Curious Calories

You hear the word Calorie used all the time these days. Food commercials, packaging, everywhere you look. You know that there is a certain amount that you should eat each day, but when looking at foods it is hard to tell if it is an ingredient or what.

A Calorie is actually a measure of energy. When the term was created the base of one calorie was established as the amount of energy that an approximately 150 pound person burns each minute while sleeping.

It really doesn't matter what you eat or how you eat it. If the food says that it has 80 calories, whether it be Meat, Vegetables, Candy, Bread it is still just 80 calories.

Eating the calories is not what causes weight gain. It is eating too many and burning too few that will cause weight gain.