how many calories are there in one pound?

Answer 1

Depends on the substance. A pound of what?

A pound of watermelon would have less calories than a pound of cookies.

Answer 2

There are no calories in a pound. A calorie is a unit of heat energy, a pound is a unit of mass.

Ohhhhhhh... I bet you want to know how many calories you have to burn to lose a pound of fat, huh?

"...there are 3500 calories in 1 lb. of body fat..."

Answer 3

In a pound of what? There are more calories in a pound of butter than a pound of celery.
Or are you asking how many calories burn a pound of one's body fat?

Answer 4

1. Burn the substance in a Bomb Calorimeter. An open cup version may also work for a larger quantity, but precision suffers.
2. Measure the heat released by the small sample by measuring the change in temperature surrounding the Calorimeter.
3. Calculate and convert
Q=c(Tf-Ti)*Ms
Q(M)=Q*M/Ms

Q=heat, convert to calories depending on your other measurements.
c=specific heat capacity of bath
Ms=mass of sample
M= mass desired

Answer 5

In a pound of what? Of fat? - there are 3,500 in one pound of body fat. There are 600 calories in 1 pound of body muscle.

Now if your asking about ice cream, thats different.

Answer 6

If you're asking how many calories you have to burn off to lose one pound, it's 3500.

Answer 7

A pound of what? Marshmallows would have alot of calories while a pound of celery would have few.

Answer 8

3500 calories to a pound.

Answer 9

there is 3500 calories per pound of fat in your body

Which means that, if you eat 500 calories less than you use each day, you'll lose about one pound a week.

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Answer 10

A pound of what?