Sentences with phrase «system estimate your calories»

You get access to your profile in which you will input data to help the system estimate your calories burnt and distance walked, see a list of personal records that you have set.

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The current system of calorie counting on which our nutrition labels are based «provides only an estimate of the energy content of foods,» Malden C. Nesheim, a professor of nutrition at Cornell University, said at a 2013 meeting of the international nonprofit Institute for Food Technologists.

Using previously published systems for estimating the physical intensity of different jobs, they calculated the number of calories burned by the American workforce in different eras.

According to one speaker at this year's annual meeting of the Institute for Food Technologists, called «Re-examining the Energy Value of Food», the current system provides merely an estimate of the energy content of foods and therefore doesn't tell the whole picture when it comes to the calories your body extracts from food.

In a world that faces growing food insecurity, the best and most efficient response is to worry less about production and more about addressing the gaps in our current distribution system — primarily, why an estimated 40 percent of all calories produced for human consumption fails to reach mouths and bellies.

The existing systems simply provide the estimated nutritional value of generic food items and meals and, more often than not, require consumers to manually encode data to count calories and keep track of food intake.