What Is A Calorie? When we speak of eating or exercising, we tend to discuss in terms of calories . Menus at restaurants will indicate the number of calories in each meal. Treadmills indicate the amount of calories that are burned. Dieters monitor calories every day while others giddyly proclaim that calories don't count on weekends. What exactly is an calorie in the first place? "The calorie is nothing more than a measurement, just like inches or kilowatts," says Lauri Wright the assistant professor of nutrition and dietetics of the University of North Florida and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. "It just represents how much energy is contained in the food or how much energy is used by the body." What's in a Calorie When we talk about calories in our bodies as well as in our food , what we are talking about is actually kilogramcalories, Wright claims. A calorie, often called a small-sized calorie is the quanti...
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