Most everyone looks at your current body weight, your physical activity, your age, and your gender. There are established guidelines for combining each value from each category, and then being able to configure your needs. It’s amazing that this much effort has been given to calorie and food intake alone. Could you imagine the possibilities if as much time was dedicated to deterring vitamin and mineral values as well, and then working with each person to accomplish these levels.Since obesity is marching aggressively to the front of the “current epidemics” line, we should take a moment to address the number one cause of obesity. It isn’t the improper functioning of the thyroid gland, or any other system in the body. It is our problem of overeating. We simply eat too much. In the area of medical inventions, an arm band has been created that can tell you your caloric burn, through every daily activity. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to take that one step further, and be able to distinguish caloric intake, caloric burn, how many calories you actually need, and how many you have left to consume.