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    Fast facts

    Average caloric requirement for existing (breathing, eating and sleeping): 1,000 -1,500 per day.

    Thirty-five percent of American dieters blame candy for their failure to lose weight. Twenty-one percent blame cheese.

    You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

    A karaoke singing of “”We Are the World”” burns 20.7 calories.

    Play a round of golf, then drink two cocktails. You’ve just gained more calories than you burned.

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