Energy Expenditure Chart
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1Energy 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.
Calories Burned
Type of Exercise
Foods
Calories
Per Hour
Baseball
270
Small bag of Hot Cheetos
170
Walking
280
20 gummy bears
175
(3 miles per hour)
Dancing
370
6 Oreos
320
Cycling
Homemade BBQ chicken
450
350
sandwich
(12 miles per hour)
Jogging
Whole wheat pasta w/veggies
500
400
(5 miles per hour)
(about 2 cups)
10-piece breaded chicken
Basketball
580
450
tenders
Large candy bar (chocolate,
Swimming
500
510
caramel, peanuts)
Bacon cheeseburger
Boxing
620
740
(fast food)
Fettuccine alfredo pasta
Soccer
680
800
(about 2 cups)
Running
2 Shredded beef tacos with
700
450
cheese
(6.5 miles per hour)
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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