Talk:Calorie
From Academic Kids
Am I the only person who thinks it funny that the U.S. insists on using a deprecated *metric* unit for nutritional purposes? If it was a customary unit one might understand, but insisting on using an out of date metric one?
- By all means, start your crusade. Don't leave out the doctors who use millimeters of mercury for blood pressure and centimeters of water for lung pressure. Gene Nygaard 14:13, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- They bitch when we don't use the metric system, and they bitch when we do use the metric system. Go figure. --I am not good at running 05:02, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
We had a vote, and yes, you are.
This: "one Calorie equals 1000 15 °C calories" means what? Isn't is supposed to be one Calorie equals 1000 calories?Qaz I get it now on second reading of the table... answered my own question.Qaz
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Calories in food
I would like to see a discussion of how calories are measured in food. Specifically what kind of lab equipment is used and how it works. Does something like this have a place in wikipedia?
- It's burned in a bomb calorimeter. This has been added to the article. -- Curps 10:41, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
