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>People don't realize what a trivial amount of calories working out burns. I think it's more that people don't realize how stunningly high calorie counts for "
by smackfu 12y ago
>People don't realize what a trivial amount of calories working out burns.
I think it's more that people don't realize how stunningly high calorie counts for "bad" food can be. Like a cookie might take 20 minutes of exercise to burn off the calories, but that's more about the cookie than about the exercise.
- Someone1234 12y agoEven burning through a single Granny Smith Apple takes ten minutes. Half a cup of dried cherries, dried pears, or raisins, would take over 20-25 minutes. All of these are pretty natural. Undeniably there are artificial foods with insanely high calorific levels for either their volume or weight. But all foods are inherently hard to burn off via exercise. Some are just worse than others.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoPartially because those foods aren't really 'natural'. They are the result of 1000's of years of human selection for sugar and carbos. We've genetically engineered nearly every fruit and grain, the hard way, by crosspollination and grafting and selection through the centuries. We've made them very calorie-laden, because that helped us survive in harsher olden times.
- smackfu 12y agoYes, taking a sweet fruit and removing all the liquid leaves you with something that is remarkably unhealthy by weight, despite being "natural." But that just means that eating a lot of dried fruits and nuts and such is not a great diet choice.