How to make low-calorie hot chocolate

Hot chocolate or hot cocoa is a beverage, served heated, composed of chocolate in some form (shaved or melted chocolate or cocoa powder), hot milk or water and sugar. Low-calorie beverages provide 40 calories or less per serving. The only way to decrease the calories in hot chocolate...
How to make low-calorie hot chocolate

What is the lowest calorie Booster Juice?

Booster Juice is the name of a juice and smoothie bar with roughly 300 locations. It is not unlike Jamba Juice®.  The company website boasts that they offer “healthy alternatives to fast food that are great tasting, nutritious and convenient.” These alternatives come in liquid...
What is the lowest calorie Booster Juice?

How many calories in milk?

Curious about how many calories are in milk? Cow’s milk, a nutrient-rich dairy beverage, varies in calories according to its fat content. Plain cow’s milk is available whole-fat (3.25% milk fat), 2% or reduced-fat, 1% or low-fat and skimmed or fat-free. According to the American...
How many calories in milk?

Is Guinness low-calorie?

Guinness is a dark Irish beer with a rich flavor. When poured just right, it is topped with a mountain of distinctive creamy foam. Guinness is available by the pint or ½ pint as a draft beer or in a distinctive tall black can. But do you also think ‘diet’ when you consider Guinness?...
Is Guinness low-calorie?

5 Weight Loss Apps That Are Simple and Effective

Losing weight is a losing battle for most people, or at least it seems to be judging by the number of obese people walking around. Actually, driving around seems to be the new thing to do if you are fat, even indoors. Well, this is just another example of us relying too much on technology and...
5 Weight Loss Apps That Are Simple and Effective

What is a kilojoule?

In most countries outside of the US and UK, the energy provided from food is measured by the kilojoule. This is confusing for Americans, particularly if you aren’t good with numbers and calculations. If you are overseas and look on the nutrition facts panel of a packaged food...
What is a kilojoule?

What Foods to Avoid When Dieting

We all know that sweets and pizza is generally bad for us, no matter if we are trying to bulk up or tone down.  But when we are dieting, we have to be especially careful about what we eat.  So aside from avoiding all the junk food that we are supposed to avoid anyway, we have to be extremely...
What Foods to Avoid When Dieting

What is the definition of a Calorie?

A Calorie is a metric unit of energy in food. The scientific term is kilocalorie (kcal) and is used when applied to food. A kilocalorie is, technically, 1000 calories. One kilocalorie represents the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of a liter of water 1⁰...
What is the definition of a Calorie?

Calories for Long John Silver's

Long John Silver’s is a quick-serve restaurant, specializing in seafood, that has been around for over 40 years. Long John Silver’s is multi-branded with A&W™, Taco Bell™ and KFC™. A multi-brand strategy is when two or more competing, similar products are operated under...
Calories for Long John Silver's

How to Eat Low Calorie at a Mexican Restaurant

You may be afraid to eat out, especially at a Mexican restaurant, if you are on a reduced- or low-calorie diet for weight loss. Mexican food is delicious but the caloric value for many popular entrées runs high. In fact, compared to other ethnic cuisines, it is much more difficult to...
How to Eat Low Calorie at a Mexican Restaurant