Nutritionist: Calories are a measure of energy and you use energy to live, I guess, or to survive.
Hairdresser: Calories I think are the bane of most female's lives.
Talking to your clients about that is quite fun, because they give you tips and you find out how many calories is in a cup of tea or an apple contains about 45 calories, I think.
So at breakfast you might have a bowl of porridge, so it's 200 calories gone.
I might have a snack when I get to work, which would be 96 calories.
At lunchtime I might want to eat a little bit more, so I would have a lot fat spaghetti Bolognese which is about 350 calories.
Personal trainer: The government guideline for men is 2,500 calories a day and for women 2,000 calories.
In an hours session, you're looking between 600 and 800 calories to burn, obviously depending on what you're doing.
Generally most people who come to the gym are in here to turn calories, to get rid of the ones that they've already consumed.
You can do as much training as you like in the gym but you can never out train a bad diet.
Calories are a measure of energy. This video - produced in 2014 - uses calories as an example of something you might measure. It features a range of contributor opinions on why someone might wish to measure calories accurately. For up to date information on calories please see the NHS website.
Downloadable Factsheets
Entry 3 - Labels and calories
Examples of food labels showing you where to look for the calorie content.
Level 1 - Labels and working with calories
Examples of food labels with the calorie content and example of the calorie content of a variety of foods.
Downloadable Worksheets
Entry 1 & 2 - Calories in snacks
An activity in matching the snack to the correct number of calories.
Entry 3 - Matching calories
Matching food and drink to different calorie values.
Entry 3 - Put in order of calories
Placing food and drink in order of calories, lowest first.
