Nutrition, Food Science and Technology

Diet and Weight Management

There are many factors that involve a person's weight, including diet, physical activity, genetics, medications, and illnesses. Each of these factors influences weight in different ways, but health professionals most often stress the attention of diet and physical activity above all other factors because they can be affected by strategic behavior modification. The science behind weight administration is crucial, but one of the key concepts that help in weight management is Energy Balance. Energy Balance is the idiom used to describe the difference between the number of calories a person consumes and the number of calories that the same person uses up in a given time period.