1600 Calorie Specific Diet

1600 Calorie Specific Diet

1600 Calorie Specific diet:

The amount of calories you should eat every day depends on a few things:

• Age, height and gender
• Daily activity level
• If you want to lose, maintain or gain weight

The History of Calorie Counting

People haven’t been counting calories forever (though some days it may feel as if youhave). The idea became popular around the turn of the 20th century, according to Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS, a board-certified nutritionist and author of Living the Low Carb Life: Choosing the Diet that’s Right for You from Atkins to Zone, and The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why. At that time, scientist Wilbur Atwater noticed that if you put food in a machine, called a “bomb calorimeter,” and burned it, you could measure the ash and heat to find out how much “energy” was released and therefore how much “energy” was in the food. The idea caught on, and people began counting calories — that is, calculating exactly how many calories were consumed when eating particular foods, and “burned” when engaging in different activities. “A spate of diet books in the early part of the century popularized the notion that it’s all about the calories — and it’s been with us ever since,” Bowden tells WebMD.