Do you know What is a Calorie? 🥑🥜🌽🥗☕🍹🍱

Hey My Dear Friends 😍,

We hear about calories all the time. What is a calorie? And think about how many of them do we actually need? Calories are a method of keeping track of the body's energy budget. A healthy balance occurs when we put in about as much energy as we lose. When we consistently put more energy into our bodies than we burn, the excess will gradually be stored as fat in our cells, and we'll gain weight.

Let's think, if we burn off more energy than we replenish, we'll lose weight. So we have to be able to measure the energy we consume and use, and do so with a unit called the calorie. One calorie has, the kind we measure in food, also called a large calorie, is defined as the amount of energy it would take to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. Everything we consume has a calorie count, a measure of how much energy stores of the item in its chemical bonds.

For a example, the average pizza slice has 272 calories, there are about 78 in a piece of bread, and an apple has about 52. That energy is released during digestion, and stored in other molecules that can be broken down to provide energy when the body needs it. It's used in three ways: about 10% enables digestion, about 20% fuels physical activity, and the biggest chunk,around 70% supports the basic functions of our organs and tissues. This third usage way corresponds to your basal metabolic rate, a number of calories you would need to survive if you weren't eating or moving around.

We can add in some physical activity and digestion and you arrive at the official guidelines for how many calories the average person requires each day. I believe you will learn something new about calories from this article. I will end this article by thanking you for joining my article! Have a healthy day! 🎉️✨️

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