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The Omnivore's Dilemma
- About 40 percent of their calories come directly from corn, mostly in the form of corn tortillas.†
Chpt 1.1
- Calories, like the calories in food, are units of energy.†
Chpt 1.3
- Calories, like the calories in food, are units of energy.†
Chpt 1.3
- On the industrial farm, it takes about ten calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calorie of food energy.†
Chpt 1.3
- On the industrial farm, it takes about ten calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calorie of food energy.†
Chpt 1.3
- Back then, the Naylor farm produced more than two calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil fuel energy invested.†
Chpt 1.3
- Back then, the Naylor farm produced more than two calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil fuel energy invested.†
Chpt 1.3
- It's the ultimate diet food -- food with no calories.†
Chpt 1.6
- It is actually cheaper to eat high-calorie, fatty, processed foods than whole foods.†
Chpt 1.7
- EXTRA CALORIES Behind our epidemic of obesity lies this simple fact: When food is abundant and cheap, people will eat more of it.†
Chpt 1.7
- Since 1977, an American's average daily intake of calories has jumped by more than 10 percent.†
Chpt 1.7
- Since we aren't exercising more, the calories end up being stored away in fat cells in our bodies.†
Chpt 1.7
- Where did all those cheap calories come from?†
Chpt 1.7
- Since 1970, farmers in the United States have managed to produce 500 additional calories per person every day.†
Chpt 1.7
- The average person needs about 2,000 calories a day, but that number varies greatly depending on your age, size, and amount of exercise.†
Chpt 1.7
- Where are those extra calories going?†
Chpt 1.7
- An awful lot of those extra corn calories are being eaten as high-fructose corn syrup.†
Chpt 1.7
- That's because if you count the calories, foods loaded with sugar and fat are the cheapest foods in the market.†
Chpt 1.7
- In a typical supermarket, one dollar could buy 1,200 calories of potato chips and cookies.†
Chpt 1.7
- The same dollar could only buy 250 calories of carrots and other whole vegetables.†
Chpt 1.7
- On the beverage aisle, you can buy 875 calories of soda for a dollar.†
Chpt 1.7
- But a dollar will only buy you 170 calories of fruit juice from concentrate.†
Chpt 1.7
- These numbers show why people with limited money to spend on food spend it on the cheapest calories they can find.†
Chpt 1.7
- It makes even more sense when you realize that those cheap calories reward our instincts for fat and sugar.†
Chpt 1.7
- The government says it wants you to eat healthy, then it makes sure that the cheapest calories in the supermarket are the unhealthiest.†
Chpt 1.7
- It's given us cheap corn sweeteners and hundreds of extra calories a day.†
Chpt 1.7
- In fact, the majority of calories in the "healthy" salad come from corn.†
Chpt 1.9
- Yet half of the 500 calories in a large order of fries come from the oil they're fried in.†
Chpt 1.9
- That means the source of those calories is not a potato farm but a field of corn or soybeans.†
Chpt 1.9
- Judith, Isaac, and I together consumed a total of 4,510 calories at our lunch, which is about two-thirds of what the three of us should eat in a day.†
Chpt 1.9
- To grow and process those 4,510 food calories took at least ten times as many calories of fossil energy, something like 1.†
Chpt 1.9
- To grow and process those 4,510 food calories took at least ten times as many calories of fossil energy, something like 1.†
Chpt 1.9
- Corn-based food does offer cheap calories, if you don't count the billions the government spends to support cheap corn.†
Chpt 1.9
- In the long run, however, these cheap calories come with a high price tag: obesity, Type II diabetes, heart disease.†
Chpt 1.9
- A one-pound box of pre-washed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy.†
Chpt 2.10
- Growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel energy for every calorie of food.†
Chpt 2.10
- Growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel energy for every calorie of food.†
Chpt 2.10
- Growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel energy for every calorie of food.†
Chpt 2.10
- They contain some vitamins, minerals, and some amino acids (the building blocks of protein) but few calories.†
Chpt 4.21
- 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.
Chpt Tips *calorie = a unit of energy most commonly known as a measure of the potential weight gain the body gets from food
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(calorie) a unit of energy most commonly known as a measure of potential weight gain the body gets from food