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Anonymous
Explain calories please.

My food says Kcal ( 1k = 1000 )
and the equipment at the gym says CALORIES

If i understand this right, my little granola chocolate bar is 112kcal ( 25 grams bar) which i need to run 1 hour in order to burn.

wtf
>> Anonymous
Calories in nutrition are actually Kilocalories.
>> Anonymous
yeah 1 Calorie = 1000 calories..
>> Anonymous
If it's a Calorie (capital C), it's a Kilocalorie (1000 calories). Food values are in Kilocalories (i.e. Calories). They just use Calories for simplicity.

One calorie is 4.18 joules and is the heat required to increase 1 gram of water (1 millilitre) to by 1 kelvin (same as degree C for you uneducated). A kilocalorie is 4.18 kilojoules. In many countries, the unit for energy on food labels is KJ rather than Calories.

If you're fat, you burn 1000 Calories jogging at 10kph for 1 hour. If you're thinner, less (maybe 800 or so). Burning that little bar will take you two minutes.
>> Anonymous
the equipment at the gym is never correct. the shits not even close, even if you do put in your height and weight.
>> Anonymous
>>125930
You mean burn 1000 Kilocalorie?
>> Anonymous
>>125944

As I mentioned, a kilocalorie is often written as Calorie (capital C) to differentiate from calorie. If you see an uppercase C, it's either kilocalories or the first word in the sentence (in which case you're pretty much just fucked).
>> Anonymous
>>125937
i'd say it is accurate to within 30%
but that is just a guess