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Are we what we eat?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Quality of Calories

The average UK adult human has approximately the same percentage body fat as a sea mammal. A calorie of Mars bar is exactly the same as a calorie of junior bake-off, poison cake or a calorie of celery. The difficulty is that some of those calories are quite easy to stop eating. But animal, animals don't have labels that they look at and they are able to juggle their food very precisely.

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