Calories in Food by Dr. Philip S. Chua

Dr. Chua's article was very informative. It tackled about how important calorie intake is because it gives energy which our body would need inorder to  make physical activities. Calorie intake also determines a person's current weight and health status. He even showed how to calculate a person's total calorie requirement (TCR) by multiplying the ideal body weight (height in cm minus 100 less 10%) with the amount of calorie burned by a particular physical activity a person does. Dr. Chua gave many examples of activities and the average calories burned for each activity like walking slowly for 30 minutes will burn 106 calories or shopping for 30 minutes would burn 102 calories. The article was also well researched because there are a lot of data. He gave calorie counts for some vegetables like 90 grams of cooked okra and upo provides 16 calories. There are also calorie counts for some fruits like one slice of pineapple will yield 40 calories and calorie counts for other meats like one slice of bacon contains 45 calories. And most especially he was able to find calorie counts for some favorite Filipio delicacies like puto bumbong, sapin-sapin, biko, cassava cake and many more. Dr. Chua was able to give his readers a lot of information about calories which some people just ignore and he tried to inspire his readers to be more conscious on what to eat.