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The decision to not go that route with multiplying the macro totals by those standard numbers was intentional. There were a lot of different ways that you could represent the calory content of a food. You could do gross calories based on a based on the specific heats of combustion for the different macros. So you could add up the macros and multiply the fat by nine point four calories per gram, carbohydrate by four point one and protein by five point six five. This isn't something that we totally overlooked and were like, oh god, why dodn't we think of that?

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