Calorie intake and healthy eating is being promoted more and more and an area that is also receiving a great amount of publicity!
Daily calorie intake for adults are: 1940 calories for women and 2550 calories for men. (UK Department of Health)
These figures are only estimates, but of course this ranges greatly depending on factors such as lifestyle, diet, exercise and also personal factors like weight, age and height also need to be taken into consideration.
To lose weight the rule of thumb is for you to eat less calories then your body actually needs. For example – if you want to loose 1lb in a week you need to reduce your daily calorie consumption by 500.
It is also said that diets known as Calorie Restricted Diet have had positive effects such as extended lifespans and improved health – but these scientific tests were carried out on species and the theory is that humans who follow such diets will also see a similar result.
These days most foods have a count displayed on the packaging allowing to individuals to get the visibility of how much calories are in each food – for example a packet of crisp will be 106 calories etc. Recently there was a call for restaurants to have this information at hand for customers which would in turn help reduce the rise in obesity that we are now seeing in this country.
