how many calories of food should we eat daily?

Answer 1

How many calories do we need a day

The amount of calories your body needs in a day is different for each person. The FDA bases Daily Reference Values on a 2,000 calorie diet. It’s important, however, that you know your own calorie needs since the Daily Values for energy-producing nutrients, such as fats, carbohydrates, and proteins, are based on recommended percentages of a total day’s caloric intake. For example, it is recommended that no more than 30 percent of your daily calories comes from fat. Since there are 9 calories per gram of fat, this means you should have no more than 600 calories from fat daily and no more than 65 grams of fat. Not everyone needs 2,000 calories a day, however, and some people may need more than that. The amount of calories you need daily is influenced by your body size, age, height, weight, activity level, and metabolism.

Recommended Energy Intake
Category Age Calories Per Day
Light Activity Moderate Activity Heavy Activity
Children
4-6 -------------------------------- 1800 ------------------------------
7-10-------------------------------- 2000 ------------------------------
Males
11-14------------------------------- 2500 -------------------------------
15-18------------------------------- 3000 ------------------------------
19-24 ------------- 2700 --------- 3000 -------------- 3600---------
25-50 ------------- 3000 --------- 3200 --------------- 4000---------
51+ ----------------------------- 2300

Females
11-18 ----------------------------- 2200------------------------------
19-24 ----------------2000----------- 2100----------------- 2600
25-50 ---------------2200 ---------- 2300 ---------------- 2800
51+ -------------------------------- 1900

Pregnant women in their second and third trimesters should add 300 calories to their recommended intake and nursing mothers should add 500 calories.

To determine what your activity level is, consider some of the following activities. Very light activities include driving, typing, painting, laboratory work, ironing, sewing, cooking, playing cards, or other seated or standing activities. Light activities include housecleaning, child care, garage work, electrical trade work, carpentry, restaurant work, golfing, sailing, or walking on a level surface at a rate of 2.5-3 miles per hour. Moderate activities include weeding, hoeing, carrying a load, cycling, skiing, tennis, dancing, or walking at a rate of 3.5-4 miles per hour. Heavy activities include heavy manual digging, tree felling, basketball, climbing, football, soccer, or carrying a load uphill

Answer 2

2000 Calory

Answer 3

Generally 2000 to 2250.calories

Answer 4

Depending on your need and necessity, you have to decide the calories of food you have to eat daily. Check your weight first. If your weight is lower than the normal as per your age and height, you need more calories. In case you are obese, you need less. However, 2000 to 3000 calories daily is suggested. Please have your general health checked. Consult a good dietician. Decide then the quantity of calories and type of food you have to consume. Quantity of calories differ from person to person based on the clinical necessity and general health.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The diet is too much to handle becaue you're making yourself uncomfortable. If you make yourself uncomfortable with dramatic lifestyle changes, you wont stick with it. I think what will work best for you is one or two small changes at a time. That is how a lot of people do it. My mom used to be big as the side of the house and she started with small changes. First she gave up candy bars and after a week or so she gave up cheese burgers then after another week or so she started walking a little bit.... and just gradually keep adding those small changes. Shes fit now.

I think you could benefit a lot with some nutrition or fitness coaching. Most people need that because they want to change and have all the drive to do it and stick with it, but just don't know what to do or how to start.

Small changes make all the difference. I don't know what you do all day but one small change could be to just start taking stairs instead of an elevator... or if you have whole milk with your cearal, switch to skim or 2% just things like that. Or, if you eat breakfast as school, instead of having the biscuits and gravy, have fruit and oatmeal or whatever else is available that's a better choice. Or stop having ketchup with your French fries (its all sugar). It really does work.

I've spent lots of money on diet clinics and stuff that use drugs or put you on a really strict diet and the results never lasted because it was just too dramatic and I went back to the same bad habits. The only things that ever let to lasting resuts was the small changes that I stuck with... like parking far away from buildings and walking through the parking lot rather than parking as close to the door as I could... I've even joined extreme fitness classes like crossifr and never stayed with them because it was just too much all at once.

One thing you can do that you wont really notice is don't eat everything on your plate... leave like 20% of it. At the end of the month, all that food really adds up.

Answer 7

Depends on how much calories does your "normal" day ends up burning. Ideally, an average built human needs just about 300 calories to breath, about 600 to walk a mile & use hands for eating food. Rest depends on how much you involve yourself in physical work - like typing, cooking, having sex or even lifting stones!

Answer 8

It is ideal for a man to consume 2500 calories per day and a woman 2000 calories per day just to keep the body in good functioning.To lose weight lesser calories have to be consumed.

Answer 9

The amount of calories your body needs in a day is different for each person. The FDA bases Daily Reference Values on a 2,000 calorie diet. It’s important, however, that you know your own calorie needs since the Daily Values for energy-producing nutrients, such as fats, carbohydrates, and proteins, are based on recommended percentages of a total day’s caloric intake. For example, it is recommended that no more than 30 percent of your daily calories comes from fat. Since there are 9 calories per gram of fat, this means you should have no more than 600 calories from fat daily and no more than 65 grams of fat. Not everyone needs 2,000 calories a day, however, and some people may need more than that. The amount of calories you need daily is influenced by your body size, age, height, weight, activity level, and metabolism.

Recommended Energy Intake
Category Age Calories Per Day
Light Activity Moderate Activity Heavy Activity
Children
4-6 ------------------------------... 1800 ------------------------------
7-10--------------------------... 2000 ------------------------------
Males
11-14-------------------------... 2500 ------------------------------...
15-18-------------------------... 3000 ------------------------------
19-24 ------------- 2700 --------- 3000 -------------- 3600---------
25-50 ------------- 3000 --------- 3200 --------------- 4000---------
51+ ----------------------------- 2300

Females
11-18 ----------------------------- 2200--------------------------...
19-24 ----------------2000----------... 2100----------------- 2600
25-50 ---------------2200 ---------- 2300 ---------------- 2800
51+ ------------------------------... 1900

Pregnant women in their second and third trimesters should add 300 calories to their recommended intake and nursing mothers should add 500 calories.

Answer 10

2000