“The rest of my life”

[u/Sandvick]

[u/petaflopbopper]

However a big C Calorie used in nutrition is equal to 1000 little c calories used to measure energy. So a gallon of gasoline would only keep you going for about 3 weeks. Not that it matters.

[u/EishLekker → u/petaflopbopper]

I really thought you were joking, but turns out that it's true.

"Instead, the terms calories — capitalized or not — and kcal are used interchangeably and refer to the same amount of energy in relation to food or energy burned with exercise.

Therefore, you don’t need to convert them, as 1 kilocalorie equals 1 calorie in nutrition."

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/kcal-vs-calories#differences

What a clusterfuck... "1 kilocalorie = 1 calorie"?? Who ever thought that was a good idea? Why not just introduce a new term to avoid all that confusion? Or better yet, use joule.

[u/jctherik → u/EishLekker]

Who ever thought that was a good idea?

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The motherland of backwards units ofcourse.

They use "Calories" on their food labels, mostly everybody else uses kcal for the same value. Many countries also use dual kcal/kJ labeling.

[u/ApprehensivePick2989 → u/jctherik]

Because people wouldn’t eat the fast food cheeseburger if it had a million calories, they cross off three zeros and now it has 1,000 calories.

[u/StayingVeryVeryCalm → u/jctherik]

This ambiguity absolutely broke my little brain !>when I was deep in anorexia!<.

(Now I’m in a better place, and just let myself eat without obsessing about calories. Much better, much healthier. Fuck diet culture, etc.)

[u/gerkletoss → u/jctherik]

The motherland of backwards units ofcourse.

I've never heard someone say that about France before.

[u/bear4life666 → u/EishLekker]

Or just use kcal like most if not all countries in europe

[u/EishLekker → u/bear4life666]

So how do you use the regular metric suffixes like kilo, mega and giga with that? kkcal, Mkcal, Gkcal?

[u/jctherik → u/EishLekker]

kcal means kilo calorie. It's 1000 calories

So, you could use kcal, Mcal, Gcal.

But joules are the SI unit.

[u/EishLekker → u/jctherik]

The article I quoted earlier said, and I quote again:

"1 kilocalorie equals 1 calorie in nutrition"

So, once someone says "1000 calories", do they mean "1000 calories", "1 kcal, or "1000 kcal"?

[u/jctherik → u/EishLekker]

It really depends on their nationality.

If they're from the US, probably means a Mcal, if they're from somewhere else, it's probably a kcal.

[u/EishLekker → u/jctherik]

But you don't always know people's nationalities. All this just brings us back to what I said originally, that this is crazy. People should not use terms that can be confused this easily.

[u/jctherik → u/EishLekker]

Well, US decided to put "Calories" with capital C on food labels, whereas the actual values that they put there are in kilocalories.

So, you've gotta go complain to the US government.

[u/EishLekker → u/jctherik]

I will do that, and hopefully they will have it all sorted out by next week or so... /s

[u/LandOfMalvora → u/EishLekker]

I don't know if you're just messing around, so this might just be me getting wooshed, but the k in kcal is already the metric prefix. 1 kcal = 1000 cal = 1 nutritional calorie

So, the required energy intake of a human is ~2000 nutritional calories, which is 2000 kilocalories and could technically also be written as 2 Megacalories or 2 Mcal

[u/EishLekker → u/LandOfMalvora]

The whole discussion started with me realising that there is a mixup of terms used here. As in some people might say "1000 calories", and others might say 1000 kcal", and they both can talk about the same exact amount of energy.

[u/SirHawrk → u/EishLekker]

cal, Kcal, Mcal tho generally speaking you would use joules or just say a thousand kcal

[u/bear4life666 → u/EishLekker]

Kilo is 1000, mega is 1.000.000 and giga is 1.000.000.000. Just like computers have data storage, however when talking about caloric intake you never get above 1.000.000 so you usually say something like 1566 kcal.

[u/EishLekker → u/bear4life666]

But you phrased it as "kcal" is the core word in itself, but now you say that it's just the same thing as kilocalories. So we are just back to where we started basically.

[u/Swade211 → u/EishLekker]

What part of that would be funny as a lie? It's a little funny because it's true

[u/shadowXXe → u/petaflopbopper]

That is of course if you could use any of those calories.

[u/GaymerBenny]

Wtf, who can drink 4 Liters of Gasoline?

Just eat 1 Gramm (!) uranium and you're good to go for the next 25 thousand years

[u/shiroandae → u/GaymerBenny]

And you get a healthy glow in the dark.

[u/Idontcare09385 → u/shiroandae]

Or you might become the hulk.

[u/shiroandae → u/Idontcare09385]

Or both..? One can have luck!

[u/Nohbdy66]

It helps to take in a little bit at a time. Build up your immune system like it’s poison then once your ready make out with your sister while jacking off your brother. Then afterwards drink the gallon and fill the car with your semen instead.

[u/Mlgxxblubxx → u/Nohbdy66]

What the fuck

[u/Casper_Arg]

You never need to eat for the rest of your life. Unless you want the rest of your life to last longer.

[u/FartyMcFly03]

no andrew WK no! don't drink the gasoline!

[u/jctherik]

this is technically so false, i can't even.

[u/WHERES_THE_CAVEMAN → u/jctherik]

What makes you say that?

[u/jctherik → u/WHERES_THE_CAVEMAN]

calories vs kilocalories. The calculation is wrong by a factor of a thousand.

[u/WHERES_THE_CAVEMAN → u/jctherik]

Ah yes, but the joke still remains that drinking 4 litres of gasoline will lead to complications that may kill you!

[u/Moteltulsa]

Anyone see that Tlc episode?

[u/BabyLegs_RegularLegs]

Can I get a squirt of gas?

[u/EishLekker]

The "therefore" kind of ruins it though...

[u/WhatAreYouSaying05 → u/EishLekker]

It’s supposed to be like r/iamverysmart

[u/2xa1s]

Wait until he finds out about uranium

[u/cptn_jon_jon]

Uranium has 20 billion calories, so if you really wanted to bulk up we have 2 sources

[u/WildContinuity]

I think this is only because they measure calories by burning things, so obviously its not perfectly accurate and your body probably can't use gasoline in this same way

[u/Spaceturtle79]

Bruh people really don’t know that calories are near useless then. The calories don’t really matter if you eat often, you can eat a 2000 calorie cake but that doesn’t mean you should eat it since there is literally no nutritional value in it. If you care more about calories than the actual nutrition facts then your basically going nowhere

[u/Tenzilo]

So if I drink 3 gallon would I be able to live to 150 sth

[u/marulok]

r/hedidthemath

[u/DrhpTudaco]

that fact is wrong i would nee about 24 gallons a day

[u/The_Meat_Gazer]

Oooooo boy! Just wait till they figure out that uranium has ab 18 million calories per gram. You would'nt need to eat for like 30 years!

[u/Superkal004]

thats gas rest in peace

[u/Superkal004]

Ypu cant drink gas