Calorie
hideThe calorie is a pre-SI metric unit of energy. The unit was first defined by Professor Nicolas Clément in 1824 as a unit of heat. This definition entered French and English dictionaries between 1841 and 1867. In most fields its use is archaic, having been replaced by the SI unit of energy, the joule. However, in many countries it remains in common use as a unit of food energy. In the context of nutrition, and especially food labelling, the terms calorie (or Calorie) and kilocalorie are interchangeable. In either case the unit is approximately equal to 4.2 kJ.
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News tagged with calories
Popcorn at the movies still an unhealthy treat
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study carried out in 1994 by advocacy group CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest) found that popcorn being sold by cinema chains in the US was high in saturated fat and calories, ...
Yes, that soda will make you fat
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While health officials have long suspected the link between obesity and soda consumption, research released today provides the first scientific evidence of the potent role soda and other sugar-sweetened ...
When eating and dieting, follow your gut
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Eating a small lunch doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be so hungry for dinner that you’ll eat more than usual, a new study suggests.
Drinking milk in the morning may help stave off lunchtime hunger
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Now there's a new reason for the weight-conscious to drink fat free milk at breakfast time, suggests a new study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers in Australia found that d ...
Every move you make: Free smart phone app helps you burn calories
May 18, 2009 |
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What can't the iPhone do? Now, thanks to a University of Houston professor, it can even count how many calories you've burned in a given day.
Sleep may keep you thin: studies
May 07, 2009 |
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The secret of staying thin could be at least partly down to a good night's rest, an international conference on obesity heard in Amsterdam on Thursday.
Joslin study identifies 'good' energy burning fat in lean adults
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have demonstrated that adult humans still have a type of "good" fat previously believed to be present only in babies and children. Unlike white fat, which stores energy and comprises ...
Student-designed device provides new way to track calorie burning
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Counting calories that burn through activity is a constant quandary. One can only run on a treadmill so long, watching intently as the pedometer reads out the number of calories melted during a session of exercise. Not to ...
Physical activity may not be key to obesity epidemic
Jan 06, 2009 |
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A recent international study fails to support the common belief that the number of calories burned in physical activity is a key factor in rising rates of obesity.
Cut energy use by eating better, study says
Aug 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How much energy we use to produce food could be cut in half if Americans ate less and ate local foods, wolfed down less meat, dairy and junk food, and used more traditional farming methods, says a new Cornell ...
Overeating can set stage for obesity, researchers say
Nov 27, 2009 |
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It doesn't seem like a fair fight. In one corner loomed the Thanksgiving table, groaning with poultry, pie and mashed potatoes.
Scientists find molecular trigger that helps prevent aging and disease
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine set out to address a question that has been challenging scientists for years: How do dietary restriction—and the reverse, overconsumption—produce protective effects against aging ...
Researcher finds reason for weight gain
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Liwei Chen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, is the lead author of a research paper showing that weight gain and obesity are more linked to ...
Substituting water for sugar-sweetened beverages can reduce excess calorie consumption
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Replacing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) with water could eliminate an average of 235 excess calories per day among children and adolescents, according to a study published in the April 2009 Archives of Pe ...
Fast food meals are smaller, have fewer calories than food served at restaurants
Dec 17, 2008 |
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A new study in the Review of Agricultural Economics compares fast food and table service meals at restaurants. Results show that both are larger and have more calories than meals prepared at home, with the typical fast f ...
