How do you use our Calorie Counter?

It’s simple to use: you input the type of food and quantities you have consumed in a day as accurately as you can and let the counter add up the total calories you have consumed. If you use our BMR calculator you can calculate how many calories your body needs in a day and therefore workout if you are consuming too many calories or not enough. Pretty simple and very useful I think you will agree?

What makes our Calorie Counter different?

DRI stands for Dietary Reference Intake. It was established in 1997 by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy. It took the original RDA guidelines which make up only part of the bigger picture.

What makes up DRI?

DRI measurements are calculated from 4 guidelines. These are as follows:

Estimated Average Requirements (EAR): These calculations are an estimate based on the average ideal intake of a nutrient. As it is an average, 50% of people will need less and 50% of people will need more. A good rough guide but not very accurate.

Aspartame (E951) aka Nutrasweet is 200 times sweeter than sugar and is used in over 6000 food products as an artificial sweetener. It was approved in the early 1980’s for dry foods and carbonated drinks and, after another risk assessment, that approval was reaffirmed in 2002 strengthening the feeling that there is no evidence that aspartame (at its recommended dosage of 40mg per kg of body weight per day) is bad for your health. That said there are other reports that seem to paint a rather different picture, which could be particularly relevant when you realise that aspartame accounts for over 75% of the adverse reactions to food additives that are reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

There is nothing worse than having a bad game of tennis, or is there? How about an injury that if left untreated can not only leave you in a lot of pain but can keep you away from the court entirely for a much as a couple of years? I know that I would gladly stick with my usual bad game than suffer any injury that leaves me with no choice about playing or not. If you don’t believe me then just watch a tennis match and see if you can spot the injured player in the crowd who wants to be out there. With a face like a child’s who has just opened the unwanted Christmas present slouched in their chair as though the life has literally been sucked out of them; they shouldn’t be hard to spot.

The eating disorder charity Beat has stated that it feels gyms should do more to spot clients with eating disorders and their tendency to over train in the gym. In the video below the reporter talks to Lindsay who suffered from a eating disorder and turned to over exercising when she felt she wasn’t losing enough weight because other people were in control of her food intake. The reporter also talks to Susan Ringwood from Beat who states that gyms should be doing more as they already test for other physical problems like heart complaints and asthma and Beat would like gyms to do the same with eating disorders.