Cellular Respiration. The term cellular respiration refers to the biochemical pathway by which cells release energy from the chemical bonds of food molecules and provide that energy for the essential processes of life.All living cells must carry out cellular respiration.t can be aerobic respiration in the presence of oxygen or anaerobic respiration. Prokaryotic cells carry out cellular respiration within the cytoplasm or on the inner surfaces of the cells. More emphasis here will be placed on eukaryotic cells where the mitochondria are the site of most of the reactions.
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute notes that while inactive, overweight women usually need 1,000 to 1,200 calories daily for weight loss, active, overweight women and women weighing more than 164 pounds usually require 1,200 to 1,600 calories each day.
Take your current weight and multiply by an average metabolic factor to tell you approximately how many calories you burn per day at rest. In our weight loss program, we use a metabolic factor of 11 for women and 12 for men. For example, a 160 lb. woman could theoretically eat: 160 x 11 = 1,760 calories per day to maintain that 160 lb. weight. Note that this does not factor in calories that you might burn through physical activity, so any calories burned through exercise get added to the âcalorie budget,â so to speak.