Count-2000-Calories

The Worst Foods in America - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog If you are going the count 2000 calories plan you may consider these facts. The book mentioned in the article enumerate 20 foods the auther considers them the worst foods in America. Looking at their calorie content, we find the following details: 1- An Ice Cream contains 1600 Calories 2- A Turkey Burger contains 1145 Cals 3- A Salad and Beef Taco contains 102 g fat, these fats give 918 Cals 4- Chicken Breast Strips contain 870 Cals 5- A roll snack contains 813 Cals 6- A juice that contains 166 g of sugar which yield 664 Cals 7- A Roasted Chicken Pot Pie that contains 64 g of fat. The fat alone yields 576 Cals 8- A Macaroni and Cheese kids meal contains 62 fat which produce 558 Cals If you eat these foods habitually you can't count 2000 calories every day.

Eating 1200-calories every day? I would have died starving! Eating 1200-calories/day seems to be more theoretical than it is practical or healthy style of eating. There are many myths concerning consuming that extremely low amounts of calories. For example : # If you are eating 1200- calories/day, where do you get the calories needed for your basal metabolic rate [ it is around 2000-calories/day]. Burning body fats involves some other techniques that should maintain basal metabolic rate. # If you eat 1200- calories per day, how do you get your basic nutrient needs, like essential fatty acids, essential sugars, trace elements,minerals and vitamins in a natural form. They all need a wide versification of foods, and each food carries additional calories. # If you eat 1200- calories per day, how do you get the taste , satisfaction, or ease of meal preparation. If we consider another - better actually - style of eating, that is eating 2000 calories/day, you can : # With counting 2000- calo...

If you go count -2000-calories plan, you should count 300-calories coming from bread through the whole day, preferably not made of refined flour. This is a list to show you the way you can deal with bread through your day, so if you take 1 slice of Average White bread that contains 100 calories you have to count other 200 calories of bread to be taken during this day, whether of the same type or of other types. Here is the list: # Average Brown bread : 1 slice contains 82-calories. You count 218 (it certainly can be 220) calories of other breads. # Average White bread : 1 slice contains 100-calories. You count 200-calories of other breads. # Brown Rolls : 1 slice contains 94-calories. You count-206 calories of other breads. # Croissants : 1 slice contains 133-calories. You count 167-calories of other breads. # Cracker bread : 1 slice contains 17-calories. you count 283-calories of other breads, or of the same bread. # Crisp bread : 1 slice contains 38-calories. You count 262-calor...

Subtract 200-calories of the 2000-calories you count every day to include these foods in your daily intake. When you include them in your daily intake, you will be surprised by the following effects: * Health promoting Effects include ;: 1- Get your body needs of important minerals like: Potassium, Calcium.Magnesium, Phosphorous, Copper, Zinc, and Selenium in their natural forms. 2- Get important portion of your needs of vitamins like: A,B,C, and E in their natural forms. 3- Get additional amounts of naturally occurring bio-metabolites in the body like Glutathione which has powerful antioxidant properties. * Disease fighting effects include : 1- Naturally occurring Anti-oxidants that act unspecific in the whole body to protect it from foreign noxious insults, examples are, Glutathione in Asparagus, Quercetin in Fennel, and Carotenoids in green leafy vegetables. 2- Phyto-chemical substances that were recently found to have specific effects on some organs or diseases, like : # Inulin in...