Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 24 days agoAttempt to motivate people to take the stairslemmy.worldimagemessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1391arrow-down17
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minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·23 days agoAnd since a kilocalorie is what we would call a “calorie” from food, this shows precisely how you can’t outrun a bad diet.
minus-squareJackbyDevlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·23 days agokcals are actually what we call Calories (note the uppercase letter). Most people don’t know that and just use lowercase without thinking though.
minus-squareEddoWagt@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·22 days agoSo Calories = kilocalories =/= calories?
minus-squareJackbyDevlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoExactly! But unless you’re in some very technical setting, people saying “calorie” probably meant “Calorie”/“kilocalorie”.
minus-squareEddoWagt@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·22 days agoThat’s weird… I wonder how that came to be like that
And since a kilocalorie is what we would call a “calorie” from food, this shows precisely how you can’t outrun a bad diet.
kcals are actually what we call Calories (note the uppercase letter). Most people don’t know that and just use lowercase without thinking though.
So Calories = kilocalories =/= calories?
Exactly! But unless you’re in some very technical setting, people saying “calorie” probably meant “Calorie”/“kilocalorie”.
That’s weird… I wonder how that came to be like that