Question

Discretionnary calories

Answer 1

Discretionary calories are the extra amount of calories that we eat after the fulfillment of our daily calories requirement. We can obtain eat from fatty foods like fried foods and whole milk.

This calorie plays a great role in body weight management, the normal limit of Discretionary calories per day should be below 300 calories.

In some individuals Discretionary calorie requirement increases due to increases in physical activity, so, it varies individual to individual.

People are advised to use their Discretionary calorie limit in a good way means we can eat low calorie but high vitamin and mineral-dense foods.

Increased consumption of Discretionary calories leads to weight gain and decreases the consumption of Discretionary calories leads to weight loss.