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Nut	Number of Nuts	Calories
Almonds, raw	14	97
Almonds, dry-roasted, salted	14	98
Brazil nuts, dried	3	93
Cashews, raw	10	98
Cashews, oil-roasted, salted	9	96
Hazelnuts, dry-roasted	10	102
Macadamias, raw	5	102
Macadamias, dry-roasted, salted	5	102
Peanut, raw	17	99
Peanut, oil-roasted, salted	16	96
Pecan halves	10	98
Pine nuts, dried	77	100
Pistachios, dry-roasted, unsalted	29	99
Pistachios, oil-roasted, salted	29	99
Walnuts, dried	13	104

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The amount of sweat doesn’t always determine the amount of calories you are burning. Sweat is simply the body’s way of regulating body temperature but it doesn’t determine if you are burning fat. (Example: you may be sweating profusely while you are in a sauna but it does not mean you are burning fat.)

Labels: Calories, exercise, Rate of Perceived Exertion, sweat, toxins

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What You Will Find In 1 ounce of:

Almonds (20-24 nuts): 161 cals, 14g fat, 1g sat fat, 6g protein

Brazil Nuts (6-8 nuts): 183 cals, 19g fat, 4g sat fat, 4g protein

Cashews (16-18 nuts): 160 cals, 13g fat, 3g sat fat, 4g protein

Hazelnuts (18-20 nuts): 180 cals, 17g fat, 1g sat fat, 4g protein

Macadamias (10-12 nuts): 201 cals, 21g fat, 3g sat fat, 2g protein

Peanuts (28 nuts): 166 cals, 14g fat, 2g sat fat, 7g protein

Pecans (18-20 halves): 198 cals, 21g fat, 2g sat fat, 3g protein

Pine nuts (150-157 nuts): 188 cals, 19g fat, 1g sat fat, 4g protein

Pistachios (45-47 nuts): 159 cals, 13g fat, 2g sat fat, 6g protein

Walnuts (14 halves): 183 cals, 18g fat, 2g sat fat, 4g protein

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Labels: Calories, healthy diet, healthy food, healthy snacks, Nuts, protein

With a few exceptions, few restaurants go out of their way to publish the nutritional information about their food, at least not in any obvious way offline. Much the way D+caf Test Strips have blown the proverbial lid open on caffeine content, however, Fatburgr is a new site that puts together in one place the nutritional facts about a variety of fast-food restaurants and chains.

Some 20 restaurants are currently listed on Fatburgr—including McDonald's, Subway and Chili's, for example—and more are being added every day, the company says. For each of them the site lists the calories, fat, carbs and fiber content for each menu item, and users can sort the list by any of those criteria. Listings can also be searched by food type, and all data is available by iPhone for those needing to make ordering decisions on the go. Fatburgr is free to use.

Besides equipping consumers with information that can help them stay healthier, of course, Fatburgr is also a nice example of what our sister site trendwatching would call transparency tyranny, leaving companies with nowhere to hide the facts they might prefer not be known. On that note, Fatburgr has even set up a "wall of shame"—though it's still empty—for restaurants that won't fork over their nutritional information. Restaurants around the world: Be prepared to open up the truth about your food, or this could happen to you! ;-)

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Labels: Calories, fast food, Fat, innovative, junk food, nutritional information, restaurants

Brut

A term used to describe the most dry — least sweet — Champagne and sparkling wines.

These wines contain less sugar than wines labeled extra dry.



Thanks Yumsugar!

Labels: Brut, Calories, champagne, definition, sparkling wine

Not sure what to order at McDonald's? Ask the city's dietitian for help.

A new blog will take questions about how to eat out healthily at everywhere from a hot-dog stand to a corner deli, officials said yesterday.

"For instance, just ordering tap water instead of soda will save hundreds of calories a day - and several dollars," said Cathy Nonas of the Health Department. The blog will go up at nyc.gov/health later this week.

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Labels: blog, Calories, Cathy Nonas, eating healthy, innovative, NYC

The city Board of Health yesterday approved a new version of a law requiring fast-food outlets to display calorie counts.
The law passed last year, which was challenged in court applied, to restaurants that were already providing nutritional information to customers. The new policy will apply to any chain that operates at least 15 separate outlets.
"It's going to get a lot easier to make informed choices at New York City's chain restaurants this spring," said Margo Wootan, nutrition policy director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
"We expect that many more cities, counties and states will require menu labeling once they see how easy it is for these chains to list calories on menus."
The regulation takes effect March 31 and the restaurants will be required to display calorie counts "in close proximity" to items on their menus or menu boards in letters and numbers at least as big as the name of the item or the price.

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Who doesn't like the concept of something for nothing, especially when it comes to exercise and calories burned. I am talking about "exercise after burn" the concept that the body keeps burning extra calories post workout. It is true that we burn extra calories after exercising and it even has a very official sounding name: excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, or EPOC for short. It just seems that some of the claims about EPOC are wildly exaggerated, so let's set the record straight.

When you workout, your cells are essentially working out too. Post exercise, the cells need to restore their functioning to pre-exercise levels and that requires oxygen, which takes energy, aka calories. This cell restoration burns calories but not nearly as many as you might have heard. During an interview on the Fitness Rocks podcast, renowned sports physiologist Dr. Len Kravitz (not to be confused with renowned rocker Lenny) explained the after burn phenomenon. Truth is that it really only lasts for two hours post workout.

You only burn an additional 15 percent of the total calories expended during your workout. So if you burned 300 calories actively exercising at the gym, you will burn about an extra 45 calories over the next two hours. This figure of "15 percent" is on the high end as well.

While 45 calories may not sound like much, all those calories do add up. If you burn 300 calories three times in one week that is an extra 135 calories and that does feel a little like you are getting something for nothing. So work it, just don't rely on the after burn. Just because you are exercising doesn't mean you can eat everything you want.

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Exercise physiologists say there is little in the world of exercise as wildly exaggerated as people’s estimates of the number of calories they burn.
Despite the displays on machines at gyms, with their precise-looking calorie counts, and despite the official-looking published charts of exercise and calories, it can be all but impossible to accurately estimate of the number of calories you burn.
You can use your heart rate to gauge your effort, and from that you can plan routines that are as challenging as you want. But, researchers say, heart rate does not translate easily into calories. And you may be in for a rude surprise if you try to count the calories you think you used during exercise and then reward yourself with extra food.
One reason for the calorie-count skepticism is that two individuals of the same age, gender, height, weight and even the same level of fitness can burn a different amount of calories at the same level of exertion.
Even if you wanted to get a rough estimate of the calories an average person your size might burn at the gym, you might not want to trust the displays on cardio machines, with the possible exception of treadmills, said William Haskell, an exercise physiologist at Stanford. And with treadmills, the calories are not accurate if you hang on the bars.
Dr. Haskell once studied people using treadmills. Hanging onto the rails reduced the number of calories burned by 40 to 50 percent. The same thing happened with stair-climbing machines.
As for the calorie counts on machines like stationary bicycles and elliptical cross trainers and stair climbers, all bets are off, researchers said.
A major problem is that the machines get out of calibration. “They drift in speed and grade,” Dr. Haskell said. “If you go from one machine to another, it is obvious that at the same setting you are working much harder on one and much less on the next.”

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