Date: 2025-07-08 Page is: DBtxt003.php txt00007698
HUMAN HEALTH
CALORIE NEEDS PER DAY
Estimated Calorie Needs per Day by Age, Gender and Physical Activity Level.
CALORIE NEEDS PER DAY
Estimated Calorie Needs per Day by Age, Gender and Physical Activity Level.
Open PDF ... Table of estimated calorie needs per day
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
I archived this table many years ago, but when I came across it again recently it confirmed my thinking related to other aspects of our human behavior.
Specifically, I am bothered by the idea that an 'average' of GDP per Capita for a whole society has much meaning as a measure of progress and quality of life because almost everything changes in relative importance as one's age changes!
This was an issue being discussed when I studied economics at Cambridge in the late 50s early 60s but economists have continue to publish GDP information as an aggregate for the whole of society without much meaningful explanation. This is no accident. There must be a rational explanation for this ... and I am convinced that the explanation is that this is the best available support for much of the stupidity that is the norm in the modern economy.
I am now well into my 80s ... living 'on borrowed time', and enjoying my good fortune and fascinated by the huge changes that have taken place in my lifetime. But not so much enjoying the greed and stupidity of some of the world's leaders who seem to have the brains of neanderthals!
Peter Burgess