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a unit of energy most commonly known as a measure of potential weight gain the body gets from food

I switched from sodas and candy to water and low-calorie snacks.

calorie = a unit of energy most commonly known as a measure of the potential weight gain the body gets from food

Just because they offer a supersized 64-ounce Big Gulp and 1,250-calorie, 5-cup restaurant plate of spaghetti and meatballs doesn't mean that's the amount you should eat.
Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma

calorie = a unit of energy most commonly known as a measure of the potential weight gain the body gets from food

Consider: for every one hundred calories of heat generated by exercise [speed] the body evaporates about six ounces of perspiration.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
But despite this apparent munificence, the meat he'd been killing was very lean, and he was consuming fewer calories than he was burning.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
They were mostly a lot of calories under gray suits, a lot of talk behind bright ties, and a lot of coarse laughter.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
I like to believe I burn up calories just thinking.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
For sure that's the direction the calorie count is going.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
Spent calories orbited, raising temperatures.
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
No matter how many calories he devoured, he always burned more.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
Burn off loads of calories and then return home to an energizing breakfast of oats and freshly squeezed orange juice.
Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
It was clear that the action of the caloric had been imperfect or unequal.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Gold-Bug
Frozen yogurt may be low in calories but not if you eat five tubs of it.
ZZ Packer -- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
He probably burned about six million calories.
Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
Not living on eighteen hundred calories a day, I take it, which is the subject of that order he cited.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
There were no calories or vitamins in coffee and it was of no use to them.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
After all, I've lost a lot of weight in the arena, I need some extra calories.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
If you don't have time to eat, and there's no other food on the plane, a package of peanuts and Bloody Mary mix are six hundred calories."
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
His daughters would never have presented him with a copy of Calorie Counters, the 1-2-3 Way to an All-New You.
Gish Jen -- Typical American
So I leaned over and gave her a high-caloric kiss, with mayonnaise, and let her be.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road

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