The Basics on Calories

The word calorie use to freak me out because I didn't know about it and I just thought it was bad. Well there is a lot more to calories than most of us know off the top of our heads. The unit nutritionists measure the amount of heat produced by metabolizing food in kilocalories. A kilocalorie is the amount of energy it takes to raise The unit, kilocalorie, is the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree on a celsius thermometer. Some nutritionist may say a kilocalorie is the same as a calorie, but that's incorrect. A calorie is 1/1000 of a kilocalorie. When you see the word calorie that simply means metabolizing that food item produces that many calories of heat that your body can use for work. Those are the basics for now:)