[One Day 10,000 Steps One Day 1,000 Characters] Three Meals a Day, Surprising Calories Revealed by Geonbo Gongdan

The reason it is difficult to lose weight despite exercising hard is due to eating habits. If breakfast is kimbap, lunch is kimchi jjigae, dinner is grilled samgyeopsal, and there are no snacks, how many calories would be consumed in a day?

The National Health Insurance Service’s app service, ‘The Health Insurance,’ allows users to record meal menus and check nutritional information such as calories. The NHIS collaborated with the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute to update the meal recording content by applying the ‘Integrated Food Nutrition Database.’ The updated meal recording content expanded the number of foods from the previous 4,102 items to 44,153 items by applying the Integrated Food Nutrition Database, enabling users to record a wider variety of foods. ○ Additionally, the previously provided five nutritional components (carbohydrates, protein, fat, sodium, calories) were expanded to nine by adding four more (sugars, cholesterol, saturated fatty acids, trans fatty acids).

In fact, I tried using the app. When searching for kimbap for breakfast, 78 search results appear. Plain kimbap is 322 kcal, kimchi kimbap is 371 kcal, tuna kimbap is 456 kcal, cheese kimbap is 476 kcal, and so on. Searching for the lunch menu, kimchi jjigae, yields 107 results with various calorie counts. Kimchi jjigae with pork is 212 kcal, which is lower than expected. Clicking on ‘View Information’ shows details such as carbohydrates, protein, fat, sodium, sugars, and cholesterol. Searching for grilled samgyeopsal for dinner shows 933 kcal per 200g. Adding a bowl of rice (347 kcal) roughly exceeds the recommended daily calorie intake for an adult male (2300 kcal), but this excludes other items such as snacks, side dishes, alcoholic beverages, and desserts.

Jung Ki-seok, President of the National Health Insurance Service (left), and Sung Chang-hoon, President of the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation, are signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on December 1 to expand the usage of points for the "Healthy Living Practice Support Fund."
[Photo by National Health Insurance Service]

When meals are recorded in the app, it analyzes how much of the five food groups (grains, meat/fish/eggs/legumes, vegetables, fruits, dairy products) have been consumed, allowing for daily meal evaluation according to guidelines. The NHIS plans to continuously update and apply the Integrated Food Nutrition Database to the app service.

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