Is Counting Calories Good for Weight Loss?
Mark Haub, who teaches nutrition as Kansas State University, wanted to prove to his students that weight loss is simply about calories. Therefore, for ten weeks, the professor started to eat an 1,800-calorie diet
When he started, Haub tipped the scale at 201 pounds,
Haub’s message has been standard advice for more than a century. According to many experts, it all comes down to straightforward math:
One reason is that calorie counts are not always accurate. The Food and Drug Administration allows numbers on nutrition labels
Listed calories may also be wrong
So, counting calories
7 . Hanwengong Shrine
Now we come to Hanwengong Shrine, which is beside Hangjiang river and west of Bijia mountain.
In the year of A.D. 819, for some political reason, Han Yu was exiled (流放) to Chaozhou, a backland at that time. But he was not depressed by this, and he helped local people to develop education, agriculture, irrigation and release slaves.
The shrine was built against the mountain and divided into two parts, the front part and the back part. Now we play a small game: count the stone steps, and later I’ll tell you a secret. How many steps are there? Yes, 51 steps! Why?
A.When Han Yu came to Chaozhou, he was 51 years old. |
B.Han Yu was a Confucian figure, and there are many stories about him in Chaozhou. |
C.Although Han Yu’s ideas had no obvious practical effect at the time, they had a great impact on society decades later. |
D.Built in the Song dynasty, the shrine is the oldest and best preserved monument to Han Yu, one of the greatest literary men in the Tang dynasty. |
E.To memorize what he had contributed to the development of Chaozhou, people constructed this shrine and named him Hanwengong respectfully. |
F.There are so many tourists that, to relieve the pressure on the monuments, the scenic spot requires that a maximum of 500 people visit at a time. |
A.At Mary Johnson’s. | B.At a painter’s studio. |
C.In an exhibition hall. | D.Outside an art gallery. |