How Calories Affect Your Weight, Your Health and Your Body

Mar 16, 12 How Calories Affect Your Weight, Your Health and Your Body

Posted by Carolyn in Diet, Healthy Eating, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Weight Loss

With the growing obesity epidemic, our society has begun to focus attention on effective methods to lose weight. The result has been a social obsession with “miracle diets” which has introduced a surprisingly controversial debate about calorie consumption. You may have heard the phrase “a calorie is a...

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How Do Calories Affect You?

Dec 09, 09 How Do Calories Affect You?

Posted by Patrick McDowell in Articles, Diet

Calories can be defined as  potential energy for the body. In fact, anything we eat is considered to be potential energy for our body. This energy can take the form of fats, cholesterol, carbohydrates or proteins, and each of these has a respective number of calories. For example, four calories are found in one gram of protein, one...

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