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∙ 13y agoThe amount of calories needed per day is determined by such factors as your level of physical activity (daily calorie expenditure), your state of health, and whether you want to gain weight, lose weight, or maintain weight.
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∙ 13y agoYour weight, age, gender, general health, how active you are, and even how much you think (since the brain consumes a relatively high amount of glucose).
The amount that should be consumed varies from person to person. For example, it depends on such things as your height, weight, age, activity levels, lifestyle, gender (male, female), and whether you need to lose weight, maintain weight, or gain weight. For more in-depth information about the correctly calorie intake for you, see the page link, further down this page, listed under Related Questions.I am a 17 year old male, and eat a large amount of calories per day (approximately 4,000 calories). I am not overweight, but I am very physically active. If you record how many calories are burned a day, then it is easier to determine how many calories you need. If you eat more than you burn, weight will be gained. If there are less calories consumed than used, weight will be lost. If they are equal (approximately) then there will be no major weight change.
Burning calories depends on a variety of things, one of which is moderate to intense active movement over a period of time. There are a lot of activities that can burn calories at a fast rate, and Taekwondo is definitely one of them. The exact amount of calories burned per unit of exercise may vary, but the most important thing is that you try to find something that you enjoy doing so that you will stick with it, and that it has a systemic effect to use the maximum amount of muscles throughout the body.
The number of calories per day for a 12-year-old depends on such things as body weight, health, and level of activity. It also depends on whether the 12-year-old needs to:lose weightgain weightmaintain weight.Please see the page link, further down this page, listed under Related Questions, to view the specific examples.As many as they like, but try to burn off the same amount of calories than you have put on. It doesn't really matter how much they have or how heavy they are at such a young age.
It depends on such things as your body weight, your degree of fitness, and what you are walking on - soft ground, hard ground, flat ground or incline.
Calories can make you gain weight, but it depends mostly on two things: the amount of exercise you do a day, and the amount of calories you are consuming. I watch my calorie intake and what I eat, and I run 3 or 4 times a week, and I'm losing weight... so it really depends.
It depends on the type of calories you are eating, avoid processed food and things such as fast food. You should focus on eating a healthy diet and not necessarily on counting calories.
It depends on which things you do, and for how long :)
It depends on many things and can take just a few years or many centuries.
Your weight, age, gender, general health, how active you are, and even how much you think (since the brain consumes a relatively high amount of glucose).
There is no way to answer how long it will take to lose weight because it depends on the calories that are being eaten daily. Three things a day may have more calories than six or ten things a day. Losing weight depends on one thing: calories in = calories out.
An average person might burn around 480 calories per hour playing football. However, it depends on such things as your weight, your degree of fitness, and how hard you are playing.
Both. Or better it depends on the amount. Even cabbage has energy. There are no things you can eat which help to "burn" calories. (incl. diet pills!). Furthermore it is always a bad idea to do a diet based on one single ingredient.
Depends on a lot of things, but maybe 300 calories.
Calorie intake depends on a lot of things, like height, weight, gender, age, activity level, muscle mass, and frame size.
It depends on the person. It vaires greatly based on things like gender, age, body type, weight, and a variety of other factors.