Getting certain facts about nutrition is not a task these days when everyone is talking about health. By taking in certain qualities of an individual there are certain calculator software that will tell you exactly how much calories you have to intake. The qualities that are taken into consideration are height, weight, age, and the level of activity performed every day.
Each individual is unique, but these calculators can help you with the groundwork of how many calories you need to consume for a day. You can adjust the caloric intake when you start noticing if you are losing or gaining weight. There is one way to have an eye on the caloric consumption, and this is through nutrition fact labels. Although you can easily find these nutrition fact labels, it can misguide you as you may misread it.
Certain Important Nutrition Facts
The serving size is the basic part of the nutrition fact label. However, this is not followed by most of you as you ignore what is on the label and have two or three servings without being bothered about the caloric intake and the damage it does to your body. Under the serving size and amount of servings is the amount of calories listed. So, if you have two or three servings you are consuming that many times of calories.
Such problems are common when it comes to soft drinks and sweet tea especially. Although, the label says two or two three servings, the caloric value given will only be around 100 calories. However, the caloric value is just for one serving and is just misread by the consumer. So, if you have two or three cans, you are not consuming 300 calories, but 600 to 900 calories.
The other part of the nutrition facts label is the nutrients that should be consumed on a limited basis. They include saturated fats, sodium, and cholesterol that have to be consumed only on a five percent range whereas the other nutrients can be consumed on a twenty percent range.