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noun

Thermodynamics.

Also called gram calorie, small calorie. an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. Abbreviation: cal

(usually initial capital letter

) kilocalorie. Abbreviation: Cal

Physiology.

a unit equal to the kilocalorie, used to express the heat output of an organism and the fuel or energy value of food.

a quantity of food capable of producing such an amount of energy.

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Also, calory.

Origin:
1800–10; < French, equivalent to calor- (< Latin calor heat) + -ie -y³

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The energy stored in food is measured in terms of calories.

Things you eat in your dreams have no calories or other unwanted things and you can eat all you want with no repercussions.

But when people have enough calories they need to diversify towards vegetables, pulses and meat.

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The energy stored in food is measured in terms of calories.

Things you eat in your dreams have no calories or other unwanted things and you can eat all you want with no repercussions.

But when people have enough calories they need to diversify towards vegetables, pulses and meat.

By raising the surrounding air temperature, the bats would need to burn fewer calories to warm back up.

Counting calories today is as easy as checking the label in a grocery store, or perusing the menu in a restaurant.

Their metabolic rate stays elevated for hours after the last weight is put away, burning extra calories.

I've always thought fried green tomatoes weren't worth the calories.

Pace, distance and calories are easy to switch between, thanks to the simple three-button setup.

The toughest part of counting calories can be figuring out how many are actually on your plate.

It turns out that large brains need a huge amount of calories to function.

For example, suppose you measure how many calories a mouse burns per day, compared to an elephant.

Female reproductive success is directly related to the number of calories she eats.

The basic formula for weight loss is simple and widely known: consume fewer calories than you expend.

Juicy and refreshing pickle is rich in vitamins and minerals, and poor in calories.

Nevertheless, the parallel is intriguing-and yet another incentive to cut down on the calories.

But don't ask them to tell you how many calories are in that jumbo tub of popcorn.

Standing desks alow you to stretch and move while you work-you burn more calories than sitting.

If sweeteners are used as part of a low-fat diet in which all calories are accounted for, there should be no problem.

He's been eating a third fewer calories than the average person for more than a decade.

We needed these high density calories to feed our growing brains.

Sure, the exercise benefits may be minimal but it's more calories burned than coding.

For lower-income consumers, more calories per dollar means more satisfaction until the next meal.

Some restaurants serve up more calories than promised.

It's a delicious sandwich, but filled with calories and carbs.

Unwanted packages are often discreetly handed on to others, creating a cascade of calories and goodwill.

The extra calories they stored when fruit was plentiful are now helping them survive.

Women who consumed more calories while pregnant had more males than women on lower-calorie diets.

Once finished and frosted, it's a foot tall and packs an astronomical number of calories per slice.

Most fat-free foods have nearly as many calories as their full-fat counterparts.

Most doctors believe that obesity is the result of consuming more calories than a body burns.

New study reveals why restricting calories may lead to longevity.

Wilderness travel uses more calories than you will expect.

However, many foods with added sugars contain nothing but calories.

Meals of stir-fried vegetables, sweet potatoes, and tofu are high in nutrients and low in calories.

It is these high calorie foods allow you to consume less to get more calories per serving.

Potatoes rule when it comes to calories per square foot.

The insulation that keeps seals warm is pure fat, which provides twice the calories of muscle.

Your metabolism slows down, but you are still burning calories.

Sports function tracks steps taken and calories burned.

We don't have the luxury of carrying heavy foodstuffs underground and freeze dried food is notoriously lacking in calories.

For instance, increasing sugar and calories in fortified orange juice in an overweight diabetic.

The fat cell's main job is to store our excess calories as fat.

It's hard work and they don't take in a lot of empty calories.

The duration of the test would need to track burning of and consumption of calories on days with no work out at all also.

If there is a pill that will help exercise burn more calories and be more productive then bring it on.

By measuring the actual number of calories the body.

When people wolf their food, they end up consuming more calories than they would at a slower pace.

For years, diets and weight-loss books have boasted that you can eat a piece of food and burn calories at the same time.

Obesity is a net condition: calories in minus calories out.

Europe, meanwhile, is hoping to burn off the calories in the future.

Residents burn calories merely by walking from one place to another many times a day.

Dog and cat owners who buy diet pet foods may be feeding their animals more calories than they realize.

Of course, people put on weight when they consume more calories than they burn off.

We save extra calories as fat to carry us through the times when finding food was tough.

Even as they swing in constant, languid motion, orangutans burn fewer calories than a human couch potato.

The bottom billion do not receive enough calories or micronutrients for proper health.

These low-energy fields produced as many calories worth of crops, and generated about the same amount of money.

If these two have the same value, the net change in calories is zero.

Fall on short and you're more interesting as calories only.

Through the workout, the device also offers audio feedback such as the number of calories burnt, time and distance.

We've only been thinking about calories in terms of food.

The surge in human obesity is generally attributed to an increasing consumption of calories and a decrease in physical activity.

As an exercise aid, the game also keeps track of more traditional running metrics such as distance covered and calories burned.

In a study, students were asked to think about fruit salad and a cheesecake and then estimate the calories in a cheeseburger.

To burn the calories in a large fast-food meal can require the equivalent of running a marathon.

Counting calories has long been a popular and effective way to lose weight.

Computing calories would be truly impossible for such places.

The local cuisine dates back to the days when people burned off calories at work.

Mammalian brains also burn about one third of the total calories consumed.

The slimming operators fought back this month by launching new, simplified systems for counting calories.

Citing sluggish metabolism at the end of the day or even the notion that no one burns calories in the.

People sitting at their desks don't use up the calories they used to tilling the fields.

Active video games get children to burn more than four times as many calories than the sedentary video games.

But calories from sweet drinks are not the only problem.

Maryland, suggests that cutting back on the calories reduces the production of free radicals.

The fear of calories and the fear of other peoples obesity.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun, plural -ries.

calorie.

noun Thermodynamics.

one thousand small calories. Abbreviation: kcal Also called Calorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie. Compare calorie (def. 1a).

Origin:
1890–95; kilo- + calorie

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Word Origin & History

calorie

1866, from Fr. calorie, from L. calor (gen. caloris) "heat," from PIE *kle-os-, suffixed form of base *kele- "warm" (cf. L. calidus "warm," calere "be hot;" Skt. carad- "harvest," lit. "hot time;" Lith. silti "become warm," silus "August;" O.N. hlær, O.E. hleow "warm"). Technically, the heat required

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to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 degree Celsius. In scientific use, largely replaced 1950 by the joule.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

calorie cal·o·rie (kāl'ə-rē)
n.

A unit of energy-producing potential supplied by food and released upon oxidation by the body, equal to the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1°C at one atmosphere pressure. Also called nutritionist's calorie.
The unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1°C at 1 atmosphere pressure. Also called kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie.
Any of several approximately equal units of heat, each measured as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1°C from a standard initial temperature at 1 atmosphere pressure. Also called gram calorie, small calorie.
The unit of heat equal to ¹/₁₀₀ the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water from 0 to 100°C at 1 atmosphere pressure. Also called mean calorie.

kilocalorie kil·o·cal·o·rie (kĭl'ə-kāl'ə-rē)
n.

Abbr. kcal See calorie.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

calorie

(kāl'ə-rē) Pronunciation Key

A unit of energy equal to the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius. One calorie is equivalent to 4.1868 joules. Also called small calorie.
Calorie A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1,000 grams of water by one degree Celsius. This unit is used as a measure of the energy released by food as it is digested by the human body. Also called kilocalorie, large calorie.

kilocalorie

(kĭl'ə-kāl'ə-rē) Pronunciation Key
See calorie.

American Heritage

Cultural Dictionary

Calorie definition

The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. A calorie (with a lower-case c) is a measurement of the heat needed to raise the temperature of a gram of water, rather than a kilogram.

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