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Calories


People are, by nature, very gullible, nieve and border on ignorance. There are very few that strive for understanding. Most accept what is told them by friends, the media and the government without question. Take for, instance, the calorie. Millions of Americans read the labels of food containers and worry endlessly about the number of that a food contains. This is a classic example of human ignorance. How can one worry about something and not know what it is, where it comes from, and what it does?
A French scientist, Antoine Lavoisier coined the term calorie, actually caloric, in the eighteenth century. Mr. Lavoiser observed that chemical reactions gave off heat. He believed that ...

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another scientist of the seventeen hundreds, discovered that it took different substances varying amounts of heat to raise one gram of a substance one degree Celsius. He called this specific heat. Mr. Black also noticed that when mercury at fifty degrees is mixed with equal amounts of water at zero degrees the resulting mixture would be only one degree. From this, he concluded that heat and temperature were not the same. In order to give the scientific world a standard of measure Mr. Black termed
the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celsius a calorie.
The problem encountered here is that the calorie on food containers is not quite the same as Mr. Blacks. The referred to by the food and Drug Administration are actually kilo. That is one thousand times greater than those Mr. Black discovered. When Americans sit down to breakfast and eat a serving of Frosted Flakes, they are not ingesting one hundred sixty but one hundred ...

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Added: 7/2/2008 04:26:29 AM
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