“It is important that people understand the true energy cost of food to encourage some restraint in their eating, and perhaps make them think twice about something like the yule log — or reduce the size of the piece they cut”
Or they could set off on a six-hour Boxing Day jog to lose the 3,475 calories gained from the traditional meal.Amanda Daley, professor of behavioural medicine at Loughborough University, calculated the energy intake in a typical festive menu and the amount of exercise required to get rid of it.
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