Sentences with phrase «percentage of total calories»

And while this is great, it's only a small percentage of the total calories you burn during the day.

Note that in his most recent book The End of Heart Disease and elsewhere, Dr. Fuhrman warns against the possible long term adverse neurological consequences of very low fat diets (and specifically compares his recommendatons to Ornish and Esselstyn), and recommends a daily fat intake as percentage of total calories in the range of 15 - 30 %, depending on one's desired weight.

When you embark on a Whole30, you remove foods (grains, legumes, and dairy) that may be accounting for a large percentage of your total calorie intake.

I suspect the percentages (3 - 5 % fat etc) are NOT percentages of total calories because then the percentages would have to add up to 100 %, since calories come from the macronutrients, protein, carbohydrate and fat.

Fat Content *: Dairy products — other than skim varieties — are high in fat, as a percentage of total calories.

The only exception is protein, which I tend to base on lean body mass rather than as a percentage of total calories.

As a percentage of total calories, protein will increase when in a caloric deficit even though the absolute amount will remain the same.

Recommendations — To reach these recommended protein intake totals, whether total grams or a percentage of total calories, eat small, frequent meals containing lean proteins, supplement with protein shakes.

Protein as a Percentage of Total Calories.

In the study referenced below, the difference in magnitude of the thermic effect of food, expressed as a percentage of the total calories ingested, was roughly 2 % higher when the calories were consumed in one single meal.

We examined the effects of three HFDs differing in the percentage of total calories from saturated fat (SF)(6 %, 12 %, and 24 % of total caloric intake), but identical in total fat (40 %), and a commercially available Western Diet (26 % and 41 % saturated and total fat, respectively) on colon cancer development using the AOM / DSS murine model.

The percentage of total calories with this approach is 30 % protein, 65 % fat and 5 % carbohydrates.

Although the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons suggests athletes obtain 12 to 15 percent of their calories from protein, a 2009 review in «Nutrition and Metabolism» reports that individualized protein needs are based on an athlete's body weight, not the percentage of his total calorie intake.

However, the percentage of total calories method is more accurate because it accounts for different goals.

As with protein, an athlete's carbohydrate needs are often determined using his body weight, not a percentage of his total calorie intake.

In some cases, the amount of oil given was a percentage of total calories, which varied from person to person.

Some high protein diets will recommend a percentage of total calorie intake (such as 30 % or more).

I will say that numbers and ranges (percentage of total calories and how much should be geared towards fats, let alone essential fats) can be tricky to calculate.

In 2005 the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) also issued a set of Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Ranges (AMDRs) for protein as a percentage of total calories.