In the latest episode of the MythBusters, Adam and Jamie wanted to see if you could make a rocket fueled by gummy bears (they also tried poop). You can get a lot of energy from sugar (in the gummy ...

One hundred food calories is also equivalent to the work done by a 150-pound person climbing 600 feet in height. That is 60 floors or just a little more than a hike up the Diamond Head trail. The ...

Calculating the calorie content of tree nuts like walnuts and almonds based on methods developed over a century ago should be reviewed as they are "inaccurate", according to a top US government ...

Did you know that a slice of apple pie at Denny's Restaurant has 470 calories and 21 grams of fat? Or that a 150-pound person who cycles at a medium pace for 1 hour burns about 545 calories? I just ...

Calculating calories for maintaining or reducing weight doesn’t have to be hard. Check this post for easy tips that are sure to help. Keeping tab of the calories you intake and burn is an effective ...

I’m a huge fan of tracking calories in order to lose weight. This process is quite powerful...with one exception. Here’s an eerie case where merely thinking about calories may nullify your progress.

Lots of people use fitness trackers to measure the number of calories they burn. A new study says they're not very accurate for this purpose. Researchers studied 7 trackers and found they were off by ...

KIND is reducing calorie counts on its nut bars to reflect USDA research suggesting that traditional methods for calculating energy have "grossly miscalculated" the metabolizable energy from whole ...

People who meticulously check the calorie counts on nutrition labels and restaurant menus are in for some bad news: the tallies may be wrong, experts say. Recent studies show that the amount of ...