How Long Does It Take To Burn Food In The Gym?

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Can you imagine that when reviewing the calories or carbohydrates of your purchase in the supermarket, in addition to seeing the nutritional values, you would read on the labels how long it would take you after losing what was ingested in the gym? "This pizza, 4 hours of treadmill … This chocolate bar, 22 minutes of jogging."

As the BBC notes, a new study suggests that this new system would help people eat less and encourage them to create healthier habits to fight obesity. Once you read the price it would take to burn that food, you would think twice before consuming it.

According to scientists at Loughborough University, this type of label would help cut at least 200 calories on average per person in daily consumption. Although it may seem small, the reality is that according to the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, it would have a very notable impact on society.

Professor A manda Daley, director of the study, says: “What we want to achieve is to find different ways to help people make better decisions when choosing their food, in addition to encouraging them to be more physically active. By labeling the products with the amount of exercise it takes to consume those calories ingested, we are making it easy for people to understand what they are eating and push them to make better choices.”

Daley said that people would be in shock if we realized the amount of physical exercise that burning calories from certain foods and snacks entails.

We know for a fact that people underestimate the number of calories in the food they eat. For example, if you buy a chocolate muffin and it contains 500 calories, that equals 50 minutes of going for a run. We are not talking about diets, we are talking about explaining to the consumer that there is an energy cost for each food so they can ask themselves: Do I really want that piece of cake if I know that to burn it I need to run for two hours afterwards? Is it really worth it?”

Another thing well known is that small changes make big differences.

Now it remains to be seen if any food chain or brand will dare to add that information to their product labels so that the studies are verified in real day-to-day practice.

And you? Do you think this experience would change something in your purchase of the supermarket?