CALCULATING CALORIES BURNED
As is now well known, more than the quantity of food eaten, it is the QUALITY that is more important. Otherwise there is greater risk of succumbing to various diseases like diabetes, obesity, angina, heart attacks and even cancer.
To determine whether you are overweight or at risk, there is now a fundamental test, which simply uses your age, height and weight, and indexes it, and comes up with the ideal weight for your age and height.
Well, there is information about how to calculate broadly how much calories you burn during your exercise activity in any form.
Most of us have sedentary life styles, little or no skills in physical activity. And you may be curious how this information on calories burned calculated is. Well, the health researchers have by clinical trials and other research have found that a particular activity over a particular period of time, consumes “x” amount of calories. Thus if you have to lose “A” amount of calories every day, you can choose from a variety of physical activity and calculate for yourself by using the table below:
Examples of Moderate* Amounts of Activity




