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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


Washing and waxing a car for 45-60 minutes

Less Vigorous, More Time**
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More Vigorous, Less Time

Washing windows or floors for 45-60 minutes

Playing volleyball for 45 minutes

Playing touch football for 30-45 minutes

Gardening for 30-45 minutes

Wheeling self in wheel-chair for 30-40 minutes

Walking 1¾ miles in 35 minutes (20 min/mile)

Basketball (shooting baskets) for 30 minutes

Bicycling 5 miles in 30 minutes

Dancing fast (social) for 30 minutes

Pushing a stroller 1½ miles in 30 minutes

Raking leaves for 30 mintues

Walking 2 miles in 30 minutes (15 min/mile)

Water aerobics for 30 minutes

Swimming laps for 20 minutes

Wheelchair basketball for 20 minutes

Basketball (playing a game) for 15-20 minutes

Bicycling 4 miles in 15 minutes

Jumping rope for 15 minutes

Running 1½ miles in 15 minutes (10 min/mile)

Shoveling snow for 15 minutes

Stairwalking for 15 minutes

*A moderate amount of physical activity is roughly equivalent to physical activity that uses approximately 150 calories of energy per day or 1,000 calories per week.
**Some activities can be performed at various intensities; the suggested durations correspond to expected intensity of effort.


 Duration of Various Activities to Expend 150 Kilocalories for an Average 70 kg (154 lb) Adult


Intensity

Activity

Approximate Duration in Minutes

Moderate

Volleyball, noncompetitive

43

Moderate

Walking, moderate pace (3 mph, 20 min/mile)

37

Moderate

Walking, brisk pace (4 mph, 15 min/mile)

32

Moderate

Table tennis

32

Moderate

Raking leaves

32

Moderate

Social dancing

29

Moderate

Lawn mowing (powered push mower)

29

Hard

Jogging (5 mph, 12 min/mile)

18

Hard

Field hockey

16

Very Hard

Running (6 mph, 10 min/mile)

13

Source: Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health
With time, a larger weekly volume of physical activity can be performed that would normally cause a greater weight loss if it were not compensated by a higher caloric intake. Reducing sedentary time is another approach to increasing activity. Patients should be encouraged to build physical activities into each day. Examples include leaving public transportation one stop before the usual one, parking further than usual from work or shopping, and walking up stairs instead of taking elevators or escalators. 

Health professionals should encourage patients to plan and schedule physical activity 1 week in advance, budget the time necessary to do it, and document their physical activity by keeping a diary and recording the duration and intensity of exercise.

*This information has been taken from the website of the US Government, and acknowledges that with grateful thanks. The website is www.health.gov.

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