Mini-blog of the day: Calories stored in fat
A pound of adipose tissue (aka body fat) stores about 3500 calories. If follows, therefore, that to lose a pound of the jiggly stuff in a week, we must consume 500 fewer calories than we expend each day.
For a 140 pound person, walking one hour at 5 mph (pretty brisk pace) burns about this much. A MacDonald's Big Mac more than puts it back on...definitely food for thought.
Posted on Friday, January 5, 2007 at 09:12PM
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nail on the head, I just don't think that people quite get it.
I'm not for sure how many people I've talked to concerning this very
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, Excellent post!