• Calories are needed to drive your car, cook your food and move your body.
• 3500 calories = Gaining one pound of weight
• Low-calorie diets may cause health problems.
• The calorie is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by 1 ° C (1.8F).
• The Hindu cuisine is the richest in calories. It intensively uses both vegetable and seed oils and melted butter.
• 100 kcal are provided by: one banana, 8 tablespoonful of beans, two green apples, 340 ml of lager beer, 1/5 of a Big Mac hamburger, 17 peanuts, 300 ml of whole milk or 9 chips.
• We should eat 30% of calories for breakfast, 40% for lunch and 20 % for dinner.
• A diet with less than 1000 kcal a day causes many diseases, including cardiovascular disorders.
• 100 extra kcal a day is responsible for up to ten excessive pounds a year.
• 1 gram of fat contains 9 kcal. 1 gram of protein and 1 gram of carbohydrates contain 4 kcal each.
• Low-calorie sweeteners (sometimes referred to as non-nutritive sweeteners, artificial sweeteners or sugar substitutes) are ingredients added to food to provide sweetness without adding a significant amount of calories. In fact, they can also play an important role in a weight management program that includes both good nutrition choices and physical activity.
• Did you know that most foods labeled as “sugar free” or “low-carb” actually contain artificial sweeteners, sugar alcohols, and other additives that create a hormonal mess inside your body, actually stimulating your body to STORE more belly fat and stimulate cravings! And foods labeled “whole grain” only has to contain a small fraction of whole grains where the majority can still be refined starches and sugars that spike your blood sugar faster than a sugar-laden soda!
• Low-calorie sweeteners do not increase the risk of cancer. Studies show that low-calorie sweeteners do not cause cancer. A recent epidemiological study by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) showed that aspartame use is not associated with any increased risk of cancer, even among individuals who have high aspartame intakes.
• Did you know that supplements like the bogus fat burner pills aren’t even regulated in the US to assure that there’s even any active ingredient at all in the pills?
• 30 minutes of active sex burns 350 of kcal as well a 40 minutes long morning jogging.
• A healthy adult should have 35 kcal per one kg of weight a day to get enough energy without getting excess weight.
• Did You Know there are 3500 Calories in a Pound of Fat?
• did you know that low fat muffin has 400 calories? Or that restaurant appetizer packs 3,000?
• Did you know that a Caesar salad can contain more calories than a small hamburger?
• If you go back to eating the same number of calorie you used to before you lost weight, you’ll gain weight and eventually end up weighing what you did before!
• Did you know that licking envelopes can gain you 40 calories?
