Sentences with phrase «than its calorie equivalent»

A 2011 Diabetic Medicine study found that a six month long vegetarian diet was more effective at blasting belly fat in diabetic volunteers than a calorie equivalent non-vegetarian diet.

Eating an 8 oz steak will keep you fuller for longer than its calorie equivalent in bread.

Not exact matches

Nuts were less than 1 % of calories (the equivalent of 1/10 of an ounce a day) Oil was less than 2 % of calories (which is about 1 tsp a day) and sugars were less than 1 % of calories (less than a tsp a day)

Polar bears living on sea ice need to eat more than 12,000 calories per day, the team found, which translates to at least one adult ringed seal — or the equivalent of nearly 220 Big Macs — every 10 to 12 days.

To fuel this biochemical fire you must eat nearly 50 times more frequently than a boa constrictor of equivalent size, and consume up to 30 times more calories overall.

Placing exercise equivalents beside items on restaurant menus made people less likely to overeat than simply listing calories (which had no impact on order size or type).

One study found that people who consume a high - protein diet can burn up to 300 more calories per day than people who consume a low - protein diet, which is the equivalent to one hour of moderate - intensity exercise per day.

One pound is equivalent to 3,500 calories, so to lose 2 pounds a month, Christine would have had to cut more than 230 calories out of her diet each day, or burn that off through exercise.

The most recent U.S. dietary guidelines recommend Americans get less than 10 % of their daily calories from added sugars — which is roughly the equivalent of a 16 - ounce soda.

In turn, killer whales that feed on seals consume the equivalent of five tons of plankton for each pound of their body weight.12 This phenomenon would explain why Weston Price found seal oil, which he estimated to constitute 200 calories per day of the Inuit diet, to be several times higher in the fat - soluble vitamins than ordinary cod liver oil.30

If you're consuming about 1,800 calories a day, you'd be taking in 180 totally empty calories from added sugar, the equivalent of a little more than 11 tsp., with the blessing of our government.

These effects were equivalent, and in some instances stronger, than telling people to cut 500 calories from their daily diet.

«Unfortunately, the energy balance equation [you know, calories in have to equal calories out] suggests that energy intake and energy expenditure occupy equivalent roles in determining energy balance, when in fact the factors governing energy intakes influence the energy balance far more powerfully than the factors determining resting energy expenditure.»

The equivalent in beef would would have 26grams of protein but with tofu having less than a third of the calories than beef it is a nutritious alternative to other protein foods.

So here's some good news... Black coffee has less than 5 calories per cup, so if you need to sneak in a cup here and there, just cut out the equivalent calories elsewhere.

1) Organic Curly Kale: An ultra low calorie leafy base at just 76 cals for a filling 100g, are low in saturated fat and cholesterol, are a fantastic source of iron (crucial to aid liver function and promote cell regeneration), and are packed with more than you find in the equivalent weight of beef!

This last aspect of the wheat belly diet (predicted calorie reduction) makes sense to us, given the fact that 6 ounces of wheat flour contain more than 400 calories, and the average U.S. adult consumes the equivalent of 6 ounces of wheat flour per day.

Of these, losses on the farm, at storage and handling account for more than 520 million tonnes, equivalent to nearly 8 percent of all food calories produced.

Apparently a food calorie often uses more fossil fuel than the equivalent electric energy needed to power you the same distance on a bike — partly because you need more energy to go one miles due to inefficiencies in your body getting motive force out of the calories than an electric system does, even if you take into account the generation and transportation losses of the electrical power.