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This article answers your questions about how many calories 16-year-olds need. A teenager’s calorie requirement depends on many factors, including gender. A 16-year-old boy may need up to 3,200 calories daily. A girl needs up to 2,400 calories, according to the 2020-25 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). However, you can make fine-tuning adjustments to these … Read more
If you’ve been wondering how many calories you burn while sleeping and how to calculate the energy cost of nightly rest, we have all the answers to your questions. While you’ve probably already guessed that you burn fewer calories while sleeping, you may also want to know how to calculate or estimate your overnight energy … Read more
This article answers questions you may have about how to burn calories while sitting and the health benefits of increased activity during prolonged sitting. We list practical strategies you may adopt to burn calories while sitting and thus improve your health status. Research studies suggest that even modest physical activity levels while sitting may be … Read more
This article answers questions about maintenance calories and how to calculate them. We introduce readers to an advanced maintenance calorie calculator (Body Weight Planner) designed by Dr. Kevin Hall and his team at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. The app helps you calculate your maintenance calories, the calorie deficit you need to lose … Read more
Foods that have very little or no nutrients besides added sugar and solid fat-derived calories are said to contain empty calories. Nutritionists consider empty calories unhealthy and advise health-conscious people to avoid them. But you need to know what empty calories are to avoid eating them. You also need to know how to identify foods containing empty calories. Poti … Read more
This article answers all your questions about how many calories are in an apple (Malus domestica/Malus pumila). We compare the calorie contents of small, medium, and large apples. We also compare the calorie contents and nutrition facts for various apple cultivars, including Granny Smith, Red Delicious, Fuji, Gala, and Honeycrisp. You’ve likely heard the saying … Read more
This article answers questions about the calorie deficit you need to lose weight. We address questions about the accuracy of the claim that cutting 3500 calories will make you lose a pound of fat. We also show you how to use an advanced web-based calorie deficit calculator developed by Dr. Kevin Hall and his research team at … Read more
This article answers all your questions about how many calories are in an egg. We cover everything you need to know about the average calorie contents of different egg weight classes, including peewee, small, medium, large, extra-large, and jumbo. We also give you a detailed breakdown of the nutrition facts for a large egg, including … Read more
If you love bananas and are counting calories or worried about your sugar levels, then you may have been wondering how many calories are in a banana. If you are trying to lose weight you may also be drawing up a list of foods low in calories or foods low in carbs to include in … Read more
Nutritionists use the word “calories” to mean the amount of energy in food and drink. Scientists formally define a calorie as the heat needed to increase the temperature of a unit amount of water by a degree Celsius. There are two related definitions of the calorie, namely, the small and the large Calorie. The small calorie (cal) … Read more