Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 9 days agoAttempt to motivate people to take the stairslemmy.worldimagemessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1390
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minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·9 days agoAnd since a kilocalorie is what we would call a “calorie” from food, this shows precisely how you can’t outrun a bad diet.
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 days agokcals are actually what we call Calories (note the uppercase letter). Most people don’t know that and just use lowercase without thinking though.
minus-squareEddoWagt@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 days agoSo Calories = kilocalories =/= calories?
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoExactly! But unless you’re in some very technical setting, people saying “calorie” probably meant “Calorie”/“kilocalorie”.
minus-squareEddoWagt@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoThat’s weird… I wonder how that came to be like that
And since a kilocalorie is what we would call a “calorie” from food, this shows precisely how you can’t outrun a bad diet.
kcals are actually what we call Calories (note the uppercase letter). Most people don’t know that and just use lowercase without thinking though.
So Calories = kilocalories =/= calories?
Exactly! But unless you’re in some very technical setting, people saying “calorie” probably meant “Calorie”/“kilocalorie”.
That’s weird… I wonder how that came to be like that