 7 months.

During the first month of life, a breast - fed baby should gain between 4 and 7 ounces per week, once he regains his birth weight, pediatrician and author Dr. William Sears explains.

But, because they were gaining at least half an ounce to an ounce per day (about 4 - 8 ounces per week), I didn't worry, and neither did their pediatrician.

Four to 7 ounces per week is a wide accepted range for gain in the first month.

To keep mercury levels down, the AAP tells parents to limit the amount their child eats to less than 12 ounces per week.

Also, over the last ten weeks, he has gained weight very randomly ranging from 2 to 7 ounces per week and he is now at the.4 percentile.

After the third or fourth month this slows down to four to five ounces per week from four to six months.

If you eat solid white or albacore tuna, limit your intake to 6 ounces per week.

Once baby is back to birth weight, normal weight gain is about 5 - 6 ounces per week, although 4 - 5 ounces is acceptable in some cases.

Most breastfed babies will typically gain between 4 - 8 ounces per week in the beginning.

But you should still limit your intake of these fish to no more than 12 ounces per week, says Laura Riley, MD, director of labor and delivery at Massachusetts General Hospital and author of You & Your Baby: Pregnancy.

If your baby is back up to birthweight by 2 weeks of age, or at the very least gaining half an ounce to an ounce per day (4 - 8 ounces per week in the early weeks), this is all good news.

That's going to be an average or about five ounces per week.

It's perfectly normal for a baby to take as little as five minutes or as much as an hour to complete a feeding, assuming that the baby is growing well (gaining 4 to 8 ounces per week in the first three months and growing in length and head circumference).

At this point, she should be gaining 5 to 8 ounces per week.

Breastfed babies usually gain weight at a rate of 6 ounces per week.

You are producing an adequate supply of milk if your exclusively breastfed baby nurses eight to 12 times in a 24 hour period, makes six or more wet diapers in a 24 hour period, stools with many feeds, gains five to eight ounces per week for the first three months, and you are able to collect two to four ounces of milk when using a properly fitting pump to replace a nursing session.

He had three weeks where he only gained one ounce per week.

Instead, I lost a paltry 25 — an inglorious rate of a half - ounce per week.

The dose is about 5 grams a day or about one ounce per week, so a pound would last about two months.

The pup only weighed 7 oz at 5 wks old, he was gaining less than an ounce per week, and really needed to gain some weight.

Not exact matches

By 2009, the company was processing up to 4,000 fine ounces of gold per week.

In other precious metals, spot silver inched down 0.27 percent to $ 18.17 per ounce but held near four - week highs.

For the week, spot gold closed at $ 1,123.45, down $ 10.10 per ounce, or 0.89 percent.

Silver started the week and instantly set its path for a week long low of $ 20.84 per ounce, which represented its lowest price since 2010.

By the time that the FTSE closed in London today, Silver was trading at $ 22.51 per ounce, a significant rise over the course of the week.

Gold closed the week at $ 1,179.44 won $ 24.83 per ounce -LRB--2.06 %).

In COMEX gold futures which also experienced a record one - week amount of nearly 55,000 contracts being sold by so - called commercial traders, or the equivalent of 5.5 million ounces, that works out to 20 full days of world gold mine production (275,000 oz per day).

I'm talking about a game - changing event that could, with little warning, propel the price of gold upward by hundreds — even thousands — of dollars per ounce in the space of a few weeks... conceivably overnight!

The week of October 17, 2016 the average difference was well above $ 0.80 per ounce.

Gold traded down for 10 straight sessions to end the week at $ 1,099 per ounce, its lowest point in more than five years.

Physical gold buying has flooded Europe in the wake of Trump's victory with the yellow metal reaching a six - week high at $ 1,334.40 per ounce.

I have heard him say an ounce or two per week within a whole food plant based diet.

Enjoy it in moderation, perhaps an ounce a few times per week.

As 1 pound of body weight equals 3,500 calories, drinking coconut water once a week in place of a lemon - lime soda, which has 151 calories per 12 - ounce can, can help you lose 1.6 pounds of body weight over the course of a year.

It has been 6 weeks since I began my Paleo journey and to make the transition easier for me I allow grass - fed butter, grass - fed cream for my coffee only, and an ounce of 60 % chocolate per day.

«Think about how many sammies you'll be making that week and for how many — two to four ounces is a nice ballpark amount of cold cuts per sandwich,» Perry says.

You should keep your fish intake to about 2 servings per week, of up to 12 ounces.