Sentences with phrase «half of calorie»

«As you add muscle, the amount of calories you burn throughout the day increases,» he says.

It's present in about one - third of the calories the average US or European person consumes.

Researchers, led by Helen Pilcher, PhD, formerly of London's Institute of Psychiatry, looked into the number of calories burned by intense laughing and compared it to the calorie burn of other daily activities (strength training, running, even vacuuming).

When attempting to lose weight, many people cut out meals in the hope that it will decrease the number of calories they take in.

Instead, portion out a single serving size on a plate or in a bowl to help control the number of calories you are consuming.

Endomondo has a strong presence in Europe, with 20 million registered users, while MyFitnessPal has 80 million users of its calorie counting and nutrition app.

Yet while Peters» concept of calories has managed to stick around for 100 years, few have heard her name.

The current system of calorie counting on which our nutrition labels are based «provides only an estimate of the energy content of foods,» Malden C. Nesheim, a professor of nutrition at Cornell University, said at a 2013 meeting of the international nonprofit Institute for Food Technologists.

Atwater — who actually wanted to use his work in the 1890s to help poor people get the most calories for their money — determined the average number of calories in four main energy sources: carbs, fats, protein, and alcohol.

It may have sounded like a noble goal at first, but Peters had taken the idea of calorie counting too far.

Let's say that at lunchtime you're given two options with the exact same number of calories.

Other factors that scientists are just beginning to understand also influence the number of calories we actually get from food.

Many of those calories are flat - out wasted, but a good chunk of the down conversion comes from the process turning corn and soy into animal protein.

Earlier studies have suggested the effects of calorie - labeling at fast - food restaurants are minor at best, but there was a hope that the long - term impact would be more substantial.

«At the end of the day,» he says, «what you're trying to do is take sunlight and produce the most amount of calories and nutrients possible for that acre of land.»

What's more, between 2008 and 2013 - 2014 the average number of calories purchased increased for diners in both New York City and New Jersey.

Eating fewer, larger meals means that those meals can contain lots of calories giving me the flexibility to enjoy foods typically not associated with dieting e.g. bread, cereal, frozen yoghurt / ice cream, pasta etc..

A new study, conducted by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center, serves up the grim conclusion that calorie labels, on their own, do not reduce the overall number of calories ordered.

Despite this, the average number of calories per order remained the same.

You can use an exercise calculator (here's one I like) to estimate the number of calories you burn from a wide variety of exercises.

• A healthy meal plan can be the same amount of calories as an unhealthy meal plan.

Buffett said that the vast majority of the calories in Coke come from sugar, which Buffett called «the white powder.»

Nutritionally, most of these calories come from complex carbohydrates (like vegetables), healthy fats (olive oil), and plant - based protein (from nuts).

Why I like it: This has the benefits of regular oats, but with 50 percent more fiber and thus more volume for the same amount of calories.

I'll constantly be sensed for my biomedical chemistries — I walk into a restaurant and I'm being fed the amount of calories and the vitamins I need to consume that day.

One dietician agrees with the company's reluctance to post calorie data on its menu boards: «If you tell some of my clients that there are x-number of calories in a Big Mac, they just translate that into the number of minutes they need to exercise to work it off.»

Before 2005, when Hamilton first left the U.S. for a posting in Sydney, American consumers considered the amount of calories and fat in a product as the ultimate measure of its healthiness.

Six years after New York City's mandate that calories be listed at chain restaurants, researchers have found that these labels, on their own, do not reduce the overall number of calories ordered.

Here's the list of the countries that eat the most fat, ranked by the amount of calories they get from fat:

If you do a lot of exercises or workouts that require you to sit and lay down, you have to know that you're not burning a lot of calories, right?

Enlightened has the same number of calories per serving as Halo Top (60 calories in a half - cup serving), and about the same amount of protein (Enlightened has six grams, Halo Top has five).

McDonald's, «bowing to pressure from health advocates and parents,» has promised to reduce the amount of calories in its Kid's Meals, The New York Times reported yesterday.

Using previously published systems for estimating the physical intensity of different jobs, they calculated the number of calories burned by the American workforce in different eras.

Currently the FDA claims that the term healthy may be used only for products with 1 gram or less of saturated fat per 40 grams, and no more than 15 percent of calories from saturated fat.

By comparison, Americans, on average, get about 50 % of their calories from carbs, 15 % from protein, and 30 % from fat, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That's not all, either; the group is working with other brands to decrease the number of calories consumed from beverages in the marketplace by 20 % by 2025 (here is a great resource for that initiative).

The second group (normal diet) consumed their energy needs divided into 3 meals: 8 a.m., 1 p.m., and 8 p.m.. Both groups consumed the same amount of calories and % of macronutrients.

Carb consumption should be restricted whereas meat and fibrous veggies make up the bulk of the calories eaten on rest days.

They minimize the effort required to attain a given number of calories or, alternatively, maximize the amount of calories obtained from a given amount of effort.

Personal Wellness Track Your wearable device can keep track of the calories you consume, your racing pulse as you run, the steps you take in any given hour.

By some estimates, 30 % of the calories consumed globally by humans come from meat products, including beef, chicken, and pork.

Google says it's too hard to prove that the M&M experiment directly led to a svelter staff or whether employees felt happier just because they were eating less of the calorie - packed snack.

«Although I don't subscribe to fasting or suggest going more than three or four waking hours without food, my diet has evolved into one in which I consume most of my calories during the day.

Our new lineup of lower - sodium soups contains a maximum of 250 calories per serving, where 15 % of calories (or less) are from fat.

How about a sparkling wine that is a third of the calories but no less pleasing to the taste buds?

just because i exercise daily and eat the required daily intake of calories based on that fact, doesn't mean you have to.

The calories in the meat produced are around a tenth of the calories available for direct consumption in the grain.

A young attendee had asked Joaquín whether he posted the number of calories per cocktail on his menus.

Roulac wants to expand what he calls more of a rainbow diet, as he says most people get the majority of their calories from a small amount of food sources — many of which are not highly nutritious or sustainable.

I didn't feel full in a uncomfortable way but I can imagine there were a lot of calories in one serving.