News tagged with calorie burning

Calories can burn at rest with regular exercise

It is widely known that weight gain is due to an imbalance between food intake and energy expenditure, and that exercise is vital for maintaining a healthy weight by burning calories as a result of muscular activity.

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created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Every move you make: Free smart phone app helps you burn calories

What can't the iPhone do? Now, thanks to a University of Houston professor, it can even count how many calories you've burned in a given day.

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created May 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Increased food intake alone explains the increase in body weight in the US

New research that uses an innovative approach to study, for the first time, the relative contributions of food and exercise habits to the development of the obesity epidemic has concluded that the rise in obesity in the United ...

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created May 08, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 7

Joslin study identifies 'good' energy burning fat in lean adults

Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have demonstrated that adult humans still have a type of "good" fat previously believed to be present only in babies and children. Unlike white fat, which stores energy and comprises ...

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created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Physical activity may not be key to obesity epidemic

A recent international study fails to support the common belief that the number of calories burned in physical activity is a key factor in rising rates of obesity.

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created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (5) | comments 15