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Re:Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way by UncleMeat on Friday September 23, 2022 @06:40AM (#32950123)
Sure. And our stomachs aren't bomb calorimeters.
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Re:Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way by elil17 on Friday September 23, 2022 @09:17AM (#32951504)
Literally not sure what a stomach has to do with any of this.
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Re:Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way by UncleMeat on Friday September 23, 2022 @10:36AM (#32952499)
CICO often makes the assumption that we metabolize food in the same way that a bomb calorimeter burns it. Calorie numbers on labels refers to the latter.
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