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  • Yesterday I posted about an online toy that lets you estimate the calorie burns for different activities by entering your weight and the duration of the activity. It’s not great for getting specific numbers, but it helps to show the different levels of effort for different activities. Gina Kolata, in a 2007 article called Putting…

  • Here is a fun toy — a calculator of estimated calorie burns for hundreds of activities from Primus Partners, a logistics company. This is part of Fitness Partner, a set of pages with general health information and calculators, described as a “labor of love.” 🙂 True calorie expenditures depend on many things — including your…

  • Yes, Muscle Burns More Calories Than Fat But it’s not a big number. A pound of muscle burns about 6 calories per day – and a pound of fat burns a calorie or two per day. That fat burn may not sound like much, but it adds up to a lot more than many people…

  • So you’ve made a new commitment to eat less – or eat better – and now you need to figure out how to actually do it. One of the toughest things to learn is exactly how much you’re eating. Weighing and measuring everything is tiring, and we don’t eat at home all the time (although…