Libertarian Thread #2: We Shall Never Die!

I've heard that eating as few as 100 calories less than your usual caloric intake per day, plus a half hour of exercise, can help drop at least half a pound a day.

How the hell are calories measured? I could understand how sugar, fat, and etc content can be measured in food, but what about calories? How does one determine "oh this banana has 50 calories" (other than reading the label, and how do they do it anyway?)

I thought you guys might be interested by these articles about America that I just found:

http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.6/kennedy.php
http://nationalinterest.org/article/imperial-by-design-4576?page=show

Padraic wrote: Epignosis wrote: The T wrote: How the hell are calories measured? I could understand how sugar, fat, and etc content can be measured in food, but what about calories? How does one determine "oh this banana has 50 calories" (other than reading the label, and how do they do it anyway?) "Calorie: a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food." Note that when discussing food, a "calorie" is actually a kilocalorie with respect to the above definition.

And, entertainingly, in England they actually label it a kilocalorie. Americans are so lazy. :( But it's the same thing: they burn it and measure the amount of energy it produces.



Edited by Henry Plainview - January 01 2011 at 20:13

As I've said before, don't let anyone tell you liberals are lazy.
Hell, I'm socialistic and  just got back from working M-Sat just under 55 hours in total.

Bet it feels good to feed the corporate machine, you evil, evil b*****d.

We briefly kind of sort of discussed some political stuff on the first pages. 

It requires that Textbook come in an troll, or T ask a question, or GaryB come and ramble insanely. 

Go for it.

I think the previos thread accomplished a lot: it made me realize Pat Shields is not actually insane. Sometime he takes it too far (private ownership of roads, please... Private police...) but in general, the less government, the less congressman deciding our fate and giving it away to corporations, the better.

Hate towards the rich is kind of engraved in my type of country (where politicias use it to gain votes, since most people are poor) but since I live here, I think more by myself... I still thinkmany of them act only on their behalf disregarding other people's rights, but many others don't. And, hell, what would the world of my favorite music (classical) be without private donations and rich people? Dead. .

The health care thing, though... I can't, no matter how I try, to see it as an activity where profit should be the main motivator...