Calorie and Healthy Eating

Calorie plays a vital role in our life. The foods of the food pyramid are necessary for our best possible health. But in what amounts and which ones are the best? These are questions that must be tailored to our individual nutritional needs.

And the answers will benefit our unique requirements. Healthy for me, is not the same as healthy for you. Everyone’s nutritional needs are different, and everyone’s level of calorie utilization is different

USDA food pyramid

As you study the USDA food pyramid, we can examine some of the better foods, and try to decide what particular formulas make us the healthiest on average.

The average person needs an hour of physical exercise, six to eleven servings of grains, three to five servings of vegetables, two to four servings of fruit, two to three servings of milk, two to three servings of meat, and enough water to make it all work.

The USDA food pyramid guidelines are as listed above, and this could be the formula for an eighty year old man, or a fifteen year old girl. The recommended daily calorie dosage is just as vague and generalized as the daily food intake in the food pyramid.

Can you see how this might not work for either one? When a USDA food pyramid guideline published is this general, it is up to the individual to determine what food routine will keep them at their healthiest, provide the caloric intake necessary, but not excessive.

Calorie Intake According to USDA food pyramid

According to the USDA food pyramid guidelines, calorie needs vary from one age group to another, one gender to another. So how do you determine what your individual needs are?

You can setup a journal for recording your daily caloric intake for about a month. Make a note of your weight each day. If you don’t gain any weight during the course of that month, you’re eating your recommended calorie level in order to maintain your weight.

Now, take that calorie information, use the USDA food pyramid and comprise a combination of foods that will help you achieve this suggested daily intake, and still be enough to be filling and please the palette. You now have an individualized healthy eating plan.

Cutting Down The Calorie Intake

If your goal were to cut calorie utilization, you would be among the latest wave of health conscious individuals who believe that a low calorie intake keeps us in our healthiest condition.

There have been studies done with rats that lend credibility to this claim. Lowering the rat’s body weight by only 10% yielded a longer life; longer life spans were noted for up to a 30% cut in daily calorie intake.

Anything past that point produced unhealthy consequences. Now, exactly how this translates into human life spans, we’re not sure. Once we understand the importance of a particular food plan, it is a simple as learning our multiplication tables.

Exercise

We simply memorize the food necessities, and incorporate it into our daily intake as needed. As you take the time to incorporate a healthy food plan, don’t’ forget the necessity of exercise in our daily lives.

In order to keep our bodies healthy and functioning as expected, we need to keep it fit. This comes through proper amounts of exercise. This guide will not work for Brother Bill or Sister Sue, but it is the unique blueprint for you.

It is at this point in the process that we seem to lack the direction to finish what the government started. Maybe we need to incorporate these techniques into a class taught at school.

Maybe this would give our young people the direction and tools they need in order to begin such a process, make it a lifetime habit, and pass it along to their children.

Whatever the formula, your food intake and level of calorie content, will affect your general overall health everyday. Eating too much can bring on obesity, under eating can bring about anemia; you need to find that one right guide for you, and plan, plan, plan.

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