Calorie

Question: What is a Calorie and what does it have to do with gaining fat? You always hear health people saying to watch your calories or look how many calories this has and stuff like that. Also stuff like when exercising you have to burn so and so calories. What is a calorie? Is it a sugar or a fat? does it turn into fat? are calories bad for you? aren't calories what gives you strength and energy? what do you know about calories? if your body is a car, aren't calories the fuel? why would calories be bad for you? why would it make you gain weight? are calories good for you?

Answer: A calorie is a unit of measurement of the amount of energy that you get from the food that you eat. If the number of calories that you eat each day is equal to the number of calories that your body burns each day your weight will stay the same. If you eat a lot of food, and therefore a lot of calories, and you don't burn them off you will gain weight. Calories themselves aren't good or bad, the sources of them are (eating a healthy meal vs. eating a fried super value meal from a fast food restaurant). I hope this helps!

Question: How would the amount of calories in a food change based on a 1800 calorie diet? Nutrition labels on foods usually say that the values listed are based on a 2000 calorie diet. How does the number of calories change for a 1800 calorie diet?

Answer: they wouldn't

Question: What is the average calorie content of a healthy diet meal? I want to lose five to ten pounds. I know the calories i eat should be less than what i burn off, but generally how many calories are in an average low-calorie meal?

Answer: 200...NOT FOR SURE

Question: What low calorie foods can be roasted over a campfire on a stick? I will be taking my children camping this summer. I have lost over 50 pounds on a calorie reduced diet over the past five months (89 pounds over the past year). I am looking for some "treat" ideas that can be roasted over a campfire besides marshmallows and hotdogs. They would ideally be less than 200 calories and not overly sweet. The only thing I can come up with is chicken skewers with vegetables. Any other ideas?

Answer: Fruit. When you put fruit like bananas and pineapples of very high heat, the natural sugars caramelize in the fruit and make it much sweeter. It almost tastes like your cheating on your diet. Look up some recipes for it online.

Question: How are the products of calorie burning excreted from the body? What exactly happens to the calories that you burn off that results in weight loss? How are the products of calorie burning excreted from the body? The mass of the reactants + products would remain the same, so the body would need to get rid of the products some how. How does the body get rid of the products of calorie burning? Thanks.

Answer: There are two main products of metabolism, water and carbon dioxide. Most of these two products is exhaled, but some is also removed in the urine.

Question: Calorie wise is there a difference between regular ginger and ginger paste? I've tried looking on Calorie King and a few other websites for the brand name of the paste, but no luck there.

Answer: There shouldn't be if the paste is just pure ginger paste. But sometimes they have a little something else added to it, like vegetabla oil or something, then there might be a difference. But again, the difference will be really insignificant.

Question: Can you burn off food calorie for calorie by exercising? If you indulge in a high-calorie snack, can the calories be burned off calorie for calorie? In other words, if you eat a chocolate cake worth 350 calories, can you counteract it by burning the same 350 calories doing specific exercise? If not, how do you get rid of those 350 cals from the cake?

Answer: Usually on treadmills, they calculate how much you're burning off as you're running and it's shown on a screen at the front, but it depends on the treadmill really. It's usually rounded off to 10 calories though because it's hard to calculate burning of a single calorie. Try: http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc ( =

Question: How can I get an accurate calorie useage count for this exercise? I'm on this weight loss program where I'm supposed to be increasing and monitoring my calorie intake and outputs... Anyhow, part of the program involves increasing my physcial activity and I've noticed that I have a tough time getting to the gym... What about sex? I'm much more motivated to have sex. Is it a good workout? I mean, I sometimes see this generic number of calories that is supposedly used in sex, but it really doesn't account for variance in intensity and time. How can I get an accurate count of the calories used for my weight loss program?

Answer: A very helpful tool in loosing weight or training for a sport event is a heart rate monitor. There a very different heart rate monitors, with very different prices, some top over 300 dollars, while others are about 25. It depends on what you need it for, I think a good heart rate monitor that tells you how many calories you burn is the right choice for you. There are some that you have to strap around the waist, while others just come as a watch. That's what I would do to see exactly how many calories I burned during sex, as a matter of fact, that's not such a bad idea.

Question: How low a calorie intake as a male can you have before it get dangerous? I workout a lot running and sit ups, and my calorie intake is quit low i think of around one thousand four hundred calories. How low can you go before it affects you to much? Just need some views thanks.

Answer: well this really depends on your current weight and height and then you need to filter into it what you do in a day. For example, if you are very active, your body would need more calories to keep it moving and not eat at the muscles. If you do not eat enough then your body shuts down, its not dangerouse at first, but is pretty stupid as your body then starts to eat away at the muscles- this is because the muscles in your body require the greatest amount of energy to keep themselves going- its like a cash flow problem- your body is simply trying to economise when its shut down, and muscles are costing it too much, so it uses them for fuel. What it also does, is anything you do eat, is then being stored as fat and not being burnt as energy- your body is working backwards- storeing energy and burning muscle- its trying to survive, it does not want you to lose weight if it fears there is a famine. Your best bet on finding out your calorie amount (dependant on your age and current weight and current activity level) is best workd out by a professional at a gym or your doctor or a dietition. If your trying to lose weight, the best advise is to find out first how much you need to eat to keep yourself alive- do this either via a medic or writing out a diary for food every day for a week, checking that your weight remains the same throughout the whole week. Next step, reduce this by no more the 300kcals per day. If you do more, you risk starvation, you could possibly get away with 500 but I wouldn't want to risk it- its too sudden, and you can always reduce more at a later date once your weight has plateued (which it will). Eat little and often, excercise no more then 5 times a week- but it is ok to walk every day, if your muscles do not recover- take it from me (personal experience) the muscles simply stop working, and other muscles take over. Fine you may think, an entirely new body from just one excercise, right? well, eh, no. You see, when the other muscle slows down or stops, fat can gather over the muscle that is not working. So make sure you rest, flabby muscles and excess weight on muscles is not the look your going to I presume. I don't know your age or weight so cannot advise you. Your doctor can.

Question: What is the calorie content of a typical sushi roll? I would like to know if anyone might know the calorie content of a speciality sushi roll? I'm curious about your average 8 piece specialty roll that you'd order at the sushi bar - as opposed to tuna/cream cheese maki. I'm pretty good at calculating calories, but I can't seem to figure these out. I know all rolls will be a little different, so an average or range would be great. Thanks all!

Answer: Rolls can vary greatly depending on fillings and the methodology of the itamae (sushi chef). Here are a couple of common rolls. Baseline calories in an entire roll: California Roll 255 Calories Kappa Maki (cucumber roll) 136 Calories Spicy Tuna Roll 290 Calories If you want a greatly expanded list of information on more rolls and sushi items, as well as carbs, grams of fat, protein, etc, you should check out: http://www.sushifaq.com/sushi-calories.htm

Question: What is a fat calorie? How many should I eat a day if I want to lose weight? I know about calories and counting them, I want to lose weight, but I don't know what a fat calorie is.

Answer: Foods have fat calories. Today's foods are packaged with the percentages marked on the box. Example: 100 calories. 45 fat calories. A good rule of thumb is: keep the fat calories less than 1/3 of the total calories. This is good for controlling weight and cholesterol levels.

Question: What is a low calorie alternative to flour in cooking? I've heard of coconut flour, but I looked it up and it has the same amount of calories! Are the health benefits worth the money (for coconut flour)? Or are there healthier alternatives that are also lower calorie? Thank you!

Answer: I have heard of blend of flour which is low in calorie but high in nutritional value consisting of oatmeal,jowar,bajra,bran of rice etc.

Question: How do I work out my hourly calorie consumption from this data? I know, for example, that I burn 77 calories doing a certain activity for 15 minutes. Therefore it is easy to work out what that is for an hourly rate - I just multiply 77 by four. But what if I do the same activity but at a different intensity - perhaps I'm more tired the second time, and don't work as hard, what then? How could I calculate the hourly rate if the calories burned in 18 minutes were 114? Assume I'm using a calorie-burned wrist watch device. Thanks.

Answer: divide the calories by the number of minutes (114 divided by 18 is 6.34) this will give you the number of calories you have burned in one minute. Then multiply the answer by 60 - this will give you the hourly rate.

Question: Is there any difference between eating a high calorie item at one meal, or spreading the calories out? Say you were going to eat a high calorie candy bar or snack. Would it make any difference if you ate the whole thing at one time, or if you nibbled on it and spread the calories out through the day?

Answer: well, if you spread it out throughout the entire day, you're less likely to have a second

Question: How is the calorie content of food calculated? How does the food industry decide/calculate/dream up what is the calorie content of foods as displayed on packaging. What is the technical process by which calories are found and measured? Is my wife's principle correct that if you tap a digestive biscuit (65 calories) on the table, the calories are shaken out like weevils!

Answer: A calorie is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree Centigrade. The calorie measure used commonly to discuss the energy content of food is actually a kilocalorie or 1000 real calories. This is the amount of energy required to raise 1 kilogram of water (about 2.2 pounds) 1 degree Centigrade. The particular food being measured must be burned in a calorimeter, so that the heat released from the food can be accurately measured. This amount is used to ascertain the G.E.V. of the specified food. This number is then multiplied by, usually, 85%; which represents the loss happening during human digestion. Portion control will reduce the calories, though I doubt tapping a biscuit reduces it by much. :)

Question: Can calorie count be transfered or deducted to the next day? Hi, lets say today i ate 2500 calorie and my limit is 2000 calorie a day, can i eat 1500 calorie tomorrow to balance or deduct yesterday's intake? Thanks in advance.

Answer: basically yes... 3500 calories = 1 lb.. so if one day you over eat and consume 300 more calories than you burn but the next day you work out and eat less so you end up eating 300 less calories than you burn you will equal out... but if you dont equal out and keep eating more then you burn you will gain.. and vise versa if you burn more than you eat you will loose weight