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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
calorie
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
food/alcohol/calorie etc intake
▪ Sickness may develop from inadequate fluid intake.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
daily
▪ These recommendations will guide you to your own ideal daily calorie limits for successful weight loss.
▪ Initial management consists of reducing total calories and limiting carbohydrates to 40 percent of daily calories.
▪ To account for the Fibre-Filler, subtract 200 from your daily calorie total and add 15g to your daily fibre total.
▪ Aerobic activity does not increase total daily calorie expenditure.
▪ This does not mean, though, that it is the ideal daily calorie quota for every F-Plan dieter.
▪ But strength training increases activity all day long, increasing total daily calories used.
▪ In the next chapter you will find guidance on your own ideal daily calorie ration.
▪ She shrank so quickly because she cut her daily calorie intake from more than 5,000 to 2,000.
extra
▪ We're not going to forbid it, but remember that the extra calories are going to slow down your weight loss.
▪ Just 200 extra calories each day add up to one-half pound of extra body fat each week.
▪ And so it deposits the extra calories it does not need as fat.
▪ Exercise also helps maintain muscle mass and burn extra calories so you get to enjoy more food without getting fat.
▪ This would help to account for some of the extra calories expelled in the faeces of those consuming fibre-rich foods.
fat
▪ Added to this is the recent discovery of the effect on the body of fat calories compared with carbohydrate calories.
▪ Check for fat grams, calories, recycled materials.
▪ Research has proved that we can eat more carbohydrate calories than fat calories and still lose weight!
▪ Beyond fat and calories, consider a few other nutrition issues as you choose lunch and dinner.
▪ In other words a fat calorie was exactly the same as a carbohydrate or a protein calorie.
▪ Marchello said ostrich meat tastes like beef, is comparable in protein, but lower in fat, calories and cholesterol.
▪ Since then, scientists have proved that fat calories are much more fattening than carbohydrate calories.
▪ This is because the body uses carbohydrate calories in a different way from fat calories.
high
▪ Most are mayonnaise-based and quite high in calories.
▪ To offset the perception that dairy foods are high in calories, low-fat cheeses have become state-of-the-art.
▪ Puddings, sweets and chocolate are very high in calories and, of course, sugar.
▪ School nutrition program-information on the preschool lunch is provided; the meal described appears to be high in calories 11.
▪ Most cheeses are crammed with fat and horribly high in calories.
▪ All high-calorie foods are fatty, and all high calorie meals are fatty.
▪ Fats are very high in calories and so eating too many fat-rich foods could cause weight gain.
▪ Fibre Alcohol is also very high in calories and can contribute a great deal to a person's weight.
low
▪ Its appeal is its ease of spreading and lower calorie content volume for volume.
▪ Though prawns are low in calories, they are then smothered in a dressing loaded with them.
▪ But how good are these low-calorie options?
▪ And multinationals must conform to national laws and regulations on additives, flavourings, colourings and artificial low-calorie sweeteners.
▪ In a peculiar twist, large numbers of Western women mimicked Eastern women in low calorie intake.
▪ Light bread means low-calorie brands such as Nimble or St Michael's Lite bread.
▪ The dishes are low in calories and fat.
total
▪ Initial management consists of reducing total calories and limiting carbohydrates to 40 percent of daily calories.
▪ Aerobic activity does not increase total daily calorie expenditure.
▪ Older adults rest more during the day, so they spend the same total calories.
▪ But strength training increases activity all day long, increasing total daily calories used.
▪ Limit saturated fat to 7 percent-10 percent of total calories daily.
■ NOUN
content
▪ These days most major manufacturers of non-alcoholic beverages produce special drinks of negligible calorie content for the weight-conscious.
▪ Imitation margarines with half the fat content required by the definition have half the calorie content of regular margarines.
▪ This is simply because the calorie content of these foods is so amazingly high.
▪ Tests indicate that the increased calorie content of the faeces amounts to nearly ten percent when people follow high-fibre diets.
▪ The calorie content of this diet is around 1400 calories a day for women.
▪ Another difference between the effects of a morning and evening meal of equal size and calorie content has been found.
▪ I never detail calorie content in my diets because it isn't necessary.
count
▪ We turned to the freezer case to look for the desserts that wouldn't kill our calorie count.
▪ The calorie counts are given after each item, and all the portions are average size unless exact measurements are stated.
▪ The calorie count - 452 in every 100 grams - stays the same too.
▪ Again, the calorie counts are given against each item and at the end of each meal.
diet
▪ A colleague, Sarah, recently graduated, decided to go on a very low calorie diet.
▪ For example, imagine the situation where you have been on a strict, very low calorie diet for a month or so.
intake
▪ Most people try to do this by restricting their calorie intake, usually by cutting it in half.
▪ In a peculiar twist, large numbers of Western women mimicked Eastern women in low calorie intake.
▪ Many are highly adept at adding up their calorie intake.
▪ So this should help you in keeping the calorie intake low.
▪ The serum concentration of IGF-I and growth velocity both improved with increased calorie intake.
▪ So by rationing these foods you cut calorie intake.
▪ Poor souls, all they were doing was cutting calorie intake - the hard way.
▪ You're effectively cheating your body by reducing your calorie intake and your body sends out different responses because it's confused.
mayonnaise
▪ Hellmann's have introduced five new salad dressings to tickle our tastebuds which compare favourably calorie-wise with lower calorie mayonnaise.
■ VERB
add
▪ This should add between 70-125 calories.
▪ For most people, the sugary snacks simply add calories, while making you want to eat more.
▪ It is quite insane to imagine that you are going to sit in a restaurant adding up calories and grams of fibre.
▪ Many are highly adept at adding up their calorie intake.
▪ The second factor is less obviously helpful at first glance but what it adds up to is calorie saving!
▪ If you are dieting on 850 calories a day, choose meals adding up to 450 calories a day.
burn
▪ In these circumstances, it should be roughly assumed that you would be burning up around 2,000 calories a day.
▪ Exercise also helps maintain muscle mass and burn extra calories so you get to enjoy more food without getting fat.
▪ This gives your body more time to burn up the calories.
▪ If you burn fewer calories, you have to eat less.
▪ By midlife our bodies become less efficient at burning up calories.
▪ Women - rather unfairly I feel - tend to burn up calories less efficiently than men.
▪ Build in more hill work as it burns twice as many calories.
consume
▪ People consumed fewer calories without even trying to do so.
▪ We consume these calories in the form of food and use them up in maintaining the body's functions and movements.
▪ If you are losing weight, then you are not consuming sufficient calories daily.
▪ We should always consume sufficient calories to keep the metabolism buoyant.
contain
▪ With still more additional dietary fibre, 32g a day, the stools were found to contain 210 calories on average.
▪ Its main advantage is that it contains fewer calories than margarIne.
▪ Each protein and carbohydrate gram you eat contains 4 calories.
▪ And depending on the organization presenting the news, the meal may contain plenty of empty calories.
▪ Carbohydrates contain 3.75 calories per gram whereas fat contains about nine calories.
▪ A 5. 5-ounce baked potato without toppings contains about 120 calories and no fat.
▪ The average bagel contains 190 calories, no cholesterol and only one gram of fat.
cut
▪ So by rationing these foods you cut calorie intake.
▪ Heloise has figured out little ways to cut back on calories, she says.
▪ She shrank so quickly because she cut her daily calorie intake from more than 5,000 to 2,000.
eat
▪ Research has proved that we can eat more carbohydrate calories than fat calories and still lose weight!
▪ Feeling satisfied, they stopped eating after fewer calories.
▪ Each protein and carbohydrate gram you eat contains 4 calories.
▪ As with fat-free products and artificial sweeteners, people will probably compensate for olestra by eating more calories elsewhere in their diets.
▪ To lose weight really effectively, you need to eat fewer calories than you expend each day and increase your activity level.
▪ She realised that previously she must have been eating many more calories than she'd thought.
▪ There is no danger of it slowing down if we eat around 1500 calories a day.
increase
▪ In simple terms, by being more active you can increase the amount of calories you use.
▪ Aerobic activity does not increase total daily calorie expenditure.
▪ If you need to increase the number of calories, carbohydrate is the best choice.
▪ But strength training increases activity all day long, increasing total daily calories used.
▪ But once you start adding a high-fat cereal or chocolate, you are increasing the calories without appreciably increasing the nutritional value.
▪ To increase calories, double up, but be careful.
provide
▪ Half a pint of skimmed milk provides just 100 calories, while other kinds of milk can provide twice this number.
▪ The latter provides maximum calorie burning and conditions the body to continue to burn fat hours after completing the workout.
▪ Don't buy silver-top and skim off the cream yourself, because this doesn't provide an equivalent calorie saving.
▪ It provides 490 calories, which is doable, even for older women.
▪ The diet plan provides approximately 1,000 calories a day.
▪ Protein should provide 30 percent of calories, fat should provide another 30 percent, and carbohydrates should provide 40 percent.
▪ It has been scientifically estimated that a pound of your own body fat provides approximately 3,500 calories.
▪ A diet rich in fibre tends also to be low in fat content because carbohydrate foods provide many of the calories.
reduce
▪ You're effectively cheating your body by reducing your calorie intake and your body sends out different responses because it's confused.
▪ Initial management consists of reducing total calories and limiting carbohydrates to 40 percent of daily calories.
▪ The F-Plan also reduces your calorie intake in order to allow you to shed weight at sufficient speed.
serve
▪ The secret to keeping the weight down and energy up is to serve meals that are calorie intensive.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
damn the consequences/expense/calories etc
▪ At the outset of our friendship it was always Brian who exploded and damn the consequences.
▪ Spurrier says whatever is on his always-racing mind, even in victory and figures damn the consequences.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Carbohydrates contain 3.75 calories per gram whereas fat contains about nine calories.
▪ Fat represented 37 % of the calories consumed daily.
▪ Feeling satisfied, they stopped eating after fewer calories.
▪ Just 200 extra calories each day add up to one-half pound of extra body fat each week.
▪ Limit to 7 percent-10 percent of total calories.
▪ This was based on subtracting the calories consumed in food from the calories required to keep the body going.
▪ Until recently it had always been assumed that all calories are the same, regardless of where they came from.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calorie

Calorie \Cal"o*rie\, n. [F., fr. L. calor heat.] (Physics) The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0[deg] to 1[deg]. Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
calorie

1866, from French calorie, from Latin calor (genitive caloris) "heat," from PIE *kle-os-, suffixed form of root *kele- (1) "warm" (cognates: Latin calidus "warm," calere "be hot;" Sanskrit carad- "harvest," literally "hot time;" Lithuanian silti "become warm," silus "August;" Old Norse hlær, Old English hleow "warm").\n

\nIn scientific use, largely replaced 1950 by the joule. As a unit of energy, defined as "heat required to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius" (the small or gram calorie), but also as "heat required to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 degree Celsius" (the large calorie or kilocalorie).

Wiktionary
calorie

n. 1 (''physics and chemistry, obsolete'') The gram calorie or small calorie, a non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to approximately 4.2 joules. This unit was widely used in chemistry and physics, being the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C. 2 (context nutrition English) Kilogram calorie or large calorie. A unit of energy 1000 times larger than the gram calorie. It is equivalent to the gram kilocalorie, approximately 4.2 kilojoules.

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WordNet
calorie

  1. n. unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure [syn: gram calorie, small calorie]

  2. a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food [syn: kilogram calorie, kilocalorie, large calorie, nutritionist's calorie]

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Wikipedia
Calorie

Calories are units of energy. Various definitions exist but fall into two broad categories.

  • The small calorie or gram calorie (symbol: cal) is the approximate amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius at a pressure of one atmosphere.
  • The large calorie or kilogram calorie (symbol: Cal), also known as the food calorie and similar names, is defined in terms of the kilogram rather than the gram. It is equal to small calories, 1 kilocalorie (symbol: kcal).

Although these units are part of the metric system, they have been superseded in the International System of Units by the joule. One small calorie is approximately 4.2 joules (so one large calorie is about 4.2 kilojoules). The factor used to convert calories to joules at a given temperature is numerically equivalent to the specific heat capacity of water expressed in joules per kelvin per gram or per kilogram. The precise conversion factor depends on the definition adopted.

In spite of its non-official status, the large calorie is still widely used as a unit of food energy. The small calorie is also often used for measurements in chemistry, although the amounts involved are typically recorded in kilocalories.

The calorie was first defined by Nicolas Clément in 1824 as a unit of heat energy, and entered French and English dictionaries between 1841 and 1867. The word comes from Latin calor meaning "heat".

Calorie (disambiguation)

A calorie is an old unit of energy, now superseded by the joule.

Calorie may also mean:

  • Small calorie (cal), an old unit of energy, now superseded by the joule
  • Large calorie or kilocalorie (Cal or kcal), a common unit of food energy
  • Calories (story) a 1951 novel by L. Sprague deCamp
  • Calorie Kun Vs. Moguranian, a video game
  • Calorie restriction, a dietary regime
  • Calorie count laws for restaurant chains
  • Empty calorie, calorie provided by food without other essential nutrients
  • CalorieMate, a Japanese brand of energy-supplement foods
  • CalorieKing, a company offering weight loss products and services
  • Good Calories, Bad Calories a 2007 book by Gary Taubes
  • CR Society International, formerly Calorie Restriction Society
  • CALERIE, a food research program by the Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Usage examples of "calorie".

A one-quarter cup serving of prepared agave provides thirty calories and more calcium than does a half glass of milk.

The reason for this is simple: Many people are trying to watch their calories as well as their carbs, and calling their attention to those dishes in this book that are particularly low in calories seemed helpful.

French take in about as many calories as we do in the United States, but they consume more cholesterol and saturated fats because they eat four times as much butter as we and more than twice as much cheese and lard.

The excess insulin has a disastrous effect on our waistlines: it causes our fat cells to store extra calories, whether from proteins, fats, or carbohydrates, in the form of body fat.

Eat about seventy calories in the form of healthy monounsaturated fats.

Canyon Ranch Nutrition Philosophy is strict, though not as draconian as Pritikin: 60 percent carbohydrates, mainly complex, 20 percent fat, 20 percent protein, 1,000 to 1,200 calories a day, high fiber, no caffeine, oils high in polyunsaturates, two grams of sodium, almost no refined flour.

I feel that the most important factor for Okinawan longevity is that they consume 20 to 40 percent fewer calories than the Japanese.

Although the Okinawans eat fewer calories, they have the highest consumption of soy protein of any population in the world.

I have told you before that at these altitudes you simply must force fluids and 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.