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Science Reveals Why Calorie Counts Are All Wrong | Scientific American

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Digestion is far too messy a process to accurately convey in neat numbers. The counts on food labels can differ wildly from the calories you actually extract, for many reasons

September 1, 2013 9 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Science Reveals Why Calorie Counts Are All Wrong Digestion is far too messy a process to accurately convey in neat numbers. The counts on food labels can differ wildly from the calories you actually extract, for many reasons By Rob Dunn At one particularly strange moment in my career, I found myself picking through giant conical piles of dung produced by emus-those goofy Australian kin to the ostrich. I was trying to figure out how often seeds pass all the way through the emu digestive system intact enough to germinate. My colleagues and

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