Thursday, September 23, 2010

Teen Health: Let Them Eat Cake

Well today is my birthday and my mom asked me if I wanted to get a cake or anything else to celebrate. I accepted the offer and now there is a cake on the table waiting to be cut. But it made me wonder- how many calories are in cakes? Well my first reaction to this was "Who cares? They don't even put that kind of information on the box. It's a cake," but I looked online anyway and found that on average birthday cakes have 310 calories. The website never really explained if that amount was in one complete serving of cake or in the entire cake. Another site I went to listed the cake I have has over 200 calories in one slice, but I don't think this is an accurate estimation. My idea of a slice is most likely a lot bigger than whoever posted this information so in other words, void. I estimate that one slice is between 200-400 calories. Now that's a lot for only one serving of food.  So am I going to eat it? Heck yes! My Birthday comes around once a year and it's time for me to celebrate. I'll just work off the calories later, besides, a little self indulgence never hurt anyone. All this cake talk is making me hungry. See ya!
~Chan
PS: Look at these cool birthday cakes I've found!
Cool huh? I don't own any of these cakes by the way.

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