Caloriesperhour.com


 * Term:** CaloriesPerHour.com


 * Description:** CaloriesPerHour.com is a website founded by Peter Christensen. Peter had the idea for the website when he had trouble searching for information on calories burned by various activities. Peter thought that the solution to maintaining a healthy body doesn't come from another diet, but through education. CaloriesPerHour.com provides different calculators to calculate Food Calories and Nutrition, Body Mass Index, and calories burned during different activities.

The website also provides a Diet and Weight Loss tutorial, which includes different information including "Selecting a Diet Plan," "What it Takes to Lose a Pound," "Calculating Ideal Weight," and "Why Exercise is Important for Weight Loss." This information falls under different topics, such as "Understanding Calories," "Healthy Food and Weight Loss," "Understanding Your Body," "Diet and Weight Loss Aids," and "Water, Vitamins, and Smoking." These are just some of the helpful topics this website provides. They provide everything a person may need to know, from eating right to which exercises burn up the most calories.

Along with the tutorial, CaloriesPerHour.com also provides a section with "Diet and Weight Loss Tips", which gives the user tips and insight on how to lose weight, to "look better, feel better, and live a healthier life." The tips are as follows:

1.How Did I Get Here? 2.Are You Ready to Diet? Again? 3.Take Control of What You Eat 4.Eat Frequently, and Eat Slowly 5.Eat More Fruits, Vegetables and Whole Grains 6.Eat More Fiber 7.Cut Down on Sugar 8.Too Much of a Bad Thing 9.Too Little of a Good Thing 10.Exercise Regularly 11.Take It Easy 12.Begin Now

Each tip has a paragraph explaining the meaning behind each tip. For example, tip # 3 tells us that "there are few things that we have complete control over, but what we put in our mouths is one of them. We don't have to lose control in a restaurant or a friend's home, and we don't have to eat everything that's put in front of us." By using these tips, along with the other information on the website, the user can effectively monitor, control, and change their habits in order to see results.

CaloriesPerHour.com provides a wide array of applications which are there to help you with your fitness goal. Their "Calories Burned Calculator" page has a numerous amount of calculators. Among these is a BMI calculator, which calculates one’s body mass index, a BMR and RMR calculator which calculates one’s Basal and Resting metabolic rates and also how many calories you burn a day based on general activity. Also included is an activity calculator, where you can “choose from hundreds of activities to see how many calories they burn, or calculate how many calories you burn in 24 hours.” There are also 5 advanced calculators for running, walking, in-line skating, bicycling, and ellipticals.
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The "Food Calories & Nutrition Calculator" offers many food options, categorized by ethnic cuisines, groceries, fast food restaurants, grocery brands, and 100 calorie packs. Once you pick a food, all you need to do is hit the calculate button and a summary of calories, protein, fat, carbs, fiber, and sodium that it is in the serving.

The weight loss calculator provides three different types of calculators which calculates the time it would take for you to reach your desired weight, the daily calorie deficit required to reach your goal weight, and your weight loss period over time. Along with this calculator, CaloriesPerHour.com provides a Body Height, weight, and food quantities converter.With this converter, you can convert your weight from pounds to kilograms, height from inches to centimeters, food weight from ounces to grams, and tablespoons to teaspoons, to even millilitres.

The products page offers a number of items for "healthy and sustainable weight loss". Products include a book called __"Burn the Fat, feed the Muscle"__, by Tom Venuto, a Hoodia appetite supplement, which is supposed to trick your mind into thinking you're full, a set of self hypnosis CDs which supposedly help you stick to your diet and exercise plan, and another book called __Eat to Live"__, by Dr. Joel Fuhrman.

CaloriesPerHour.com also provides a Diet and Weight Loss forum. The forum provides a way for people to talk about what they are doing and to get and give advice to other people. The forum includes topics such as Success Stories, My Diary; a place to share your diary about your activities, thoughts, and progress, Surgery, Diet Pills and Supplements, Diet Buddies, and a place just for teens.

A free newsletter, written by Meagan Porter, RD is emailed to subscribers every Wednesday morning. The newsletter provides information to help you with your diet an weight loss goals, and is purposely distributed mid week to keep you focused on your fitness goals. The writer, Megan Porter, is a registered dietitian who also has some background as a weight loss instructor and diabetes educator. She received her education at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University, respectively.

CaloriesPerHour.com is also partnered with LIVESTRONG.com, a cancer philanthropic organization.

http://www.caloriesperhour.com/
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