What’s on the Energy Balance poster
A 4-row table: Component · Share · What it is.
Approximate share of total daily energy expenditure.
- BMR — 60–70% — Basic function at complete rest
- NEAT — 15–30% — Fidgeting, walking, all non-exercise movement
- Thermic effect of food — ~10% — Digesting and absorbing
- Exercise — 5–15% — Deliberate activity
NEAT varies enormously between people and adjusts downward when intake drops — which is part of why weight loss slows.
Questions about the Energy Balance poster
- What’s on the Energy Balance poster?
- A 4-row table: Component · Share · What it is. Approximate share of total daily energy expenditure. BMR — 60–70% — Basic function at complete rest; NEAT — 15–30% — Fidgeting, walking, all non-exercise movement; Thermic effect of food — ~10% — Digesting and absorbing; Exercise — 5–15% — Deliberate activity. NEAT varies enormously between people and adjusts downward when intake drops — which is part of why weight loss slows.
- Who is the Energy Balance poster for?
- Energy Balance belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning nutrition can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Energy Balance poster?
- Most of your energy goes on staying alive. Exercise is the smallest of the four components. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Energy Balance belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Energy Balance?
- Added Sugar, Alcohol Units and Caffeine sit alongside Energy Balance in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Added SugarAlcohol UnitsCaffeine
- Is the Energy Balance poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Energy Balance downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Energy Balance poster print at?
- Energy Balance is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Energy Balance loses nothing.Printing guide
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