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7/20/2025, 4:29:03 AM
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It's not arbitrary, calorimetry predates fat science and is more useful. Calorimetry measures how much useful work i.e. heat content i.e calories we an get out of something. It was here first and so it was used first, although food companies definitely prefer calories because everybody at the top of this world is scum.
Humanity has always wanted to know how much work we could get out of something because it's dangerous to be wrong about this sort of thing. Knowing how much work we can get out of our food is more useful than how much our food would weigh us down if we ate it.
Knowing that i just ate 1200 calories and will be good to work for the next 8 hours is more useful than knowing that i would have in theory gained .34 lbs for that meal.
Also historically, fat people virtually didn't exist and measuring food by weight gain is something that would exist solely for us. It's only been around 40 years give or take since the fatty epidemic started.
I do think you're onto something though, both would be extremely useful to have on our food, it's just calories are the more useful measure. Very interesting idea.
It's not arbitrary, calorimetry predates fat science and is more useful. Calorimetry measures how much useful work i.e. heat content i.e calories we an get out of something. It was here first and so it was used first, although food companies definitely prefer calories because everybody at the top of this world is scum.
Humanity has always wanted to know how much work we could get out of something because it's dangerous to be wrong about this sort of thing. Knowing how much work we can get out of our food is more useful than how much our food would weigh us down if we ate it.
Knowing that i just ate 1200 calories and will be good to work for the next 8 hours is more useful than knowing that i would have in theory gained .34 lbs for that meal.
Also historically, fat people virtually didn't exist and measuring food by weight gain is something that would exist solely for us. It's only been around 40 years give or take since the fatty epidemic started.
I do think you're onto something though, both would be extremely useful to have on our food, it's just calories are the more useful measure. Very interesting idea.
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