Calorie Counter Activity

HEALTH CARE AND CALORIES

When you consider how much you eat, do you ever count calories? According to dieticians, fitness instructors, and weight loss management experts, your caloric intake has a direct affect on how much you weight you gain or lose. Additionally, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that calories be listed on any packaged food product. Calorie counting is an easy way for you to manage your weight. This website has a calorie counter that will help you accomplish that goal: http://www.thecaloriecounter.com/ .

Why is calorie counting so popular? As Americans, we love easy sound bites, according to WebMD. Plus, counting calories (or fat grams) is far easier than actually understanding the complex effects food has on our bodies (and our waistlines). Calories do count, but they are far from the whole picture. Food produces hormonal effects in the body. Some hormones say 'store that fat'; others say 'release sugar'; others say 'build muscle.' Study after study shows that diets based on the same amount of calories, but different proportions of fat, protein and carbohydrates, result in different amounts of weight loss.

According to the Mayo Clinic, calories are the energy in food. Your body has a constant demand for energy and uses the calories from food to keep functioning. Energy from calories fuels your every action, from fidgeting to marathon running. Carbohydrates, fats and proteins are the types of nutrients that contain calories and are the main energy sources for your body. The amount of energy in each varies. Proteins and carbohydrates have about 4 calories a gram, and fats have about 9 calories a gram. Alcohol also is a source of calories, providing about 7 calories a gram. Regardless of where they come from, the calories you eat are either converted to physical energy or stored within your body as fat. These stored calories will remain in your body as fat unless you use them up, either by reducing calorie intake so that your body must draw on reserves for energy, or by increasing physical activity so that you burn more calories. Your weight is a balancing act, but the equation is simple: If you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight.

Because 3,500 calories equals about 1 pound (0.45 kilogram) of fat, you need to burn 3,500 calories more than you take in to lose 1 pound. So if you cut 500 calories from your typical diet each day, you'd lose about 1 pound a week (500 calories x 7 days = 3,500 calories). Cutting calories doesn't have to be difficult.

Summer 2011 Entrepreneurship Experiences – Internship Week 7!

I was assigned the project of making a data evidence table of existing calorie counter and physical activity applications for smartphones and tablets. A team in the Public Health Sciences department received a fund to create an application that is a calorie counter/physical activity tracker. Not a lot of information is known about this project yet, so that is why my description of the project is so vague. I used the Android Market and the iTunes store to gather information on the applications that are already created. I have been looking closely at how the dietary intake is entered and if the user enters the food and calorie information or if the calorie information is simply drawn from a database or external source. They were also interested in learning if the applications provided any level of nutrition feedback (meeting goals, diet quality, etc.) and seeing the source of the information if nutritional feedback was provided. I was also looking to see if the program allowed for tracking of physical activity and if the application used accelerometry as opposed to self-entry. A few other pieces that were of some interest to the team was application cost, platforms that support the application and existing reviews. I tried a few applications out on my phone (Droid X) using the Android platform and then other applications that were specific to the Apple platform I tested out on my iPod Touch to figure out which applications were the most user friendly. The target age that the team wants to supply this application to is roughly ~55-65 years old, so the application needs to be user friendly and concise.

I also had theprivilegeof meeting with one of my professors, Ann Geiger MPH, PhD. Dr. Geiger is an associate professor at the medical center campus, as well as the Reynolda campus. Her background is in epidemiolgic science, so it was nice to bounce ideas off of her and trying to figure out different careers with the Public Health Science field. The field is very vast and there are so many opportunities and ways to self-guide your degree into a specific field that you are passionate about!

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