calories

It does not promise to turn a couch potato into an athlete, but the Nintendo Wii is one video game system that incorporates calorie-burning movement in its gameplay. That movement can be anything from a flick of the wrist to swinging a bat, boxing or using a Wii Fit accessory to do yoga or exercise...

Want to eat and drink healthy this spring and summer? Here's another option. Arizona-based grill and sushi chain Kona Grill recently announced a new menu for the upcoming season featuring three 115-calorie cocktails and three 200-calorie entrees. The menu, riding the coattails of the President...

It's sophomore year, and suddenly you're finding that your jeans don't fit like they used to? You're not alone. Although so-called "freshman 15" is an exaggeration, most students gain weight in college. Stress, a less-active life style, and those buffet-style cafeterias lead many students to pack...

For those of us trying to diet away holiday excesses, every calorie counts. We depend on the accuracy of frozen meal nutrition labeling and the information restaurants provide about their meals, but according to a new study in the Journal of the American Dietetics Association by researchers at...

KFC, the erstwhile Kentucky Fried Chicken, has introduced a special meal promotion with a novel pricing twist: It costs 1 cent a calorie. The 395-calorie Kentucky Grilled Chicken meal comes with a drumstick and thigh, green beans, mashed potatoes, and gravy. For that square meal, customers pay...

No law in California requires restaurants to limit entree selections to 500 calories (compared to the average recommended adult intake of 2,000 a day) or fewer. However, new menu labeling laws requiring chain restaurants to reveal calorie counts for regular menu items is effecting major changes in...

The restaurant industry should have seen it coming. After all, when President Obama was Candidate Arugula he actually lost weight by avoiding fatty photo-ops, going so far as to order pancakes to go. (I know, who eats take-out pancakes? No one. Which was exactly the point.)I can relate. I used to...

In a recent study, Smart Money compared various fast-food items on the basis of how much they cost for each 100 calories. The study found that the cheapest items usually had the fattiest calories, while the most expensive ones were much healthier. In a particularly surprising twist the falling...

The last time I wrote about restaurants offering huge portions of unhealthy calories, one kind commenter referred to me as "food Stalin."Well now I'm at it again. Fortune Small Business reports that Outback Steakhouse sells 2,900 calorie cheese-fries. A new law in New York requires that the company...