Calories in = eating.
Articles, downloads, and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat.
Check out the latest resources in our What's In, Healthy Eating Library.
WHAT'S IN
WHAT'S OUT
Calories out = physical activity. Articles, downloads, and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more.
Check out the latest resources in our What's Out, Active Living Library.
CALORIE NEEDS
THE STAND UP & EAT BLOG
DANCE LIKE A COCKATOO
Click on the picture above to watch a great clip of Snowball dancing to the Back Street Boys.
Now if you just sat...
DO YOU SPEAK CALORIE?
Calorie literacy - that's what we're after. And boy is it needed. Check out this YouTube clip of people trying to guess the amount of calories in a typical fast food meal. The vast majority of people get...
STAND FOR SOMETHING -- ANYTHING!!
Just standing may be an important component of total daily calories burned. A recent study showed that compared to lean women, obese women sat more and stood less. They also spent half as much time moving around as the lean women. Still, the researchers calculated that if the obese women sat less, stood more, and doubled their weekly activity time, they could burn about 315 more calories...
STEP IT UP
This is one of those “duh” stories.
In a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers reviewed the results of 26 studies in which pedometers or step counters were used. They found that using step counters was strongly associated with increases in physical activity. That is, people who used step counters increased their...
WHAT WE STAND FOR
The Stand Up & Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices.
GET ACTIVE!!!
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If you are a total couch - or mouse - potato, the Get Active program will get you moving.
Each week for 12 weeks, you will receive an email guiding you through a step to becoming more active. Don't worry, you don't have to belong to a gym for it to work for you!
The program restarts at the beginning of each quarter (July 1, October 1, January 1, April 1). To sign-up for the Get Active program, click here. You will get your first email soon after the first of July.
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