Calorie
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- noun
- /ˈkæləˌri/
- Specialized
:
caloría
- You need to take in fewer calories if you want to lose weight.
- consume calories
- calorie intake
- daily calories
So you have not absorbed all of the calorie content from those nuts.
- So you have not absorbed all of the calorie content from those nuts.
- Adding those things may actually be adding calories and sugar to the diet.
- So they found that the most filling food per calorie was plain boiled potatoes.
- And we can't explain that with really the amount of calories we're eating overall.
- It just gets people below their maintenance calories with relative ease.
- It's just a matter of like really restricting calories and then more cardio.
- So ingest sufficient calories for you and for your goals.
- Like counting calories is not normal nor healthy.
- And by the way, the old adage a calorie is a calorie is now officially dead.
- I don't, you know, count calories or whatever.
Examples
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To maintain a healthy lifestyle, it is important to understand how many calories are in your meals.
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The result is a table listing calorie and nutrition information.
Academic text (2011) -
Most of us know what a calorie actually is.
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Just burn more calories than you eat.
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No, I'm trying to watch my calories.
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But losing weight is about energy, calories in, calories out.
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You have to burn more calories than you ingest.
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Losing weight is a very simple factor of calories in calories out.
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So ingest sufficient calories for you and for your goals.
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Students collect the data for calories per serving from each cereal and make a box plot of the data.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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3.9
A unit showing how much energy food gives the body
The amount of energy that raises one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius, used to measure food energy
A measure of food energy equal to the heat needed to warm 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius
A unit of heat to raise one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius, often used for food energy
Compounds
- Archaic
A unit of heat to raise one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius, often used for food energy
- Specialized
A measure of food energy equal to the heat needed to warm 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius
- Archaic
A unit of heat equal to energy needed to raise 1 gram of water by 1°C at normal air pressure
- Specialized
Amount of heat that raises one gram of water by one degree Celsius at normal air pressure
Surface Forms
Etymology
Calorie comes from the Latin root calor, which means 'heat'. Scientists first used it for the small amount of 'heat' needed to raise water by one degree, so a calorie is now used to show how much energy or 'heat' food can give your body.