The Persons needed Calories

Your body need energy, protein, mineral, vitamin, and fiber. In order to get all of these, it is important to have a varied and balance diet, and to eat the right to amount of food. Ypur body 'burn' food to energy: the amount of energy provided bye of food is measured in units called calories.

How many calories do you need? Thus depends on your weight and what you do. When you are sleep, you body uses nearly one calorie an hour for every kilogram of weight. So, a person who weighs sevently kilos, uses about 560 calories while sleeping for eight hours. More calories are needed for different activities from 100 calories an hour for reading or watchig TV, to 350 calories an hour for playing football.

To calculatae the number of calories needed per day fo an average person, first, find out the person's ideal weight. the multiply the weght by 40 for a woman and 46 for a man. A 60-kilo woman many neede about 2400 calories a day-more if she does heavy physical work and less if she is very inactive.