Sentences with phrase «percentage of the calories»

If it were, it would be one of our Worst Breakfast Cereals because of its high percentage of calories from sugar.

You might notice that a large percentage of calories still come from fats.

Healthy fats should be a large percentage of the calories you eat, but it is important to cut way back on your overall caloric intake, especially at the beginning of your journey to reverse the disease.

Its utilizable protein content as percentage of calorie ingestion is higher than sago and cassava, but is much lower than other staples such as yam, maize, rice, potato and wheat.

It only provides a small percentage of her calories.

The authors note the risk of death from CVD increased with a higher percentage of calories from added sugar.

Once you have your daily caloric intake, you'll need to determine the percentage of calories that should go to each macronutrient.

* If you like allocating a higher percentage of your calories toward the earlier hours of the day versus the later hours, or vice versa, go for it.

By comparison, the American Heart Association, the National Cholesterol Education Program, and the American Cancer Society all recommend a diet in which a smaller percentage of calories come from protein.

In this study, the 2 groups consumed either 25 % or 14 % of calories from protein, while the total calories and percentage of calories provided by fat remained identical between the high protein and normal protein diets.

In this case the weight gainers and protein bars (especially those with higher percentage of calories) are your choice.

Most have also advised avoiding nuts, seeds, and avocados to keep the overall percentage of calories from fat in the range of 10 percent.

Fat as a percentage of calories reduced from 38.8 % to 29.8 %.

It was emphasized that the main goal was to reduce fat as a percentage of calories and not weight loss per se.

3) Roughly what percentage of your calories (average) comes from fats?

Some foods contain a higher percentage of their calories as protein (legumes, but also leafy green vegetables) and others have a lower percentage of calories from protein (most fruits).

While our bodies burn a greater percentage of calories from fat at lower intensities, we can actually burn a great deal of calories from fat at higher intensities simply because we burn more total calories both before and after a workout when we engage in higher intensity activities.

As a result of that, a higher percentage of your calorie surplus (even if it is a smaller surplus to begin with) will still end up as stored body fat since it won't have anywhere else to go.

Because if you only have 1 or 2 meals per day your body uses only a small percentage of the calories and stores the rest as fat, however, when you spread your calories out over smaller meals throughout the day you have a far better chance of burning calories instead of storing them as fat and you are also less likely to feel hungry.

The fuel sources for aerobic cellular metabolism are fats and carbohydrates, with a greater percentage of calories coming from fats at lower intensities.

Keep in mind this is as a percentage of calories and because fats are over twice as much caloric density and very satiating when fat is consumed in a carbohydrate restricted diet an athlete simply does not eat much and tends not to overeat so the idea many people imagine of a high fat diet does not fit the reality of how it is practiced daily.

The science is very clear, people who eat more whole plant foods are healthy in direct proportion to the percentage of their calories they get from these foods.

The exact percentage of your calories that comes from protein, carbohydrates and fats is also up for grabs to a certain extent and some people find that they do better if they increase or decrease one of the 3 elements having said that a diet consisting of 40 % protein 30 percent carbohydrates and 30 % fats is a good starting point which can be adapted to what you think best with a bit of trial and error.

However, a larger 20 % reduction in dietary fat with no change in the percentages of calories from protein produced less weight loss (3.7 ± 0.6 compared with 4.9 ± 0.5 kg; P = 0.13) in our previous study (11).

The conversion of carbohydrate to fat in the body (called de novo lipogenesis) is not a major pathway in humans, even when carbohydrates make up a large percentage of calories.

Likewise, the notion that food manufacturers pull a little trick on us and don't list fats and such as a percentage of calories (how the advice is given by nutritionists and researchers), but as a percentage of weight, whicih isn't necessarily the same measurement and can be misleading.

Anyway, his suggestion was that if you're going to fudge on fats and eat some amount larger than suggested (as a percentage of calories), dilute those calories by eating foods that are considerably less calorie - dense and more nutritive like vegetables to balance it out, in toto.

Plus, the conversion of carbohydrate to fat in the body (called de novo lipogenesis) is not a major pathway in humans, even when carbohydrates make up a large percentage of calories [17,18].

They're pushing their total percentage of calories if you still calculate that down to about 10 % 15 % with their carbohydrates.

A «vegan ketosis diet» would have to rely strongly on processed oils or large percentage of calories from nuts.

I doubt fruit comprises a large percentage of calories.

Fiber is actually fuel for your microbiome, and a percentage of those calories are spent to make your bacteria thrive.

Should she treat herself to a dish of ice cream for dessert, she adds another 260 calories, including over 100 calories as fat, but her percentage of calories as fat drops 9 points to 57 percent because of the high levels of carbohydrate calories from the sugar in the ice cream.

If meat or dairy products are consumed, the percentage of calories from fat will be well over 30 percent.

Once you've selected the proper ratio of calories to come from protein, simply multiply the percentage of calories from protein by the total calories for the day.

In order to «improve» on the diet, many are tempted to restrict not only carbohydrates but also fat, ending up with a diet that has a high percentage of calories from protein — the brisket dinner rather than the rib eye (see Table 4).

The next step is to select the optimal percentage of calories from protein.

Another way to calculate your daily protein needs is to multiply your total calorie intake for the day by the desired percentage of calories from protein.

I want to know what percentage of calories from fat was used as «high - fat» and «low fat» in the studies.

Besides calorie, protein, fat and carbohydrate data, we provide percentages of calories that comes from protein, carb and fat for each food.

Instead of dividing the people into three equal groups, the percentage of calorie intake in the form of protein was used to allocate subjects to one of three groups:

So you will take in more grams of protein, but you don't need a higher percentage of your calories to be from protein.

We need proteins but we also want to avoid too high a percentage of calories from proteins in our diets.

I like nuts and seeds as part of my whole plants vegan diet, and eat them daily, but I do keep a close eye on my total calorie intake, fat intake and composition and percentage of calories consumed.

Randy, It looks like a majority or at least a large percentage of your calories are coming from fat.

After all, you burn the highest percentage of calories from fat while you're asleep (not necessarily the most fat calories), and no one is recommending you keep your heart rate that low to burn fat, so why would they recommend you keep it down when you exercise?

Higher NPY levels are believed to increase appetite and may even change the percentage of calories you store as fat (45).

If you are going to look at this nutrient breakdown table explaining the amount and percentage of calories, carbs, proteins, fats, fiber, etc. (after you have looked at the list of ingredients), the key things to look for are:

A dietary quality index was developed that simply reflects the percentage of calories people derive from nutrient - rich, unprocessed plant foods on a scale of 0 to 100.

Among those who were healthy and ate a small percentage of their calories as animal products, they selected very nutrient - dense products such as whole insects and frogs, shellfish, and so on.