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You’ll need to jog for six hours to burn off your Christmas dinner, expert claims
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without overeating though?!
The average Brit will need to embark upon a six-hour-long jog or a fifty mile hike to burn off their Christmas dinner, an expert has claimed this week.
Yep, after a day of indulging on roasted turkey, mince pies and one too many glasses of port, the average person will need to get their legs seriously moving in order to burn off all those excess calories.
According to Amanda Daley, professor of behavioural medicine at Loughborough University, the traditional meal contains an average of 3,475 calories, which requires a hike of fifty miles or a six-hour-long jog to burn off.
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Prof Daley said, as per The Times: “For an adult weighing 84kg [13st 2lb] it will take about twelve hours of steady paced walking [about 4mph]. This is the equivalent of walking approximately fifty miles.
“Or, if you prefer, you could jog for five to six hours.”
Daley also pointed out that for those who can’t be bothered exercising and would rather collapse in front of the television for the rest of Christmas Day, the single meal could mean up to 2lbs of weight gain.
And it isn’t just the roasted turkey and all the trimmings that will catch you out on the calorie front; Daley pointed out that the a yule log equates to just over two hours of walking at 610 calories, while two glasses of prosecco add up to 230 calories, requiring a forty-six-minute walk.
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And just when you thought the news couldn’t get any worse, two slices of turkey plus pigs in blankets comes to 360 calories – another seventy-two minutes of walking.
Daley added: “It is important that people understand the true energy cost of food to encourage some restraint in their eating, and perhaps make them think twice about something like the yule log — or reduce the size of the piece they cut.”
The British Dietetic Association say adults often consume 6,000 calories on Christmas Day, which is three times the recommended daily total for women and more than double that for men.