Life is not made for counting calories
Vol. 117 No. 4 (2021), Chemical Research
Vol. 117 No. 4 (2021)

Life is not made for counting calories

Chemical Research
Published 2021-12-21
  • Juan José Serrano Pérez
Juan José Serrano Pérez
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2203-7758
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Keywords

thermodynamics
biochemistry
calorimetry
nutrition
dietetics
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Abstract

A well-known commercial stated that “life is not made for counting calories”. Curiously, this successful slogan served to advertise a very unhealthy product of very low nutritional quality. However, the sentence makes sense: counting calories is not useful when it comes to nutrition and dietetics.

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