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Kevmac60

Kevmac60

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After looking on here reading questions and answers I am totally baffled by micronutrients kcal ?
 
A kcal is a kilocalorie which is a unit of energy. In non-scientific diet books it may be referred to as a Calorie (with a capital C). It is roughly equivalent to 4.2 kilojoules (another unit of energy).
 
Kevmac60 said:
After looking on here reading questions and answers I am totally baffled by micronutrients kcal ?
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Kcal is not a micronutrients. Its a unit of energy, used to measure nutritional energy of food consumed.
 
They used to call them just 'Calories' - with a capital C, and the smaller unit, i.e. 1,000 times less, just a 'calorie'. Finally they realised this was stupid and decided to standardise it to bring it into line with just about every other metric measure, so changed it to be Kilocalories.

So 1 kcal = 1,000 calories = 1 Calorie
 
Kevmac60, And carbs and protein are about 4 Cal per gram, with fat st 9 Cal per gram.


Diagnosed 13/4/16: T2, no meds, HbA1c 53, FBG 12.6, Trigs 3.6, HDL .75, LDL 4.0, BP 169/95, 13st 8lbs, waist 34" (2012 - 17st 7lbs, w 42").

6/6/16: FBG AV 4.6, Trigs 1.5, HDL 2.0, LDL 3.0, BP 112/68, BPM 66, 11st 11lbs, waist 30".

Regime: 20g LCHF, run 1 mile daily, weekly fasting.
 
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