A calorie and a kilocalorie are the same thing when talking about nutrition/exercise. Which is 1000 “small” calories.
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sgh@lemmy.ml 2 months ago[deleted]
rImITywR@lemmy.world 2 months ago
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In exercise, Kilocalorie and calorie are used interchangeably
Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
They try to make a distinction when referring to kilocalories as Calories, it’s literally just that Calorie (kcal) is capitalized and calorie (cal) is not.
It’s a dumb system.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s all just because Americans have a pathological aversion to metric prefixes
sgh@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yeah, I just realized my mistake and attempted to delete my comment before anyone else could see it… no luck this time.
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s cool. People will see it and learn.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s mad