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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: exercise?
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Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 14:51:57 EST
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In article <5079@alice.uUCp> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>Is there an easy way to figure out how many calories are burned
>by a given amount of exercise, given that I can actually measure
>energy output?
>
>For example, suppose someone puts out 150 watts for 15 minutes.
>How many calories of intake are necessary to produce that much
>output?

Multiply watts by 9.481 * 10^-4 to obtain BTU/second.
Multiply BTU by 2.520 * 10^-1 to obtain kg calories.

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