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Tiny units of energy your body counts and your brain ignores.
means A measure of how much energy food gives you, or how much your body burns doing anything at all.
from From the Latin calor, meaning heat — coined in 1820s France to quantify warmth, later hijacked by nutritionists and diet culture alike.
Real definitionEnergy to heat one gram of water one degree.
Food label trickThose are actually kilocalories, a thousand times bigger.
Brain taxYour thinking organ burns roughly 20 percent daily.