Calories Burned With Various Foods

Calories Burned With Various Foods

The value of knowing the amount of calories burned from various activities and from various foods is to be pointed in the right direction when striving toward achieving your health goals.

For example, the amount of calories for a few assorted foods is:

140 Regular 1 oz chocolate chip cookie
130 4 oz broiled white fish – Halibut, Sole
55 4 oz apple
110 1 ½ oz slice of 12-grain bread
105 1 oz instant dry regular oatmeal
200 1 slice medium (12 inch) pizza 1/8 of the pizza
380 4 oz lean raw ground beef – nothing to improve the taste or cook in
140 1.6 oz hot dog without the bun or extras
120 4 oz turkey breast
140 2 tablespoons of Ranch dressing
115 4 oz low fat fruit flavored yogurt
140 4 oz vanilla ice cream
25 5 oz tomato
15 3 oz zucchini
4 1 clove of garlic
90 4 oz peeled potato
15 2 ½ oz sauerkraut
80 2 ½ oz cooked yams
7 2 oz lettuce
20 2 ½ cooked mushrooms
540 Fast food hamburger
380 4.1 oz medium french fries
560 16 oz milk shake
210 21 fluid ounce medium soft drink

This gives you an idea of what foods contribute to your goal of eating about 400 calories (depending on your height, weight, activity level, metabolic rate, etc)

The next step is to compare the calories obtained from the various foods eaten with the calories burned from the daily activities to determine whether you are eating more calories than you burn. If you are, you will be gaining fat. However, a more important factor is the metabolic rate at which you burn your calories. This is established by your body based on your activity level and the frequency of your meals. When you allow more than 3-4 hours between meals your metabolism slows down (you have fewer calories burned per hour) – storing more calories into fat than normally.

For more on Calories Eaten vs Calories Burned go to: My Blog: Calories Burned From Food vs Daily Activity

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