Calories

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Calories

• A unit of ENERGY
• What calories do
• The number of calories in a food is a measure of
  how much potential energy that food possesses
• We burn calories through metabolic processes

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Calories in food FYI
The calories in these foods could

• 5 lbs of spaghetti
• 1 piece of cheesecake
• 217 Big Macs

• Brew a pot of coffee
• Light a bulb for 1.5 hours
• Drive a car 88 miles

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WOW! Calories!

• 3,500 EXTRA calories is stored as FAT (1 pound!)
• Burning 3,500 calories MORE that you eat converts
  that 1 pound of stored fat to ENERGY
• CALORIES IN CALORIES OUT to maintain or lose
  weight

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WATER VS. COKE

• 75 of Americans are chronically dehydrated!
• Lack of water is the 1 trigger of daytime
  hunger!
• 8-10 glasses of water a day can ease back and
  joint pain for 80 of sufferers!
• A mere 2 drop in body water can trigger fuzzy
  short-term memory trouble with basic math!

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WATER VS. COKE

• Drinking 5 glasses of water a day can decrease
  the risk of
• Colon cancer by 45
• Breast cancer by 79
• Bladder cancer by 50
• ARE YOU DRINKING THE AMOUNT OF WATER YOU SHOULD
  EVERY DAY?

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COKE VS. WATER

• You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke it
  will be gone in TWO DAYS!
• To remove rust spots from chrome bumpers rub the
  bumper with a piece of tin foil dipped in Coke
• To clean corrosion from car batteries pour a can
  of Coke over the terminals to bubble away the
  corrosion

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COKE VS. WATER

• To remove grease from clothes empty a can of
  Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent
  run through the regular cycle
• Coke will clean road haze from a windshield
• The highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in
  the trunk to remove BLOOD from highways after an
  accident!

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FYI

• The active ingredient in Coke is Phosphoric Acid.
• Its pH is 2.8 and can dissolve a nail in about 4
  days
• Phosphoric acid leaches calcium from bones
• To carry Coca-Cola syrup (concentrate) the
  commercial truck must use the Hazardous material
  sign!
• Now the question is
• WOULD YOU LIKE A GLASS OF WATER OR COKE?

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No more than 40g of sugar a day what?!

• Gatorade 20oz 35g
• Cranberry juice 16oz 68g
• Vitamin Water 20oz 32.5g
• Coke 20oz 67.5g
• Hawaiian Punch 20oz 72.5g

• Propel 16.9oz 4.5g
• G2 20oz 12g
• Water any oz 0g