Daily Caloric Recommendations, True & False Health Quiz

True or False

2,000 Calories per day is the ideal number of calories that should be consumed daily.

False.

This is a very common misconception because most labels base the nutrition facts on a 2,000 calorie daily diet. Two thousand calorie daily diets are generally the standard for product labels.

The 2,000 per day diet is often used by the USDA to provide an example of proper nutrition. The number of calories is based on the average adult caloric needs and is at recommended weight.

The number of calories that an individual requires in their daily diet differs from one individual to the next. In fact, our bodies are so efficient that each of us require a different number of calories each and every day depending upon our current level of health, our activity level and so forth.

So whereas an individual may have a very good idea of the number of calories their bodies uses on a daily basis, that number is continually changing. It's just one more thing that makes weight maintenance - as well as weight loss, tricky.

Alcohol Calories & Daily Diet

The calories in alcoholic beverages add up very swiftly. Let's use Frank as our example who has been invited to a holiday party. Frank enjoys a great Gin & Tonic - and at the holiday party he decides to enjoy three. Whoops, he really went overboard.

The side-effects of the alcohol aside, Frank has just added over 500 calories to his daily total. And these are unfortunately - in the area of empty calories as they offer little-to-no nutritional value to his daily diet.

Frank can only consume 2,000 calories per day without experiencing weight gain. He has already consumed 1,800 calories as he planned to party later in the day.

Frank will need to perform some form of activity such as dancing in order to burn off the excess three hundred calories or those will be stored in his fat cells for later use by the body in the form of energy.

Let's hope that Frank feels like dancing and that he doesn't feel like his head is going to explode come morning...

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