Kilocalorie used in a sentence

Kilocalorie in a sentence as a noun

That would be one kilocalorie. And that's what's listed on most food?

Keep in mind that US food calories on labels are equivalent to a kilocalorie. Last I checked, combustion was not one of the stages of digestion in the human digestive tract.

They do use kilocalorie that is defined with degrees of celsius though. It isn't as bad here, but unit mixing is extremely annoying in aviation books in canada.

Fresh, intact fruits and vegetables are often the foods highest in satiety per absorbed kilocalorie, but there's only one person that has your brain connected to your guts. You may find that hard-boiled eggs do the trick for you.

When talking about food or exercise, usually we use the kilocalorie but just call it a calorie. I assume the previous poster was using the small calorie.

In regards to energy intake and eating food, a calorie is actually a kilocalorie. So your 10,000 calories to ride a kilometer is actually 10 kcal.

In the US, we tend to use food calories, where 1 Calorie == 1 kilocalorie. The capitalization of Calorie is intended to show the difference in units, but in most written language, often isn't used.

This is entirely besides the point of the study and the article, but why are the Americans the only ones who, in terms of human energy intake/consumption, say calorie when it should be kilocalorie? Why do they insist on being one thousand times off?"

A burger and fries meal at one place could be +/- 500 kilocalories despite looking the same. After a while I determined food tracking to only be worthwhile at high level - ie, "ate burger" - rather than to do the legwork necessary to get accurate kilocalorie counts.

Yep. When you see "calorie" on US food labels, that's actually a big-C Calorie, or food calorie, which is equal to a kilocalorie from regular physics. If it were regular physics calories, the energy content of food would be nowhere near enough to sustain us.

Your selfish act of keeping your own body healthy with literally dozens of minutes of pointless kilocalorie-burning and wasted watts every week is a Nash equilibrium choice. Think of all the benefits to society that could be realized if no one ever needed to exercise to stay healthy.

Calories" in this context refers to kilocalories. Burning 1 kilocalorie produces enough energy to raise 1 kg of water 1 degree C. So burning an extra 1000 kilocalories per day means producing enough heat to raise the body temperature of a 100 kg person 10 degrees over the course of a day.