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Calories In = Calories Out? Exploring The True Science Behind The Calorie & The Real Truth About Fad Diets.
Ben Greenfield Life
The History of Calorie in Agriculture
The first people actually to use calories as an indicator of the amount of food were german farmers. Wilbur atwater was an american who learnt about this calery and learnt about the way to measure calories in Germany. He then began to be interested wit, ok, well, we were not cows, but how how efficient are human beings? You know, when we eat, how much food do we absorb? How much comes out? And so atward of them begin to take human type food. So rather than just hay or whatever they fed, you know, animals at the time, he began to calculate the total number of calories in regular, normal food that humans would recognize as
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