calories

Getting More Sleep Can Help Your Body Absorb Fewer Calories, Experiment Shows

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New research has identified a possible way of shedding calories without closely monitoring diets or doing more exercise – simply by spending a little more time in bed, in fact.   In an experiment with 80 overweight adults who usually slept fewer than 6.5 hours a night, adding an average of 1.2 hours of extra … Read more

Weight loss: Getting enough sleep may lower the amount of calories you eat

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When people who weren’t getting enough sleep took measures to sleep for longer, they ate fewer calories per day and lost weight without changes to their diet or exercise Health 8 February 2022 By Clare Wilson An extra hour of sleep helped some people lose weight Getty Images/Westend61/Kiko Jimenez Sleeping for about an hour longer … Read more

Why Aren’t All Calories Created Equal? A Dietitian Explains

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A calorie is a calorie is a calorie, at least from a thermodynamic standpoint. It’s defined as the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius (2.2 pounds by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit).   But when it comes to health and your body’s energy balance, not all … Read more

Here’s What You Really Should Know About ‘Negative-Calorie’ Foods, According to Experts

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The internet is full of quick-fix weight-loss hacks. One popular suggestion is to eat ‘negative-calorie’ foods such as celery, because you burn more energy eating and digesting the celery than you absorb.   Is it true that eating some foods makes us lose calories rather than gain them? And does eating these foods help weight loss? We … Read more