The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did.
If you donât take in enough calories every day, you may not be as fast and as strong as you could be, and may even break down rather than build up your muscles. 1  Donât skip meals. It is too hard to make up the lost food later.  Add a healthy snack between breakfast and lunch, lunch and dinner, and right before bed.
And, the starting point for figuring out exactly how many calories you need to eat per day revolves around something called your calorie maintenance level. Your calorie maintenance level is where your body is at when you consume and burn the same number of calories.