On July 1 "Mega-bytes" <mega-bytes@email.msn.com> gave the
following list of nutritional contents for Ezekiel bread:
> Per loaf - 1 lb, 12-14 slices:
> Loaf Slice
> Calories 1,440 120
> Sat Fat 0 0
> Poly unsat fat 0 0
> Mono unsat fat 9g .75g
> Protein 165g 13.75g
> Carbo 99g 8.25g
> fiber 396g 33g
> sugars 63g 5.25g
> chol 0 0
> Sod (in beans) 36g 3g
> Iron %RDA 324% 27%
> Cal %RDA 180% 15%
> PLUS 33 Vitamins, minerals and amino acids
Sorry, my engineering background just won't let me pass on this.
A pound of bread weighs 456 grams. Adding up the fat, protein,
carbos, fiber and sugars given in the note I get a total of 732
grams. I'm especially surprised by the claim for 396 grams of
fiber - typically it's a few percent or less of total weight. Can
someone check these figures?
And just in case there are other technically minded people out
there, how about this one: I weigh almost 200 pounds and each
day for exercise I climb a hill that's 600 feet high. How many
calories do I burn doing this? In other words, how much is 600 x
200, or 120,000 pound-feet of work when calculated in food
calories? I tried to answer this myself and found that there are
two kinds of calories, neither of which gave me a satisfactory
answer. Somehow I feel I must be burning a few hundred calories
at least in climbing that hill, but I don't get that. Anybody
know how to convert from foot-pounds to food calories?
Rich Casey