Re: Help me understand calories
I think they might be getting concepts confused. A calorie is a unit of energy (the amount of energy it takes to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius), for food intake we use kilocalories (increase 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celsius) but refer to them as calories.
Since it's a unit of measurement, there are inherently no 'good' calories or 'bad' calories. That would be like discussing good inches or bad liters.
In short, tell them they are wrong. Unless I am.
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