Food is the set of actions through which the essential foods for the expenditure of energy of the organism are provided. Speaking of energy and calories we explain what the famous basal energy is.
Basal energy and colors
Basal energy is the total calories needed by the body to maintain its basal metabolism, understanding as such the set of minimum activities aimed at the proper functioning of the human body.
It is, therefore, the minimum energy necessary for the maintenance of the metabolic functions of all the cells of the organism: heartbeat, formation of juices and hormones, cell turnover, etc. In children it also includes the energy cost of growth.
It is measured at complete physical and psychological rest, fasting twelve hours and at an ambient temperature of twenty degrees.