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Calories in foodWhat are we going to talk about?
Had your breakfast today? How much of calories did you intake? Do you actually ever calculate that? What is a calorie exactly? How do you calculate the intake daily? This is all secondary. The beginning of any discussion is to know about a calorie. A calorie is the amount of energy the protein, carbohydrate, nutrients and fat can fuel your body!! It is a calorie that gives you the energy to work daily at a good pace. But
the excess of calories can also result in problems. Therefore one needs to know the calories in food.
How many calories should you take per day?
The calories that you consume daily depend on the fitness goals that you wish achieve. It is not only this but also the weight of your body. There are other factors also. Here is a list for you to consider:
* Your weight
* Metabolism
* Fitness goals
With the right weight of the body and plenty of energy, your calories in food intake are the right on. If you feel tired fast then the intake has to be increased. A little adjustment has to be made to make it suit your body metabolism.
How should you measure what you eat?
It is advisable that one should keep a track record of what one eats and drinks one week. And then add up the calories you digested per day. If your goal is to loose weight, your net calories inn food must be less than the number of calories required to maintain your current weight and your fitness goal and also the metabolism of your body.
Do all foods have calories?
Yes! This is true. It has been stated by experts that every food has calories except water. The four main food types and there respective calories are given here:
* Each gram of carbohydrate contains 3.75 calories
* Each gram of fat contains 9 calories
* Each gram of protein contains 4 calories
* Each gram of alcohol contains 7 calories
And to determine the calories in a particular food, you need to know roughly how many grams of each the food contains.
Examples of calories in food:
For example, if a food contain 10 grams of protein and 4 grams of fat and 3 grams of water, then it contains 10 x 4 (40) protein-calories, 4 x 9 (36) fat-calories and zero water-calories making a total of 76 calorie in your food item.
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