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25 January 2021

The energy balance explained

The energy balance explained

by Gianluca Tognon / Monday, 23 March 2015 / Published in Diet & Health
Energy balance

It is often said that being overweight results from an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure. When more food energy is consumed than is needed, excess fat accumulates in the fat cells in the adipose tissue. Scientists define this situation as an imbalance in the energy balance. But what is energy balance? And what happens in the body when we eat too much or too little food? EUFIC, the EU food information council, has taken the opportunity to answer this question by producing the video that you can see at the top of this post. The video explains the science behind the balance that exists between the energy getting into the body when we eat and the energy that is consumed through physical activity. Practical examples are also given of habits that can be incorporated into everyone’s lifestyle in order to reach a healthy balance between energy intake and energy expenditure. Other useful tips, expressed in a way that is easy to understand by consumers, can be found on the EUFIC website.

I am glad to share these educational tools with the readers of my blog. Feel free to use the comment box below for questions and comments about the energy balance.

Tagged under: energy balance, energy expenditure, energy intake, food energy, overweight
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About Gianluca Tognon

Gianluca Tognon is an Italian nutrition coach, speaker, entrepreneur and former associate professor at the University of Gothenburg. He started his career as a biologist and spent 15 years working both in Italy and then in Sweden. He has been involved in several EU research projects and has extensively worked and published on the association between diet, longevity and cardiovascular risk across the lifespan, also studying potential interactions between diet and genes. His work about the Mediterranean diet in Sweden has been cited by many newspapers worldwide including the Washington Post and The Telegraph among others. As a speaker, he has been invited by Harvard University and the Italian multi-national food company Barilla.

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