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Have you ever tracked your calories?  Maybe you tracked your calories for fitness or just for fun.  Maybe you’ve never tracked your calories, but you know what calories are.  In short, we measure food by calories.  Calories are just energy.  Food is energy we consume to survive and perform.

Here is a hilarious way to look at calories.

Let’s imagine an average male.

From age 0-18 this male consumes on average 1,650cals; from 18-60 2,800cals; and 2,500cals from 60 until 74 when his time is up. (74 years because that’s about the average lifespan of a male in the west)

This means that he will have eaten roughly about 70 million calories in his lifetime.  Below is the boring math.

Calories consumed until 18yrs old:

(365days)x(18years)x(1,650calories) = 10,840,500 calories

Calories consumed from 18yrs old  to 60yrs old:

365x42x2,800 = 42,924,000 calories

Calories consumed from 60yrs old to 74yrs old:

365x14x2,500 = 12,775,000 calories

Total lifetime calories consumed would be:

66,539,500

Let’s round it up to 70,000,000 just for fun!  This means his average daily intake from birth to death would be 2,591.63 calories.

Now imagine that the world was a simple place and everyone was the same.  Since everyone is the same, we all have the same bodies that function exactly the same.  If we all function the same, we would have about 70 million calories or energy to take advantage of in our lifetime to make it to 74 years as an average male. (Imagine at birth you are given $70,000,000 and need $2,591.63/day to make it to 74yrs ignoring ALL other factors)  So if we follow the math above we would live to be 74 years old.  What if we could eat(spend) less or more and that would affect our lifespan?  Crazy if it worked as simple as that, but if it did and we decided to eat more/less we would live longer or shorter.  Using this math, let’s say someone decides to eat 3,500 calories per day.  Ignoring ALL other factors besides calorie intake and allotted calories, this person would only live to be 55 years old.  The math is below:

(70,000,000 total allotted calories)/(3,500 per day)/(365 days in a year) = 54.79 rounded up to 55 years.

What if this male only used 2,000 calories per day?

70,000,000/2,000/365 = 95.89 rounded up to 96.

There is a tad bit of truth in this.

Am I the only one who has these extra random thoughts?!

Afterthought: calories are energy, what if our bodies were only able to handle a fixed amount of energy and we had a choice to use as much or as little as we want (of course lifestyle has a lot to do with it).  And what if we could do certain things to increase our body’s strength and extend its capability to handle more overall energy (it’s a little bit true right? like fitness helps you be healthier and potentially live longer)?!  I think it’s a pretty cool way to look at it!