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Calorie Calculator (Find your daily caloric budget)

DietDetective.com Calorie Calculator shows you how many calories you burn in a day. The tool factors in a your gender, age, height, weight, and physical activity level to figure out how many calories you need to eat in a day— without gaining weight or losing weight. It also figures how many calories you would need to reduce your daily intake by in order to lose weight—at three different rates (a pound per week, ½ pound per week, or a pound per month). For instance, if the tool determined that your caloric budget were

1800 calories, you would have to reduce your daily caloric intake to 1550 calories to lose ½ pound per week.

Burn Rate Calculator

DietDetective.com Burn Rate Calculator shows you how long it will take to burn off calories from your favorite foods, in terms of activity. This helps determine whether a particular food is splurgeworthy or not. For example, if you knew that it would take 18 minutes of walking to burn off an oreo cookie, would you eat more than one?

Activity Calculator

This shows just how many calories you burn doing hundreds of activities. How many calories does your favorite exercise burn off? Does taking the dog out for a walk burn calories? What about cleaning or gardening? or even playing with the kids?

Target Heart Rate Calculator (Basic and Advanced)

Wanna know if your workout is working you hard enough?  Or perhaps all that huffing and puffing has you concerned that you are working too hard?  Use this calculator to figure out what your target heart rate zone is, for three different levels of physical activity (Light, Moderate, and Vigorous). 

BMI Calculator

Want to know where you stand, weight wise?  One easy and reliable way to figure this out is by calculating your Body Mass Index, or BMI.  This calculator will show you your exact BMI, your BMI category, and what health risk rating goes along with your BMI number.

Food Search (all nutrients)

DietDetective.com Food Search, At Your Service!
Ever wondered how many calories are in your favorite food? How many grams of of fat or fiber are in pizza? Do nachos have any redeeming qualities? Well look no further...the DietDetective.com Food Search is just what you need. In addition to complete nutritional information for thousands foods, the tool also provides Exercise Equivalents, Calorie Density Ratings, and Net Carbohydrate Ratings for each food. Whenever you need it, you can find the Food Search on our homepage--it's the latest addition to our Healthy Living Tools. So come on...see how long you'd have to run, dance, or clean your house to burn off Happy Hour, or that hot fudge sundae!

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