Sentences with phrase «percentage of your total calorie intake»

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

With such a «liberal» intake, one exceeds first of all the RDA for calories — unless he does a lot of physical activity — and then the reasonable percentage of fat — unless he eats a lot more of grains and pulses, in which case the total calories consumed must be very high — back to the same problem thus.

AMDRs are percentages of your total daily calorie intake that should come from carbohydrates, protein and fat.

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 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.

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.

And considering the World Health Organization suggests we cut sugar intake to less than five percent of total daily calories (11 percentage points less than Americans consume on average), maybe it's best we avoid what Sonic calls «the added awesomeness of NERDS Candy.»

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