Losers' count

Usage examples of calories.

Even in quite mild weather half the calories you burn go to keep your body warm.

While it may not have been much in the way of taste, it was probably very high in calories judging by the obesity of some of the other prisoners.

Letting fear-nausea overwhelm her had been stupid, a waste of calories she might not be able to replace at once.

The hot salt taste of the blood, and strength flowing back into her shivering body as the calories translated into warmth.

The marriage manuals, I was discovering, often focused on the obvious, and I already pos-sessed the sophistication not to wear rollers, a face mask, and flannel pyjamas to bed or devour onions by the plateful--even though they are low in calories and make a pleasing change from naked lettuce.

She seemed not to spare a thought for calories or cholesterol as she smothered her potato in sour cream and lathered the bread with butter.

Among these Ohloni, a diet of four thousand calories per day was not uncommon.

Before the advent of controlled fire, your fledgling ancestors were limited to the energy equivalent of eighteen hundred calories a day.

Now you have at your disposal at least a quarter million calories per day per person.

But when you add up all of the energy that goes into high-tech farmingthe gas, the oil, and all those chemicalseach American is seen to consume about two hundred fifty thousand calories per day.

After finding every superior hostelry clogged to the rafters with manufacturers and purveyors of excess calories, he had decided that he was lucky to find a room in any hotel at all.