Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(2)
In America today, by contrast, obtaining calories is very nearly effortless; as Power and Schulkin observe, with a few dollars it's possible to go to the grocery store and purchase enough sugar or vegetable oil to fulfill the average person's energy requirements for a week.
But as we've reshaped the world around us, radically diminishing the cost and effort involved in obtaining calories, we still have the same brains we evolved thousands of years ago, and this mismatch is at the heart of why so many of us struggle to resist tempting foods that we know we shouldn't eat.
Similar(58)
WHY THEY CAME To obtain calories while on a break from cleaning out their apartment, which they plan to leave this month.
Herculano-Houzel shows that it is not the size of our brain that matters but the fact that we have more neurons in the cerebral cortex than any other animal, thanks to our ancestors' invention, some 1.5 million years ago, of a more efficient way to obtain calories: cooking.
For instance, this free calorie-counting tool allows you to search for foods by name and obtain calorie information almost instantly.
Because 1 mg of Artemia contains approximately 5 calories, it was estimated that a zebrafish would obtain 20 calories from 5 mg of Artemia at 80% consumption, and 150 calories from 60 mg of Artemia at 50% consumption.
The main objective of nutrition in critical care is to obtain a calorie content of 25 to 35 Kcal/Kg/day at two to three days [ 1- 3].
In Mexico, PROGRESA households consumed 7.1% (p <0.05) more calories than control households, with the greatest impact on calories obtained from vegetable and animal products.
Daily energy uptake was calculated from the amount of calories obtained from ingested fructose (4 Kcal/gm) and standard rodents chow (Table 1 shows composition and amount of calories in one gm of the standard rodents chow).
The study showed that the average proportion of daily calories obtained from added sugar rose from 15.7% in 1988-1994 to 16.8% in 1999-2004.
But, moving on — researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that working adults obtained nearly 1,300 calories per week from foods and beverages they got at work.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com