While all that chewing and digesting of the fibrous food does burn calories, it doesn't burn a lot.
Schaaf liked spinning, which allowed her to burn calories without pounding her joints with the extra weight she was carrying.
Other foods have different ways of increasing the rate at which we burn calories (otherwise known as the metabolic rate).
Another winning move: As of 2009, all new Kohl's stores will have bike racks so you can burn calories, save money on gas, and reduce your carbon footprint to and from the store.
Yes, we burn more calories proportionately from fat at lower intensity, but we burn far more calories, period, at higher intensity.
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This means that you would have to eat 1750 calories fewer, burn 1750 calories more per day, or a combination of calorie reduction and exercise.
This power-packed 2 minutes in the kitchen will easily kill 80-100 calories right at the start of your day, AND rev up your metabolism to burn more calories as you move through it.
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"There's no research to say that cold water drinkers burn more calories, " he says.
Getting out of your chair for one hour while you type will burn 100 calories.
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Back in the day we realized that proportionally, we burn more calories from fat at lower intensities.
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You burn fewer calories, and a higher BMI increases your risk for a host of other health issues.
Matthews says that an average 150-lb. woman can burn 129 calories an hour by simply standing up while talking on the phone.
Others have turned to peddling away while wander about the virtual realms of online game "World of Warcraft" to burn off calories.
To lose weight, you have to burn more calories than you eat.
If you burn more calories than you consume, weight will drop.
Just twenty minutes of walking at 3mph will burn 100 calories.
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By alternating high- and low-intensity exercise during the same workout, you are able to exercise at a higher overall average intensity, burn more calories and improve fitness.
Since running is a more intense type of physical activity, runners generally burn more calories and develop a higher intensity of energy expenditure over a shorter period of time.
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U.S. company Steelcase now manufactures its own commercially available "Walkstation, " and while it's no substitute for a session in the gym, you may soon be able to burn extra calories while you reply to emails from the boss.
It points out that obesity is caused by consuming more calories than we burn, and that calories come from many sources, including Coca-Cola.
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Once you know how many calories you burn each day, the answer to how many additional calories you should eat has not really been established and depends to a great extent on how hard you work in the gym.
Burn off 400 calories in the gym, and you can have that martini or two.
Instead of 300-400, you can expect to burn about 20 calories while getting it on.
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All told, kettlebells helped participants burn about 20 calories a minute, which is equivalent to running a six-minute mile.
Louisville's basketball players burn so many calories and have such high metabolisms that they possess a superpower everyone else craves: the ability to snack without repercussions.
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At home, make extra trips up and down the stairs doing laundry, getting the mail or taking in groceries. 15 minutes of stair climbing will burn about 100 calories, while strengthening your calves.
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First of all, if you burn that many calories asking a question -- (laughter) -- you know, I mean, she's fired up. (Applause.) So you'll be able to eat whatever you want.
Those watching their waistline can register for the five or 10km Rump Roast Run to burn off some calories in the morning, though it might be a wash as the winners each receive a raw 20lb rump roast.
Even though it doesn't burn a lot of calories, it makes my mind calm.
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The action plan will also target working adults, through schemes such as the development of interactive tools which can help employees keep track of what they eat and what calories they burn.
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