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.
Subtract 200 from that figure. It sucks, but itâs true: As you get older, your metabolism slows a bit, and your system requires fewer calories to function. Now you know how many calories you need to maintain your current weight. If youâre trying to downsize, just delete 500 from that number. Consuming 500 fewer calories per day gives you a deficit of 3,500 calories a week, which equals about one pound, says Kohn. Losing a pound a week is the safest way to diet because it doesnât lead to deprivation or nutritional deficiencies, she adds.