The food we eat, and what it does for our body is important information that we need to keep in mind in order to maintain good health.

In fact, with proper intake of calories and burning calories accordingly helps us remain disease-free.

Here are some nutritional facts for kids…

A calorie (capital ‘C’), is a unit that measures the amount of energy in foods. It is also known as a kilocalorie and is equal to 1,000 calories (small ‘c’).

A calorie is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade. An adult might burn upto 3,000 Calories a day. Eating too many Calories that the body does not use for energy may make you fat.

Nutritionists and scientists also use another unit, the kilojoule, for measuring the energy in food. One Calorie equals 0.004184 kilojoules.

Given below is the amount of calories one can burn by doing certain activities (It is a per hour count):
Squash – 844
Skipping – 704
Swimming – 704
Rowing – 563
Football – 493
Tennis – 493
Roller skating – 493
Aerobics – 422
Cricket – 352
Gardening – 352
Dancing – 317
Golf – 281
Table tennis – 281
Walking a dog – 246
Playing a piano – 176
Standing – 120
Sitting – 90
Sleeping – 65

How much food do you think you will eat in a lifetime?
According to experts, an average person will eat more that 50 tonnes of food over an 80-year lifespan.

Here are some interesting figures…

An interesting fact…
The world drinks over 150 billion liters of bottled water every year. That is enough to fill 60,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.