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What it takes to work off a snack

 

  Product Serving size, calories Activity to work it off
Häagen-Dazs Sticky Toffee Pudding
 Häagen-Dazs
Sticky Toffee Pudding 		½ cup
300 calories 		55 minutes of golf, carrying clubs
Häagen-Dazs Fat-Free Raspberry Sorbet
 Häagen-Dazs
Fat-Free Raspberry Sorbet 		½ cup
120 calories 		22 minutes of golf, carrying clubs
Plain bagel
 Plain bagel 320 calories 88 minutes of ballroom dancing
Kraft Philadelphia regular cream cheese
 Regular cream cheese 1 tbsp
45 calories 		37 minutes of sitting, watching TV
Lay's Classic potato chips
 Lay's Classic potato chips 1 oz.
150 calories 		16 minutes of running at 5 mph
McDonald's Caesar salad, no dressing
 McDonald's Caesar salad, no dressing 90 calories 20 minutes of walking at 3.5 mph
Newman's Own Creamy Caesar Dressing
 Newman's Own Creamy Caesar Dressing 2 tbsp
170 calories 		37 minutes of walking at 3.5 mph
Dunkin Donuts corn muffin
 Dunkin Donuts corn muffin 510 calories 70 minutes of shoveling snow
Celery
 Celery, medium stalk 10 calories 9 minutes of sleeping
Note: Numbers (rounded) are for a 160-pound person.
Source: Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2000.
Photographs by Russell Smith
Posted: January 2009 — Consumer Reports Magazine issue: February 2009