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15 Pretty Easy Ways To Burn 100 Calories

By on May 23, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight

Want to burn some extra calories?  Try fitting in a couple of these activities in every day. A 150 pound person would burn around 100 calories by: Casually biking for 23 minutes Using the elliptical for 8 minutes Walking stairs for 11 minutes Doing yoga for 20 minutes Doing zumba for 11 minutes Doing pilates [...]

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Vending Machines: What Are Your Favorite Letter/Number Combinations?

By on May 22, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating with Family and Friends, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

Sooner or later you’ll have your next sharing moment with a vending machine – you share your money and the machine shares its calories. Vending machines are everywhere – down the hall from your office or around the corner from your hotel room, in hospital waiting rooms, in train stations, and calling your name on [...]

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Do Ballparks And Amusement Parks Mean Hotdogs, Peanuts, And Cotton Candy?

By on May 21, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

Seriously – you’re not going to a game or to go on rides without having something to eat and drink. That’s part of the fun. So what do you do with food vendors about every 20 feet hawking dogs, ice cream, and fried everything? There Are Ways And Then There Are Ways If you’ve got [...]

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What’s Your Favorite Movie Theater Food?

By on May 20, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

When you go to the movies what do you usually notice first?  After the cost of the ticket, it’s probably is the delicious smell of freshly popped (maybe) popcorn. It’s no accident that the concession stand with it’s popcorn popper and glass cases filled with the candy that reminds you that you were once a [...]

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Is It Coffee, A Frappuccino, A Coolatta, Or Dessert?

By on May 18, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

When the weather heats up, the coffee drinks cool down.  Unfortunately, some of those delicious iced and frozen coffee drinks – whether they’re from a coffee shop or from a can — can really bump up your calories and fat grams. Keep in mind that you can always order plain old iced coffee or even [...]

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Are Your Snacks The Equivalent Of Another Meal?

By on May 17, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

We chow down on a lot of snack food — a quarter of our calories come from them! Snacks account for more than 25% of Americans’ daily calorie intake; since the 1970s, snacks have accounted for around 580 calories a day — which basically turns them into “a full eating event,” or a fourth meal. [...]

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How Many Calories Do You Drink?

By on May 16, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight

Did you know that because alcohol doesn’t register as “food” in your GI tract or your brain, it doesn’t fill you up the way food does? But alcohol does have calories — 7 calories a gram – more than carbs and protein which clock in at 4 calories a gram (fat has 9). So, because [...]

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It’s Really True: Shopping When You’re Hungry Means More Calories In Your Cart

By on May 15, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight, Shopping, Cooking, Baking

You’ve probably heard this before:  “Don’t shop when you’re hungry.” But is it a myth or a fact? Two experiments put this to the test. After not eating for 5 hours, 68 men and women were allowed to shop for food on two separate days in a simulated grocery store (a Cornell lab).  Lower-calorie healthy [...]

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Can You Save Calories Eating A Ham And Cheese Sandwich Instead Of A Salad?

By on May 14, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Somehow we’ve embraced the idea that salads are always a light and healthy choice.  Sometimes they are – but all too often they aren’t. Listen to lunchtime orders and you hear salad, salad, salad – and an occasional sandwich. Sometimes the sandwich is the clear winner in terms of calories and fat.  For instance, a [...]

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Want To Decrease Your Dinner Calories? Change The Size Of Your Plate

By on May 13, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating with Family and Friends, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight

Does the size of your plate make a difference other than for convenience?  You bet it does.Since 1960, the size of the average dinner plate has increased 36%. Today’s dinner plate measures 11 to 12 inches across — a few decades ago they were 7 to 9 inches. A European plate averages 9 inches and [...]

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