A pound of fat is equal to about four hundred fifty three grams or three thousand five hundred calories.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

Yet there was no difference in calories between the two groups for foods that the parents would have chosen for themselves.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Parents given the counts chose an average of one hundred two fewer calories when asked what they would order for their children.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Mrs.Obama says thirty million American children get the majority of their calories from foods they eat at school.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

But they believe there is a helpful change in the way the body processes energy in the monkeys that eat fewer calories.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

Dr. Ornish's diet plan limits daily calories from fat to less than ten percent, with little to no saturated fat or cholesterol.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

There is a debate about whether or not swimming burns as many calories as other forms of exercise.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

The monkeys that ate fewer calories look younger and healthier than fatter monkeys on an unrestricted diet.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

To lose that fat in a week, you have to burn off at least that amount in calories or eat that much less.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

He also suggested that people get seventy to seventy-five percent of their calories from complex carbohydrates, and fifteen to twenty percent from proteins.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

And those extra calories could help explain the rise in overweight children in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

The National Institutes of Health suggests that women limit their calories to no less than one thousand two hundred calories a day without medical supervision.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

America's National Institutes of Health has suggested that women limit calories to no less than one thousand two hundred calories a day without medical supervision.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

Mister Weindruch says researchers do not know why reducing calories increases the length of life.

VOA: special.2009.09.01