Baked Potatoes or French Fries

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Baked Potatoes or French Fries

Is it ever a wonder that kids get away with eating the darndest things. They gobble candy ice pops, french fries and for the most part remain amazingly thin and fit. However, adults with the same type of diet are high-cholesterol dynamites just waiting for an explosion into triple-bypass heaven. Why do the little brats get to eat what ever they so desire without worry, while adults have to monitor every gram of anything that even considers passing through their lips? Basically, this is because children expend an amazing amount of calories due to their active lifestyles. Have you ever noticed a child walking with his mother in a shopping mall? For every one step that the mother takes, the child must take two in order to keep up, causing him to be in a constant gait alongside the mother. Thus the child is burning much more calories than the mother is. In addition, compare the lunch break of a typical adult versus that of a typical school child. How many adults that you know eat their lunch as fast as possible so that they can play tag for an hour before going back to work? And playing tag for an hour requires more fuel than having an hour discussion on the headline story of Quantum Mechanics Weekly. This is not to say that adults and children have the same physiological makeup and functions that they can be considered completely comparable to one another. However, the two can be fairly paralleled to each other if you just consider the human body's nutritional needs as related to the energy utilized by daily activities. Simply, the more you burn, the more food you need.

And so, with the above premise it can logically be concluded that adults who exercise have greater caloric needs (just as does t...

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