Energy Expenditure - Answers
Have you ever thought about how long you would need to exercise to burn the extra calories
you eat? Your body uses between 1000-2000 calories each day just to live, but what happens
to the additional foods you eat? The chart on the left shows how many calories a 160-pound
person burns during one hour of various activities. Keep in mind that if you weigh less than
that, you burn fewer calories; if you weigh more than that, you burn more calories. The chart
on the right shows the amount of calories in various foods.
Using these two charts, answer the questions below.
Type of Exercise
Calories Burned
Per Hour
Foods
Calories
Baseball
270
Small bag of Hot Cheetos
170
Walking
(3 miles per hour)
280
20 gummy bears
175
Dancing
370
6 Oreos
320
Cycling
(12 miles per hour)
450
Homemade BBQ chicken
sandwich
350
Jogging
(5 miles per hour)
500
Whole wheat pasta w/veggies
(about 2 cups)
400
Basketball
580
10-piece breaded chicken
tenders
450
Swimming
500
Large candy bar (chocolate,
caramel, peanuts)
510
Boxing
620
Bacon cheeseburger
(fast food)
740
Soccer
680
Fettuccine alfredo pasta
(about 2 cups)
800
Running
(6.5 miles per hour)
700
2 Shredded beef tacos with
cheese
450
Jumping rope
700
Chocolate Frappuccino (16 oz)
500
1. How long would you need to walk to burn the calories in a large candy bar?
__About 2 hours___________________________________________________________
2. How long would you need to jog to burn the calories in a small bag of Hot Cheetos?
__About 20 minutes__________________________________________________________
3. How long would you need to swim to burn the calories in a bacon cheeseburger?
__About 1 ½ hours___________________________________________________________
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