The United States was able to play a secondary, but significant, role in suppressing the Boxer Rebellion because of the large number of American ships and troops deployed in the Philippines as a result of the U.S. conquest of the islands during the Spanish American War (1898) and the subsequent Philippine-American War.
When you're on a low-calorie diet, you usually get between 800 and 1,500 calories a day. For some people, an alternative for short-term weight loss is a very low-calorie diet. Many very low-calorie diets are commercially-made formulas of 800 calories or fewer that replace all the food you usually eat.
How many calories should you eat daily for weight loss? To find out your daily calorie requirements, you can use the Mifflin-St Jeor equation. It is actually the most accurate formula that calculates the number of calories you should eat in a day to maintain the Basal Metabolic Rate (energy needed to maintain body temperature and vital functions of our body), depending on age, sex, body weight, and height.