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Determine Your True Age

Page 1 of 2 - Establishing your baseline expectancy

Food & Diet

Americans eat on average 1 serving of whole grains per day. A serving of whole grains is generally half a cup. Examples of a serving:
  • Whole wheat bread, 1 slice
  • Oats, half cup, cooked
  • Barley, half cup, cooked
  • Whole wheat pasta, half cup, cooked
  • Quinoa, half cup, cooked
wholegrains
Americans eat on average half a serving of legumes per day. A serving of legumes is generally half a cup. Examples of a serving:
  • Beans, cooked, ¼ cup
  • Lentils, cooked, ¼ cup
  • Chickpeas, cooked, ¼ cup
  • Black beans, cooked, ¼ cup
  • Hummus, 6 tablespoons
legumes
Americans eat on average 1 serving of nuts per day. A serving of nuts is generally half an ounce. Examples of a serving:
  • ½ ounce of nuts
  • 12 almonds
  • 24 pistachios
  • 7 walnut halves
Assorted nuts and seeds
Americans eat on average 0.7 serving of processed meat per day. A serving size of processed meat is 3 oz, or a cooked portion about the size of your palm. Examples of a serving:
  • Hot dog, 1 piece
  • Sausage, 1 piece
  • Pepperoni, 40 slices
  • Smoked turkey, 6 slices
processed-meat
Americans eat on average half a serving of red meat per day. A serving size of red meat is 3 oz, or a cooked portion about the size of your palm. Examples of a serving:
  • Steak, fillet
  • Minced meat, half cup
  • Burger patty
  • Meat balls, 3
red-meat
Americans eat on average 1 serving of eggs per day. A serving of eggs is generally one egg omelette. Examples of a serving:
  • Egg, 1 large
  • Egg whites, 1 ½
  • One egg omelette
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Americans eat on average half a serving of seafood per day. A serving size for seafood is 3 oz, or a cooked portion about the size of your palm. Examples of a serving:
  • Shrimp, 10 pieces
  • Fish, size of your palm
fish
A serving of a sugary beverage is one can or about 12 oz / 350ml. One serving has about 150 calories.

Physical Habits

Aerobic exercise is where your breathing intensity increases. It should be strenuous enough that you would have trouble singing but can still say short phrases. Examples:
  • Running
  • Jogging
  • Walking at a brisk pace
  • Calisthenics
  • Bicycling
  • Tennis
  • Soccer
Aerobic exercise
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is doing hard exercise for a minute or more interspersed with rest periods. It should be strenuous enough that it's difficult to say even short phrases. Examples:
  • Maximum speed bicycle sprints
  • 100% effort sprints
  • Jumping rope as fast as you can
  • Burpees as quickly as you can
sprint-fast
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis.
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Drip Coffee made by pouring boiling water through a perforated container holding ground coffee beans into a pot.
drip-coffee
A typical American walks under 5,000 steps a day. A half-hour walk is between 3,000 and 4,000 steps.
Woman walking
Time includes rest time between Strength Training exercises.

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