Finding Your Balance between food and physical activity

The following is an excerpt from CDC.

Controlling your intake of food is only half the battle of maintaining a healthy body weight. The calories you consume every day from food and beverages are burned through exercise. Weight loss occurs when your use more calories than you consume. Similarly, weight gain occurs when your caloric intake is higher than your usage. Physical activity is necessary to “control body weight by balancing the calories you take in as food with the calories you expend each day.”

The National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion recommends the following:

• Be physically active, at a moderate intensity for at least 30 minutes most days of the week.
• Increasing the intensity or the amount of time that you are physically active can have even greater health benefits and may be needed to control body weight. About 60 minutes a day may be needed to prevent weight gain.
• Children and teenagers should be physically active 60 minutes every day, or most every day.