
About 100 years ago an agricultural chemist by the name of Wilbur O. Atwate was one of the first persons to workout calories in food. As mention before in another article , calorie is define as a unit of energy. What Wilbur articulated was that the amount of calories contained within a certain food is determined by the amount of energy it gives off if you burn it! Nutritionally speaking, 1 calorie is defined as 1,000 times the energy
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