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- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+64How many minutes of masturbation is this equivalent to?
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38"Probably, like, three hours, at least."
I'm up for that - britkev1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Yeah but.....Mmmmmmmmmmmm Cookie!!!!
- Geekbeard, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24"How many minutes of masturbation is this equivalent to?"
Probably, like, three hours, at least. - pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13These calculators don't take into account the lingering effects of exercise, it boosts your metabolism for an extended period of time afterwards, increasing the amount of calories you burn while resting.
- chrismcelligott, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12C is for cookie!
- ryand789, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12This site will actually tell you how many minutes of sexual activity (or 600 other activites like chopping wood, sleeping, playing accordion) it will take to burn those calories:
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/calories.htm
LOL... it will take me 47 minutes of sex with "vigorous effort" to burn those 100 calories. - anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Ugh, you mean I have to live for a few HOURS? GOD this is so much effort.
- retral, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8*sigh* When are these sensationalized articles going to acknowledge the fact that some people have very fast metabolisms which turn a cookie in to ludicrous-speed?
- delgotit99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If you burned off all the food you ate you would be dead.
- postitnote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Or you could just live for a few hours, and your natural metabolism will use the energy from that cookie. Much easier for the average digg user.
- amahler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5
Something about "accordian" and "*****" in the same sentence cracks me up.
Question is, can you play both at the same time? :) - Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You should write a book, call it the "sorta-kill-yourself-a-little-bit diet".
- TheWalkingDude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Basically: Walking a mile and running a mile will burn the same amount of calories. Running a mile takes less time and works the cardiovascular system. Walking takes longer, but it will burn 80-90% of those calories from fat stores as opposed to glycogen which the body will have to replace for muscle contraction and overall health. The difference is the oxygen uptake/energy pathways (aerobic vs. anaerobic). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid_cycle
In regards to the comments about the calories we burn simply by living: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Calorie counting is stupid. Your body does not burn food in a bomb calorimeter, for one. For another, in case you haven't noticed, a large part of your food comes out the other end. That's calories you haven't absorbed. Calorimetry considers indigestible fiber as caloric content, since it burns. For another, simply sitting there keeping your body warm burns plenty of calories. Turn down the heat and you burn even more. Nor does your body convert everything you eat directly into body fat unless you exercise.
I'm not saying that having a general idea of your caloric intake is useless, but micromanaging it is. - sirloin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I havent exercised 18 minutes total over my entire life and have had plenty of cookies
if i exercised i would turn invisible.
Maybe they should say up to 18 minutes... because some of us cant gain weight even with weight gain shakes. - TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The article seems to forget that people are constantly burning calories just to keep their heart beating, so 18 minutes is an overestimate
- mikeylikesit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4well 24 hours of xmas thats 4 cookies an hour so that means i need to sit back down and check digg again and not worry about it
- Rezzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well I don't know about everyone else, but I'm more than happy to keep those 100 calories - it's only one time a year, folks!
- CrimsonBlur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This article, and articles like this, are stupid. You don't need to work out to burn off calories from one item of food you ate. By the time you got your shoes on to go to the gym you'd have burned it already most likely. The only time it'll affect you is if you pig out on a BUNCH of cookies all at once and your body doesn't need to burn it all, then it's stored, and even then you don't necessarily have a problem. There are way more factors involved in getting fat vs. being fit than if you eat a few cookies and ***** every now and then.
- pbjorge12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3But doing both at the same time has been shown to improve fat loss...
http://www.exrx.net/FatLoss/WT%26End.html - captainsqually, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3so we have to burn off every single calorie we intake? news to me
- tbadge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Eat the damn cookie if you want it.
The biggest problem I see with people try to lose weight is they completely cut out junk food. As long as you know how to eat healthy and actually put it to practice, one cookie will not make you fat. Learn moderation and stop with the useless articles.
People are so worried about how long it will take to burn off what they eat. Go to a dietician, figure out how many calories you should be getting a day, and setup a meal plan that you would enjoy. And you know what, eat a damn cookie every once in a while. - drizek, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9fap fap fap fap...
- krakkinem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In the past month or so I've eaten about 2 1/2 packages of Oreos, 2 dozen chocolate chip cookies, 1 dozen sugar cookies, 3 packages of Little Debbie brownies, and about a dozen Fig Newtons. And that's just the "baked goods" category. And usually my only exercise is walking outside to smoke! Had to get that off my chest, cause it's been kinda hurting lately for some reason...
- Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Whew, good thing I only ate brownies at tonight's Christmas party!
- webguy2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How many hours of Wii sports is all that equivalent to? That's about all the exercise I'll end up getting.
- tito13kfm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Articles like this make my blood boil, and my left arm tingle, also I taste copper...
- Chrissilvanet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3***** article.
- VioletArrows, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2But he's summarizing a book, so who knows, it's most likely at the beginning of the book how the author came about those numbers. Hopefully he'd know to factor in the calorie burn of just being alive.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So is everyone assuming that cookies are all the same caloric value?
The comments seem that way. But seriously: a cookie made of wheat and a small bit of honey for sweetness is going to have far less calories than a cookie with say: peanut butter, chocolate, butter, eggs, frigging caramel, a bit of malt powder, m and m candies and let's say...pretzels in it {c'mon huge corporation, make that described candy}. - Ystig, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is only shocking if one is subject to the delusion that one isn't burning calories all the time, regardless of whether one is going out of one's way to exercise or not. Calculating one's calorie consumption without considering base energy needs (i.e., "one cookie means 18 minutes of exercise") is idiotic. More accurately, one cookie means 18 minutes of exercise, or 1 hour of existing as a living, breathing human being, or maybe even a lazy half our bike ride you were going to do anyway and enjoy for its own sake. So long as you aren't already fulfilling your calorie needs and consuming snack foods in *excess* of those needs, you're fine, with or without a treadmill, or an exercise bike. This article's logic seems to presume that we are always already consuming food equivalent to our base needs, and things like cookies are consumed in inherent excess, which they don't need to be.
- fershizzle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3thats ok....i'm not an avid cokie eater, i prefer tacos
- positron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@sirloin
I hate you. - spootwo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2These kinds of articles make self conscious women feel bad at Christmas parties. Then we end up having to convince our own friends that it's ok if they eat that cheescake, and don't forget to remind them that they're beatiful. All this stress about calories...it's only a problem if you eat too many things in one sitting, otherwise you're fine, have a cookie!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i agree. with the last guy, i lifted for 10 weeks with a lot of muscle gain with little fat loss. I am a skinny guy but have a beer belly ( damn college! ) and lifting got me a few inches on my muscles but didn't lose any fat.
Next quarter i'm going to do much more cardio with a lighter weight lifting regime. Hopefully I will lose the stubborn fat.
Oh yea, eating well is much more important than excerise. So.. no cookies for me : ( - Toast1185, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It depends actually. For most people, swimming gives you a better work out then walking or running. The reason behind this is that you simply aren't good enough at it and as a result a lot of extra muscles get used unnecessarily. Swimming is a much more complex set of motions, but when done right (like an Olympic swimmer) burns significantly less calories than running (I suppose that would be per unit of time)
- Tabris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bush is an active jogger and is up at 5AM every morning. He's in great shape, regardless of everything else he does.
- jerr0328, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I ate a bunch of cookies today and I did not just inflate like a balloon. I've eaten an entire rack of baby back ribs and I'm still skinny as hell. It's really all about metabolism. So we fast-metabolizers get stuck with "low fat low cal!" stuff when we're trying to put on a few pounds to be able to stand up to high winds and keep people from trying to pick you up.
- radu79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@sirloin
Maybe you should exercise.
I had a similar problem, not being able to gain weight no matter how much I ate. Once I started exercising (3 times a week at the gym) and taking protein drinks (I took Boost, you can find them at Kmart, CVS, etc.), I gained 30 pounds in just a few months. - sirloin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if you drink cold water you body actually has to burn calories to heat it back to body temp
just to raise the temp of an 8oz glass of water from 63f to body temp wil l cost you .25 calories..
ok maybe you need to drink a lot of cold water to burn off that cinabun - teddyrux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ chrismcelligott
That's good enough for me. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Good thing I can play accordion like a *****!
Playing Accordion can not be equaled to Violin/Viola etc. Carrying something heavy, and pulling in and out is much harder than pulling a bow. I know, I play both. - tito13kfm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1With a name like chron.com and an article about cookies I feel betrayed....
- barakatx2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so if we eat a cookie we are ready for 18 minutes of a game of sports or something? sweet!
- Cojawfee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I usually just clear all my cookies at once. And clear my cache as well.
- JrGhoull, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i took a nutrition course this past summer and the guy said that weight lifting does alot more for u than running. i personally, though get alot out of weight lifitng and can vouch for it being a good way to build up muscle (and i guess calories) have had alot of success with running.
- naughtymonkey69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thats why I like to replace cookies as a snack and make them a meal instead.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What, chron doesn't make you want cookies? ;)
- andrewry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder if the "18 minutes of exercise" is to burn off everything that the cookie put in you, not just the excess. I'm sure if it's the former, then sure, but your body uses most of the stuff in a cookie, so you wouldn't need a full 18 minutes to get rid of the excess you get.
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