CALORIE FACTS

It seems that weight loss diets are everywhere these days. Instead of burning calories, take a break and read some useless facts about them... you deserve it.

- You burn about 600 more calories walking on a golf course than if you drive a cart.
- The avocado has more calories than any other fruit.
- If you consume about 4500 calories in one sitting, you'll gain a pound.
- You are supposed to get about 2,000 calories a day. To reach this you could do any of the following:
lick 20,000 stamps
eat 3 Double Quarter Pounders with Cheese
eat 135 McDonalds sugar packets
eat 67 boxes of Tic Tacs
eat only about 50 fried grasshoppers
eat about 1100 chocolate chips
- You burn more calories eating celery than there are calories in celery.
- If you bang your head against a wall for an hour you just burned 150 calories.
- Walking sideways burns more calories than walking forward.
- You burn the same amount of calories sleeping for eight hours as you burn sitting for seven hours- 349.
- There are 780 calories in one pound of armadillo meat.
- You can burn about 2 and a half calories by melting an ice cube in your mouth.
- Food with the most calories... LARD!
- To learn more about lard go to your local library or click here.
- Surfing the Internet burns about 1.2 calories per minute, but if you took out the trash like you know you should you would burn 2.6 calories per minute.
- Laughing burns about 1.5 calories per minute.
- If you type for an hour you'll burn about 110 calories.