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Calculating Calories
The energy value of any food is measured in calories, and the basal metabolic rate is the minimum amount of calorie count that is required when the body is at rest (Resting Energy Expenditure). Combining it with the energy one consumes while moving around or digesting food gives us the total energy expenditure.
Our body energy needs are dependent on our age, height, weight, genetics and gender, apart from our daily activity.
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Metabolism: A Moving Target
A person with slow metabolism will not burn the same quantity of energy as one with a fast metabolism.
What still remains a moving target is how the speed of metabolism varies from one person to another, and what will turn it up or down.
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Calorie Requirements: Our Body Type
- Certain medical conditions and general health also contribute as factors in our metabolic rate.
- The thyroid gland produces a chemical called ‘thyroxine’ which regulates a person’s basal metabolic rate.
- Depression, diabetes, fasting, having fever, low blood oxygen too play...
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Body Energy Expenditure: Facts
- For an average adult female, the estimated daily intake is 1600 to 2400 calories.
- For the average adult male, it is 2000 to 3000 calories per day.
- Children have a higher speed of metabolism, especially in stages of infancy.
- Two people of the same body type and wei...
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Understanding Metabolism
Metabolism is the chemical reactions that are needed in our bodies to maintain life as an organism.
It helps convert food into energy, breaking down food into building blocks for various elements, and to eliminate nitrogenous wastes from the body.
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Exercise and calories burn
Exercise accounts for a small portion of daily calorie burn.
Even when you work out, those extra calories burned only account for a tiny part of your total energy expenditure, only around 10 to 30 percent, depending on the person. It's not nearly equal to food intake.
How The Body Uses Calories
- Basal metabolism is the energy our body needs to keep our cells working and accounts for 65-80% of most adults' caloric consumption.
- The thermic effect of food is the energy our body uses to process food and accounts for 10% of most adults' caloric consumption.
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Physical activity and energy burn
Physical activity only makes up a small portion of your total energy burn. Percentages of calories you burn off in a day:
- 60%- 80% account for energy used for basic functioning when the body is at rest.
- 10% of energy is used to break down food.
- 10% - 30% of...
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