12 July 2009
Healthy eating: how to burn calories
Posted by Cecilia under: Health .
Healthy eating is about the right balance between food and activity. Theoretically we can eat everything, even unhealthy calorie-rich food as long as we answer the superfluous calorie intake with appropriate activities.
Gaining weight is often the combination of eating fatty meals and salty snacks in big amounts with simultaneous immobility. When we eat fatty fast food meals from time to time it’s ok if we do some activity afterwards.
What kind of activities can we do to burn 560 calories from a McDonald’s Big Mac or a Jumbo Cake Muffins?
- Leisure bicycling: 1 hour and 40 minutes
- Rearranging furniture: 1 hour
- Painting house: 1 hour and 20 minutes
- Washing the car: 1 hour and 30 minutes
- Gardening: 1 hour and 10 minutes
- Mowing with a manual mower: 1 hour and 30 minutes
- Chopping wood: 1 hour and 10 minutes
- Ironing: 3 hours
- Playing piano: 2 hours and 20 minutes
- Jogging: 1 hour
- Walking 4mph: 1 hour and 20 minutes
- Running 5 mph: 50 minutes
- Hiking: 1 hour and 10 minutes
- Bowling: 2 hours and 10 minutes
- Rope jumping: 40 minutes
- Playing golf with carrying the clubs: 1 hour and 10 minutes
- Water skiing: 1 hour and 10 minutes
- Moderately swimming: 1 hour and 10 minutes
- Playing tennis: 1 hour and 10 minutes
- Weight lifting generally: 2 hours
- Sitting and resting: 6 hours and 40 minutes
This list represents average numbers and are calculated for persons with a weight of 180 lbs.
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