When examining nutrition and stress response, we must look at a couple of different factors:
total caloric balance and exercise nutrition.
Not exact matches
To figure out whether rice might make you fat, its calories must be
balanced within your
total daily
caloric intake.
Weight gain has a lot to do with simple
caloric balance /
total energy expenditure.
Caloric balance doesn't take into account whether calories come from proteins, carbohydrates or fats; it involves only
total calories in and
total calories out.
Previous research has shown that weight change depends on energy
balance, defined as the relationship between
caloric intake and
caloric expenditure due to the thermic effect of food, resting metabolic rate, and
total physical activity (PA).