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0 pointsneutronicus14y ago0 comments

People talking like you can perform a thermodynamic analysis of nutrition is definitely a pet peeve as a physicist.

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+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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