We all are fond of eating junk food as they are tantalizing in all aspects. But have you ever wondered how many calories you are consuming in each junk food? So how long does it take to burn junk food? Many studies were conducted to find out whether the people who are consuming junk food know about their caloric count. Some restaurants do not post their calorie count on the menus including KFC, Dunkin Donuts, McDonald’s and many others. If you are given the number of calories listed on your junk food item, you might assume that an immediate workout might help in losing the calories but this is not necessary.
For instance, if you consume a quarter portion of the large pizza, it has 449 calories. For which you need to walk for around 1 hour and 25 minutes or run for around 45 minutes to lose calories. If you are eating a bar of dairy milk then you are consuming 229 calories and you need to walk for 42 minutes or run for 22 minutes to burn calories.
Exercise an important part of your lifestyle which aids in burning calories but if you are eating unnecessary amounts of junk food then you are causing harm to your body and consuming a large number of calories. Exercise is the healthy form of burning calories but we do have the misconception on how much you need to exercise for burning it equal to the number of calories you are consuming.
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Adopt a healthy lifestyle and be consistent with it to maintain a healthy weight. Choose healthy foods that are good for your body and are less in the caloric count. For losing a single pound from your body, you need to burn 3500 calories or cut out this many calories from the food. Losing extra pounds from the body a difficult task but if you choose to stick to a healthy diet and perform exercises regularly then definitely it will raise your metabolism level and help in burning excess calories. You might have seen different charts that show the number of calories and how much you need to exercise to lose those calories. But the calories burn depending on the age, sex, metabolism, weight and many other factors. If your weight is less than it takes more time to burn a similar amount of calories in comparison to an obese individual. Have a look at the following junk foods which we commonly eat and how long does it take to burn these calories?
- Steak leads to the consumption of 1954 calories which you can burn by walking 21.96 miles.
- Fried chicken breast leads to the consumption of 444 calories which you can burn through 65 minutes on a stationary bike.
- Cinnabon leads to the consumption of 730 calories which you can burn through cycling for 80 minutes.
- Cheeseburger and fries lead to the consumption of 691 calories which you can burn through 141 minutes on the elliptical.
- Doughnut leads to the consumption of 225 calories which you can burn through 42 minutes of walk or run for around 21-22 minutes.
- French fries medium leads to the consumption of 510 calories which you can burn through the stair mill for 55 minutes.
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