Calories
What is a calorie?
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calorie is a unit of measurement for energy.
1 calorie is the amount of thermal energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celsius.
What’s the difference between a Calorie and a calorie?
When talking about food and exercise people tend to use Calorie which really means
kilocalorie and that is the same as 1000 calories.
How many Calories does it take to gain or loose a pound of fat?
In order to gain a pound you need take in 3500 more Calories then you burn and the
opposite is true for loosing a pound.
How many crunches does it take to burn a Calorie?
Research has shown that it takes 250,000 crunches to loose a pound, so it would take over 71.4 crunches to burn a Calorie.