Nutritional Standards Calories- Energy Consumption

Calories - is the amount of heat released by a person as a result of absorption of a particular product. The number of calories needed to man depends on the work performed, from physical activity, sex, age, on the latitude (cold or hot climates).

Group 1 - employees mostly mental work
 Age       Kcal
18-29     2450
30-39     2300
40-59     2100

managers of enterprises and organizations, engineering and technical workers, whose work does not require significant physical activity, medical professionals, except physicians, surgeons, nurses, nurses, teachers, tutors, other than sports, workers of science, literature, press, cultural and educational workers, workers planning and accounting, secretaries and clerks, workers of different categories, whose work is associated with considerable nervous tension (workers remotes, controllers, etc.).

Group 2 - workers engaged in light physical work:
 Age       Kcal
18-29     2800
30-39     2650
40-59     2500

engineering and technical workers, whose work is associated with some physical effort, workers employed in automated processes; workers electronics industry; clothing makers intend, agronomists, livestock specialists, veterinarians, nurses, nurse, sales of manufactured goods, service workers, employees of the watch industry, workers Communication and Telegraph, instructors and teachers of physical education and sports coaches.

Group 3 - the workers average severity of labor:
 Age       Kcal
18-29     3300
30-39     3150
40-59     2950

machine operators (employed in metal and wood), mechanics, engineers, wizards, doctors, surgeons, chemists, textile workers, shoemakers, drivers of different types of transport, food industry workers, employees of public utilities and catering, food vendors, tractor brigade and field-teams, railroad, water transport workers, workers in auto and electric; engineers handling equipment, printers.

Group 4 - workers of heavy physical labor:
Age       Kcal 
18-29     3850
30-39     3600
40-59     3400

construction workers, the majority of agricultural workers and machine operators, miners at surface operations; employees of the oil and gas industry, metallurgy and casters, except those belonging to Group 5; workers in the pulp and paper industry and wood processing industries; slingers, riggers, carpenters, workers in industry building materials, except those assigned to Group 5.

Group 5 - workers engaged in particularly severe difficulty:
Age       Kcal 
18-29     4200
30-39     3950
40-59     3750

miners employed directly in underground work, steelmakers, fellers wood and working in cutting wood, stone masons, concrete workers, excavators, loaders, whose work is not mechanized; workers employed in the manufacture of building materials, whose work is not mechanized.


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