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Article: REFIGURING THE EXERCISE-CALORIES EQUATION
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- December 27, 1994
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CALORIES
You're working up a good sweat on your exercise bike at a moderate resistance level. After 24 minutes the readout gives you the bottom line: You've burned off 206 calories.
Two hundred and six calories! You blew more than that with your prudent breakfast of low-fat fruit yogurt (150 calories) and orange juice (80 calories). You begin to wonder how much cycling it's going to take to work off Christmas dinner.
Here's the dismaying answer: It is very, very difficult to exercise off excess calories.
"Patients are often surprised and discouraged by how much exercise it takes to burn off calories," said Joy Kistler, ...