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		neutronicus on June 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's not just how many calories, but what kind, st... People talking like you can perform a thermodynamic analysis of nutrition is definitely a pet peeve as a physicist.

mathewsanders on June 28, 2012 [–]

+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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