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- $Title{The Calorie Content of Popcorn}
- $Subject{diet popcorn Community Social Problems problem Calorie Calories
- dieting snack snacking over weight reduction diets dieter dieters dietary
- popped corn snacks overweight reducing}
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- The Calorie Content of Popcorn
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- QUESTION: My boyfriend is on the heavy side, but thinks dieting is for women.
- He just eats everything in sight. When we go to the movies, he gets this huge
- container of popcorn, and tells me that it has no calories. He sometimes eats
- two! Can you tell us the truth about the calorie content of this common
- snack?
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- ANSWER: Well there is popcorn, and then there is popcorn. Popcorn prepared
- fat free, in a hot air popper, contains about 35 calories per cup, not bad for
- an evening's snacking. However, the preparation of popcorn in movie houses,
- for the most part, uses hot oils in preparing their concoction, which jumps
- the calorie count up to more than 50 calories a cup. A small container of
- popcorn sold over most snack counters contains 6 cups, and you consume about
- 300 calories if you eat it plain. With a shot or two of that butter flavored
- topping (it isn't real butter, you know), the calorie count zooms to about 650
- calories. Now I don't know about your movie house, but I have seen some
- containers that contain 10 or even 18 cups of flavored popcorn, for which the
- calorie price is over 2000 calories. Surely he doesn't eat two of those! For
- comparison you might wish to consider that many weight reduction diets provide
- but 1000 calories for a whole day's meals. But those are contained in a well
- balanced diet, not merely popcorn.
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- The material contained here is "FOR INFORMATION ONLY" and should not replace
- the counsel and advice of your personal physician. Promptly consulting your
- doctor is the best path to a quick and successful resolution of any medical
- problem.
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