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How much excercise for this much food

Nov.13, 2009

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.