An effort to enhance one’s awareness of the calories burned daily should therefore be included in any attempt to develop a more fit body. A study of human physiology can underline that fact. It can also pinpoint the relation between fitness and calorie consumption.
In the spring of 1973, a biology professor at Mount Holyoke College was presenting a lecture about the calories burned daily. He shared with his students some news about his recent purchase of an electric garage door opener. He indicated that use of that device would save him many extra steps every day.
No doubt a few of his students had begun to wonder how an electric garage door opener could relate the human physiology. The professor apparently expected his students to entertain such a question. He explained how his new purchase of a garage door opener had affected his calories burned daily.
The professor suggested that he might need to make some changes in his diet, in order to compensate for his anticipated decrease in the number of calorie he consumed daily. He did not, however, say how he planned to work-off those extra calories. Perhaps he prevented a gain of a couple pounds through calories burned walking.
That was how one of his students late lost many pounds. While at Mount Holyoke College, she had burned some calories by going to the free swim at the pool in the Physical Education Building. Much later in her life, when commuting to work by bus and train, she lost weight through the calories burned walking. Those calories added considerably to the calories burned daily by that working mother.
In fact, that mother soon found that she could not put on weight. Moreover, her fat stores had become so low that her appetite had begun to gnaw at her stomach. On some days she experienced a ravenous hunger. On some days she felt like she would never reach a stage of satiety.
Satiety is the tendency to stop eating once one feels satisfied. Satiety serves to remind the body that one can feel quite uncomfortable if one has literally “stuffed” oneself with food. Attention the feeling of satiety can help an individual to coordinate his or her food intake with the calories burned daily. The ability to control one’s diet, so that one fails to eat more calories than one consumes can help a person to stay in shape.
In other words, the ability to control one’s diet has a direct bearing on one’s fitness. That fact is true regardless of the manner is which one hopes to become more fit. If one eats too few calories, then one fails to deliver to the body its needed energy supply. Like the tendency to overeat, the inclination to refrain from eating vital nutrients can cause a person to become less fit.