Those Holiday Calories Are Hard to Burn Off

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Here's some food for thought: If you think you're going to exercise to burn off holiday treats, you might have to do more than you think, according to Karen Collins, a dietitian for the American Institute for Cancer Research.

I read the AICR's press release about the same time a tray of holiday sweets showed up in our office. It wasn't exactly good news to find out that each of the cookies we were polishing off were around 60 to 120 calories. A person weighing 180 pounds, walking at the rate of 3 miles per hour, would have to walk about 15 minutes to burn the calories for each cookie. Rich desserts, often around 500 calories per serving, would take an hour's walk to burn off.

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Those Holiday Calories Are Hard to Burn Off

But it's the time of season when everyone gives and gets goodies, and it's hard to turn them down. It's no wonder most Americans gain up to five pounds b...

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