He can only convert three or four thousandcalories of energy a day and he does that very inefficiently.
The reason for this is that for the sake of convenience the calories have been given in round numbers--5 or ten calories one way or the other makes no difference.
The fat may be increased by the addition of butter or olive oil if more calories are needed to maintain body weight.
The whiskey is not an essential part of the treatment; it merely furnishes a few calories and keeps the patient more comfortable while he is being starved.
I've been on it for a year now, and even though I am a stone calorie freak and pack away five or six thousand calories a day, I don't gain an ounce.
But when the average American gets the majority of her calories from soda-pop, 'healthy' is a pretty loaded term.
But you both are taller than five feet five inches, and I should think you weighed more than 145 pounds; so I can't tell just yet how many calories you will need.
I want to eat what I like, and as much as I like, whether it's six calories or six thousand!
They even give the quantities of calories of energy required for different sized men.
I reckon, with an incentive like that to eat, just about two calories would do me.
And you always have two, so that means 200 calories in fats and proteins.
Food from wet climates tends to be higher in calories while much lower in protein and essential mineral nutrients.
What limits our ability to intake nutrients is the amount of bulk we can process--or the number of calories in the food.
The rate of thermal evolution was such that it appeared that one gramme of pure radium must emit about 100 gramme-calories of heat in an hour.
The activity of radium decays so slowly that it would not sink to half its initial value in less than some two thousand years, and yet one gramme of radium emits about 100 calories of heat during each hour of its existence.
Food scientists say that from two thousand, seven hundred to three thousand, three hundred calories are needed daily, but you will note that this man generally keeps below one-half of this, if you are able to figure food values.
Allow me to repeat that it is impossible to figure out the calories in a given amount of food and then give enough food to furnish so many calories and thus obtain good results.
Lean meat may contain less than four hundred calories per pound, while very fat meat may contain more than one thousand five hundred calories.
The estimate of food values in terms of calories may not completely express the value of that food to a particular individual.
It is generally conceded that one great function of food is the production of energy and this function is probably more closely determined by the number of calories produced than in any other known way.
So the steward's calories became a byword and a mockery in the prison for many weeks afterward.
The sum of his comment was this: "Put a Delmonico dinner in one bucket, and an equal bulk of swill or garbage in another; the number of calories may be the same in both.
Physiologists have determined by repeated experiments that a definite quantity of certain foods furnishes a definite number of calories or heat units, which produce a certain quantity of energy in the animal or human body.
The quantity of heat in calories may be calculated by use of the equation, calories per second = volts x amperes x .
The total number of calories H developed in t seconds will be given by H = P.
As shown in Table I, this vegetable is low in food value, containing only 210 calories to the pound, but, if purchased, they are always an expensive food.
It contains, as Table I shows, only one-fourth as manycalories to the pound as potatoes.
The food value of celery is extremely low, being less than 100 calories to the pound or about equal to that of 1 ounce of meat.
Each glass is represented as containing approximately 1 pint or 1 pound of the milk product, and the figures underneath each indicate the number of calories found in the quantity represented.
In the case of several vegetables, no figures are given by this authority, but in the table here presented the percentages and the calories for the vegetables most similar are used.
Because of their high food value, which is somewhat over 1,600 calories to the pound, they are a valuable food in the diet, particularly as a meat substitute.
It is not clear whether one burns more calories today in jogging than in working, but it is clear that discipline, in particular that of self-denial, is replaced by unpredictable self-indulgence.
Our indexical signs serve as indicators for various forms of filteringcalories (how many do we really need?
It is a fact worthy of note that the average man requires 3,500 calories of energy each day, an amount which must be secured from food consumed.
Physiologists have determined by experiment the different amounts of calories produced by different kinds of foods and the varying amounts needed by men at rest, at light work, at hard work, by women and by children.
For example, all the calories might be provided by potatoes alone, or grains alone, or meat or fats alone.
But the simple provision of the total sum of calories may by no means satisfy the real food needs of the population.
The increase in the temperature of the water, multiplied by the weight of the water in grams, gives the number of calories contained in the substance tested.
Pure butter contains about 3,600 heat-calories to the pound, and therefore constitutes one of the most important and readily convertible of all winter foods.
This corrected range multiplied by the water equivalent of the calorimeter gives the heat of combustion in calories of the coal burned in the calorimeter together with that evolved by the burning of the fuse wire.
Adding to these figures the amount of energy represented by the alcohol, in each case, the total available caloriesvaries from 55.
AD] Total calories per diem dose includes the calories of alcohol in the liquid medicinal foods and the calories of the fat in milk.
The calories given in the accompanying table do not include sugar, alcohol or any other added material of this character.
It is evident, therefore, that to measure the value of a given food in calories only is misleading and dangerous, and an editorial in your valuable publication of November 4 last distinctly points this out.
The total available calories per daily dose based on the proteid and carbohydrate bodies varies from 9.
The number of calories per diem in sickness should not fall much below 1,500 during twenty-four hours.
Further, to compare the economic value of Sanatogen on the basis of caloriesis as unscientific as it is deliberately misleading.
The figures are for the numbers of calories in a pound of the food material as purchased in the market.
A pound of nuts contains on an average more than 3,000 calories or food units, double the amount supplied by grains, four times as much as average meats and ten times as much as average fruits or vegetables.
Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue.
They stand around and literally warm themselves at the caloriesof virtue he gives off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calories" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
