How much excercise for this much food

How much excercise for this much food

An interesting article in Womens Health magazine showed the following amounts of exercise required to burn up an amount of food. You may want to develop a taste for organic carrots.

If you eat this... you need to do this...

If you Eat Brisk Walking For Jogging For Aerobics For
1 banana 16 mins 9.5 mins 10 mins
1 apple 12 mins 7 mins 8 mins
Raisins (50g) 32 mins 29 mins 49 mins
1 carrot 2.5 mins 2 mins 2.5 mins
1 potato 16 mins 9.5 mins 10 mins
Chicken Salad 34 mins 20 mins 24 mins
Fish and Chips 114 mins 68 mins 74 mins
1 meat pie 92 mins 53 mins 68 mins
2 slices of pizza 87 mins 50 mins 66 mins
1 brownie 48 mins 29 mins 32 mins
1 can soft drink 33 mins 19 mins 25 mins
1 beer (375 ml) 28 mins 16 mins 19 mins
1 glass of wine (150 ml) 21 mins 12 mins 15 mins
A large juice-bar juice (650 ml) 64 mins 37 mins 42 mins

Bunch of Carrots

Eating Raw Carrots

100 g of carrots supplies 130 kJ. A fraction of your daily kJ intake. You can check the amount of kJs recommended for you. Note the calculation is sensitive to your daily general activity from Very Sedentary to Extremely active.

Imagine the weekly benefit of substituting a cake or brownie with a raw carrot.

Carrots also make a great base for cooking.

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