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calories

[ kal-uh-reez ]

noun

  1. the plural of calorie.


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The four equations can be modified with a terrain variable that adjusts the calories predictions if you’re walking on gravel or mud or whatever else you encounter outside the lab.

The researchers found that the loss of lean muscle mass was extraordinarily hard to reverse, and doing so required sharply increasing the men’s calories and protein intake for as long as two years.

“One of the big misconceptions is that eating fat makes you fat, because it has more calories,” Asprey says.

“Running is just that much more efficient in expending more calories in a shorter amount of time,” Williams says.

What I mean to say is that the calories he is consuming match the calories expended—at 200 pounds, or 300 pounds, or 400 pounds.

But if “calories-in-calories-out” is a meaningful weight-loss paradigm as the show insists, then plateaus simply are not possible.

Sip on This You may have heard that alcohol is packed with empty calories, which is true.

At this point I released about seven thousand calories of language, but it didn't help any.

In the dose stated, an invalid would get about 50 calories, or about 1⁄40 the necessary nourishment for a day.

Further, to compare the economic value of Sanatogen on the basis of calories is as unscientific as it is deliberately misleading.

He has made up a number of tables, in which he has designated portions of food, each of which furnishes 100 Calories of energy.

A large orange or an apple or a glass of grape juice contains about 100 calories.

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