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Re:It's not just how many calories, but what kind, study finds by neutronicus on Thursday June 28, 2012 @01:19PM (#4172733)
People talking like you can perform a thermodynamic analysis of nutrition is definitely a pet peeve as a physicist.
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Re:It's not just how many calories, but what kind, study finds by mathewsanders on Thursday June 28, 2012 @01:58PM (#4172955)
+1 it drives me crazy too. Calories are a unit of stored energy. Wood has plenty of calories (great for fires) but if you eat a bunch of bark you're not going to store that weight, you're just going to make yourself sick.
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