Solid fats are often one of the biggest sources of empty calories in kids' diets.

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The 'empty calories' in drinks are often forgotten or ignored by dieters, says the WCRF.

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Fortunately, the only carried a small bag, but we still added almost 350 empty calories to our waistlines.

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Just feeding grains is empty calories it produces weight gains but main as fat.

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You know it's all empty calories, but some folks eat it anyway.

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Call them empty calories and then cut them from your diet for good.

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Dent corn, is 2-4% protein -almost all empty calories from starch.

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And while the brain may not be overloaded by 34 gigabytes of brute information a day, it appears that too many of these mental quanta are the equivalent of empty calories.

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Aside from the generous 2 percent of the recommended daily allowance of iron in a Kit Kat bar, and 1 percent vitamin A, candy is largely devoid of nutrients and constitutes empty calories.

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The movie is a metaphysical Cracker Jack box without so much as a shiny prize in its empty-calories depths.

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These are empty information calories, to borrow a phrase from Clay Johnson's timely new book, The Information Diet.

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