Walking Off Candy: How Many Miles Does It Take?

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Friendly reminder for tonight and those days to come that all that candy is sitting in a bowl so EASY to grab. In fact, Americans overall are known to gobble down three to four pounds of candy during Halloween, or about three cups of sugar, which is equivalent to 220 sugar packets.

To burn off that much of the sweet stuff, Cell Stress Research Laboratory found that adults would need to spend 720 minutes (12 hours) walking, cycling or dancing; 360 minutes (6 hours) running or swimming; or 1,008 minutes (nearly 17 hours) sweeping or vacuuming.As you can see, from the graphic, that’s a lot of walking to burn off the calories from the candy! 🤪

It’s better to stay away from the candy.