Calories Expenditure in Activities - Calories in Food Items

11.5.2023

Your 3% more when you are sitting and 12% more when you are standing. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/well/move/stand-more-lounge-less-dont-do-it-to-lose-weight.html

https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/what-to-know-about-standing-to-burn-calories

March 2017

Calories Expenditure in Activities

Men   Restin Metabolic Rate Formula (RMR)  = 88.362 + 4.799(cm) + 13.397(kg) - 5.677(age)
          Height = cm (1" = 2.54cm), Weight in kg (2.2# = 1kg), Age in years

Activity                          Energy Expenditure
                                         (calories/min/kg)

Sleeping                                       0.02
Sitting Activities (very light)      0.03
Standing (very light)              0.04
Walking (3 mph 20 min/mile)      0.06
Stretching/Yoga                      0.06

https://www.acefitness.org/updateable/update_display.aspx?pageID=593

McArdle, W., Katch, F., & Katch, V. (2001). Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition, and Human Performance (5th Ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins


Find calories required by you based on McArdle - Match formula

http://www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/CalorieResult.asp

Calories Expenditure for 71 Kg man

activities                            leeping   Sitting  Standing  Walking
calories/min/kg                      0.02    0.03 0.04        0.06
calories/min                           1.42    2.13 2.84        4.26
Minutes spent in a day           600     600 180         60
Hours Spent in a day               10        10          3            1
Total Calories                         852 1278 511.2 255.6

Grand Total calories spent for a day                             2896.8
Assuming 2500 calories consumption per day is more appropriate



Other Estimates

The researchers found subjects burned about 1 calorie per kilogram of body weight per hour while reclining, 1.08 sitting while reading or watching TV, and 1.11 while typing at a computer.

68 kg  - 68 calories per hour


http://www.zmescience.com/medicine/burned-calories-when-lazy-064346/


How Many Calories We Burn When We Sit, Stand or Walk
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS  JUNE 22, 2016
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/22/how-many-calories-we-burn-when-we-sit-stand-or-walk/?_r=0


http://www.livestrong.com/article/1003261-many-calories-burn-lying-down/

Sitting 75 calories per hour
http://www.livestrong.com/article/1006250-average-miles-person-can-walk-per-day/

http://www.livestrong.com/article/322307-calories-burned-per-hour-sitting/


Standing instead of sitting may help you burn 20 to 50 more calories per hour. So standing for four hours a day can burn an extra 80 to 200 calories.

Stand Up Challenge  - Stand for 3 Hours every day
http://www.livestrong.com/article/73916-calories-burned-standing-vs.-sitting/

Stand for 3 hours a day - It is good for you - BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24532996



Calories in Foods

http://www.fitnessvsweightloss.com/best-south-indian-diet-chart-for-weight-loss/

https://jtmadhavan.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/the-calorie-chart-of-indian-food.pdf

http://www.uccs.edu/Documents/healthcircle/pnc/health-topics/Meal%20Planning.pdf

http://www.livestrong.com/article/281019-1-800-calorie-diet-to-lose-weight/

http://southindianfoods.in/south_indian_food_caloriechart.html

http://www.thehealthsite.com/fitness/calories-in-common-south-indian-dishes/

http://www.indiaparenting.com/calorie/

http://deepthidigvijay.blogspot.in/p/health-diet-calorie-charts.html


Maintaining the Healthy Weight
US Dept. of Health
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/files/docs/public/heart/AIM_Pocket_Guide_tagged.pdf



Updated 11.5.2023, 5 March 2017,   13 December 2016,  1 December 2016