Sentences with phrase «percent of their daily calories»

A study has shown that children ages two to 18 years old get 40 percent of their daily calories from junk foods like sugary sodas and fruit drinks, cookies, donut, candy, fried foods and more — that's unconscionable.

In fact, the average American consumes 25 percent of their daily calories from snacks.

Because American kids consume 35 - 50 percent of their daily calories during school, packing a healthy school lunch for your kids is especially important.

The USDA recommends that toddlers get 30 - 35 percent of their daily calories from fat.

Young children get 10 to 15 percent of their daily calories from sugar - sweetened beverages (soda, fruit punches, and sports drinks).

More alarmingly, people who get at least 25 percent of their daily calories from added sugar — or 13 percent of the U.S. population — are almost three times as likely to die from cardiovascular disease than those who get just 10 percent of calories from the sweet stuff.

The other groups received a diet with 40 percent of daily calories from fat, an amount common in the American diet.

The control group received a low - fat diet (5 percent of daily calories from fat).

(absolute caloric count); «Did you know that a bottle of soda or fruit juice has about 10 percent of your daily calories?»

«Make 80 percent of the food you eat healthy and take 20 percent of your daily calories and make them fun.»

They also noted that their statement aligns with current advice from the World Health Organization, the FDA, and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, all of which recommend that added sugars make up less than 10 percent of daily calories.

A 2014 study revealed that people who consumed 17 percent to 21 percent of their daily calories from the sweet stuff had a 38 percent higher risk of dying from heart disease compared with those who kept their added sugar intake to 8 percent of their daily calories.

They had each participant lose about 10 to 15 percent of their body weight, then put them on three different maintenance diets — low - fat (with about 60 percent of daily calories coming from carbs); low - glycemic - index (with about 40 percent of daily intake from carbs that cause only moderate spikes in blood sugar, such as legumes and vegetables); and a very low - carb approach, with just 10 percent of daily calories from carbs.

On average, about 25 percent of the daily calories in the average American diet come from snacks and drinks.

«Aim to eat about 25 percent of your daily calorie intake at breakfast so you're not starving by noon,» Weber said.

The largest proportion, 70 percent, ate a low - energy breakfast (between 5 percent and 20 percent of daily calorie intake) and 3 percent either skipped breakfast or ate less than 5 percent of their daily calorie intake.

The researchers found that when the children in the study reduced their sugar intake (from an average of 30 percent of daily calories eaten to 10 percent of daily calories eaten), they had improved blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and insulin regulation.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends that 20 to 35 percent of your daily calories come from fat, but the World Health Organization suggests keeping it under 30 percent of your calories.

The World Health Organization advocates a diet in which 55 percent to 75 percent of daily calories come from carbohydrates; 15 percent to 30 percent from fats; and 10 percent to 15 percent from proteins.

They also set a wide range for acceptable protein intake — anywhere from 10 to 35 percent of your daily calories intake per day.

Two low - fat diets were examined in the reviewed studies — the Ornish and Rosemary Conley diets, which dictate that less than 20 percent of daily calories should come from fat, 10 - 15 percent from protein and about 60 percent from carbs.

Limit total fat consumption to no more than 35 percent of your daily calories, recommends the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

You should not get more than 10 percent of your daily calories from saturated fat, according to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010.

to the tune of 50 percent of my daily calories.

«Fat guidelines actually range from 10 to 35 percent of daily calories and 20 percent fat may not be appropriate or adequate for all,» she says.

The recommendation is that we cut back on sugar, ideally consuming no more than 10 percent of our daily calories as added sugar from sweeteners and in products.

The American Heart Association recommends limiting your intake of saturated fats to less than 7 percent of your daily calories.

Today total fat intake hovers near thirty percent of daily calories, while carbohydrate intake is close to half of total calories.

Although Harvard Medical School reports that most healthy adults should aim for 15 percent of their daily calories from protein, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's sample weight - loss menus contain about 20 percent of the calories from protein, or about 60 grams per day for a 1,200 - calorie diet and 80 grams of protein per day when using a 1,600 - calorie weight loss plan.

While exact demands vary from person - to - person, the general rule of thumb is that high - quality carbohydrates should account for roughly 50 - 60 percent of daily calorie intake.

You need protein, for example, but if you ingest more protein than the 20 to 25 percent of your daily calorie intake, your body will kick in something called gluconeogenesis.

High - protein diets generally require 30 to 35 percent of your daily calories to come from protein, or about 120 to 140 grams of protein per day for a 1,600 - calorie diet.

According to the Institute of Medicine, children ages 4 to 18 should obtain no more than 30 percent of their daily calorie intake from dietary protein, which is a maximum of 120 grams of protein per day for children consuming 1,600 calories a day.

A 1 - cup serving of orange juice made fresh or from frozen concentrate contains 112 calories, or approximately 6 percent of the daily calorie intake based on a 2,000 - calorie diet.

According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, athletes should obtain about 20 to 30 percent of their daily calories from dietary fat — which is equivalent to 67 to 100 grams of fat daily when eating 3,000 calories a day.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that between 10 and 35 percent of your daily calories come from protein.

Another 15 percent of your daily calories should come from healthy, unsaturated fats — such as nuts and avocados.

Between 50 and 70 percent of your daily calories should come from carbohydrates.

Jillian Michaels, for instance, wrote on her site that you can devote 20 percent of your daily calorie allowance to treats like brownies.

Based on these guidelines, you should consume between 45 and 65 percent of your daily calories from carbohydrates and 10 to 35 percent of your calories from protein.

Based on that figure, each fig is 3 percent of your daily calories.

In fact, most people benefit from up to 50 - 85 percent of their daily calories in the form of fats for optimal health (for listing of healthy fats, see end of article) while they are seeking to resolve their insulin resistance.

It's a hot topic: people seem to be trying to get more and more of it, though most experts agree that a fairly standard balanced diet provides enough protein to meet the recommended intake of 10 to 35 percent of your daily calories.

Most sources say we should get between 20 and 35 percent of our daily calories from fats, and it's rare that we don't get enough.

«If the public were to follow guidelines to restrict sugar to 5 or 10 percent of daily calories, this would mean that profits for junk food companies would fall by half.»

If you really want to supercharge your metabolism it's recommended that about 25 — 45 percent of your daily calories should come from protein.

Research has found people who get at least 25 percent of their daily calories from added sugars of any kind were more than three times more likely to have low levels of the «good» HDL cholesterol in their bloodstream, a risk factor for heart disease, than people who got less than 5 percent of their calories from sweeteners.

Thirty percent of the daily calorie requirement of people with fibromyalgia should come from lean protein such as lean meat, fish, cottage cheese and eggs.

People who consume more than a quarter of their daily calories from added sugars have nearly triple the risk of cardiovascular disease compared to those who consume less than 10 percent of their daily calories from added sugars, the researchers note.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that no more than 10 percent of your daily calories (and ideally less than 5 percent) come from added sugar or natural sugar.