What is a calorie?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The History of Calories and Nutrition
A calorie is a way of trying to divide up food into its potential amount of energy it can give the body. The original definition of a calorie is kind of murky. Cal caloric was a French word that Lavoisier used all kinds of stuff. It has had a lot more significance since then, but that's exactly right.
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