Calories
Title: Calories
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 444 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Calories
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 444 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
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 calories that a food contains. This is a classic example of human ignorance. How can one worry about something and
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but one hundred sixty THOUSAND calories. This is enough heat to boil nearly seven hundred fifty grams of water.
One hundred sixty thousand calories may seem an exorbitant amount to ingest in one sitting until one considers that the human body is comprised of eighty- percent water. The body must be kept at or near ninety eight and one half degrees Fahrenheit at all times, to accomplish this feat enormous amounts of energy are consumed.