calories

And the bad news..?

A recent commentary from the Journal of the American Dietetic Association outlines the concept of "energy gap" and how it relates to weight loss and weight maintenance. The term energy gap was coined to estimate the change in energy balance (intake and expenditure) behaviors required to achieve and sustain weight loss in individuals and populations.

We just got a press release from Coke stating that they will be printing Calorie information on the front of all their products worldwide by 2011.

Next time you're out and about, think twice before grabbing that big cooling frappuchino to go - it may have more calories than your dinner.

The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) found that most iced coffees contain at least 200 calories - with several over 400 calories.

The worst? A venti (large) Dark Berry Mocha Frappuchino from Starbucks: 561 calories.

Perhaps you've been eating healthily, switching your usual fast-food lunch for a salad from a supermarket.

If you haven't been seeing the results you'd like, it could be because that innocent-sounding salad contains more calories and fat than a Big Mac.

We all know the guy who goes to McDonald's, orders a number seven with Diet Coke, plus a Big Mac and hot apple pie on the side.

Now, maybe he'd rethink that order if he knew the INSANE amount of calories he was stuffing down his throat. That's the idea at least.

Last week, major U.S. chain restaurants announced plans to disclose calorie count on their menus.

Unfortunately, early indications aren't good...

As of 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) projects 1.6 billion adults, ages 15 and up, were overweight and 400 million adults were obese, worldwide.

And the latest rage to help curb obesity is printing calories on the menus of fast food restaurants. And now, Great Britain is getting in on the act.

Unless you're some sort of superstar athlete, you can't keep eating like you did as a kid. And a new study shows consciously eating less food as you age promotes long-term weight-loss.

But the dude's diet leaves a lot to be desired. You wouldn't think 12,000 calories of mayonnaise, white bread and chocolate chip pancakes would be part of an Olympian's diet.

And apparently it isn't.

Calorie counting. Just reading those two words probably made your face wrinkle up a bit with discontent. Who the heck has time in their day to calculate how many calories are in each meal they consume, let alone their total caloric intake for a day, week, month, etc.? Besides, calories aren't the real problem anyway, right? Um...not exactly.

As a growing number of states adopt the practice of making fast-food restaurants list calories on their menus, Congress continues in its struggle to implement this obesity-combating tactic nationwide, reports Reuters Health.