Sunday, June 17, 2012

Calories for your body weight

Do you still remember the discussion in the previous tips? We know the calorie is important to understand for healthy weight loss program. This article is continued discussion about the calories.

The number of calories in food depend on the content of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and alcohol. the greater the amount of carbohydrate, fat, protein and alcohol in your food, the higher the calories produced. So to succeed in your healthy weight loss program, it is good if you eat foods with a relatively large amount of nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fiber, active biological materials.

High calorie, can easily be found in fast food. So some kind of burger and fries, fall into this category. But included also in this group is, salty snacks like potato chips and sticks, as well as sweets, cakes and other sweets, alcohol, sweetened fruit juices, soft drinks. Beside them, as well as bread and pasta made from white flour, white rice.


In running your healthy weight loss program, you can not equate calories your body needs with others. For daily calorie needs for each person is different. It depends on age, sex, height, weight, physical activity, body composition and metabolic rate. Estimated number of calories needed to calculate the basic energy needs for human metabolism can be calculated using the Harris and Benedict formula.

How do we get energy (calories) of nutrients? Energy conversion process begins with nutrient uptake, transformation of the substance in a specific building blocks and energy trading, transportation and storage, secretion and the end product of unnecessary and dangerous of these transformations. The process of transformation of energy and matter is closely related to the order of succession in a particular sequence of chemical reactions catalyzed by enzymes, and thus remain under constant supervision.

What we consume in the first place the energy (calories) from food? First, the body to use it for basic operations. Even when a person consumes power rests on the work of internal organs (heart, liver, kidneys and other), breathing, maintaining proper body temperature.

Determination of calories in the diet was first used in England in 1880 for a pound of flesh.

Deed capable of athletes for a day to eat over 10,000 calories per day, with no weight gain consequences. Therefore, it is highly recommended for those of you who run a healthy weight loss program, to build muscle in your body. Because muscular body is safer against the high number of calories

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