"I Just Don't Believe All Calories Are The Same" Here's the thing CALORIES are the same. ALWAYS A calorie is just a unit of energy. "From a thermodynamic viewpoint, a calorie is of course a calorie. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but only transformed. Thus, the human body is constantly transforming energy—in this case, kilocalories—by combusting foodstuffs to produce heat." - Is A Calorie a Calorie? But food? Food with all of it's constituent parts, isn't just a uniform unit of energy. On the most basic level we know that per unit of mass (gram) carbs, proteins fats and alcohol all have … [Read more...]