True or False?

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edited June 8 in AAT student discussion
Do you really use more calories eating celery than you gain from eating celery?

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  • System
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    Re:True or False?

    True
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:True or False?

    Apparently...

    http://ask.yahoo.com/20040107.html

    On GMTV this morning, there was a woman who paid £70 for 100 diet weight loss chocolates. Apparently eating them made you lose weight. She didn't so was on LK Today complaining about how she'd been ripped off. DUH!

    Personally, I think she'd be better off complaining to God about how she managed to be born with her brain clearly missing.

    And women say they're cleverer than men!

    Robert
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:True or False?

    Hows bigs 8 inches though :shock: :D
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:True or False?
    Paul22 wrote:
    Hows bigs 8 inches though :shock: :D


    Are we talking about Robert's new lappy notty thing? 'Cos I'm sure he said it was bigger than that.

    :wink:

    Helen
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:True or False?
    blobbyh wrote:
    Apparently women say they're cleverer than men!

    Robert

    Not true, we're just more intelligent.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:True or False?

    [quote=BaggybooksNot true, we're just more intelligent.[/quote]

    Yeah, I should have seen that handing over seventy quid for a pre-18th century miracle cure is sufficient evidence of that...

    Bugger, I've made your mistake too... the newly coined phrase a Baggyballsup...

    Robert
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Have you never given into temptation?

    We shouldn't generalise. I'm sure there are one or two intelligent blokes out there.

    :roll:
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:True or False?

    [quote=}

    Not true, we're just more intelligent.[/quote]

    Agreed
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:True or False?

    I completely messed up that quote.

    Anyway;

    Celerly, every day, for lunch it is then :D
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    blobbyh wrote:
    Bugger, I've made your mistake too... the newly coined phrase a Baggyballsup...

    What is it they say? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?

    :roll:
  • System
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    Re:True or False?

    False - negative calories are a myth.

    Scott.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:True or False?


    Surely you can eat and exercise and thus burn off more than you consume?

    Robert - we need a guineapig.

    :wink:
  • System
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    Re:True or False?

    I have a dance mat at mum and dads for the playstation and one program is really good cos it tells you how many calories you burn with each dance. After each dance I burn about 4 calories.

    .

    :shock:

    .

  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Wow - that many!

  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Yep. It's awful. I got on it like 'this is going to be great, no proper exercise ever again!' I was expecting to burn about 50 calories per dance :oops:
  • System
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    It's more likely to be 4 calories per minute.

    Scott.
  • System
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    Re:True or False?

    IIRC, then theoretically you would expend more calories extracting the energy from celery than you would receive. So your body doesn't bother: the chemical processes of digestion won't work because the reaction won't be 'energetically favourable'. I suppose the energy used in chewing counts for something, but very little. Otherwise it'll just pass through.

    As for the calories per dance thing, have you input your weight in it? When you move, the calories you expend are proportional to your weight: it takes more energy to move a heavier body. If the computer thinks you're a lot lighter or heavier than you are, it won't register the calories properly- i once told a treadmill I weighed 175kg (I meant 175lbs- I didn't notice it was in metric!)

  • System
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    Re:True or False?


    I have a Garmin satelite watch which I wear when running. It accurately measures the distance by satelite.

    If I enter my weight etc, it can also calculate the calories used.

    It will also track my route and guide me home if I becomed weakened by the loss of energy :cry:

    I think, for average routes (not too hilly), it's about 100 calories a mile. So for a long race, say a half marathon, I use more than I put in. I have energy drinks etc. But they're more mineral than calorific.

    Although, within minutes of me crossing the line, it's all wasted!

    :oops:

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