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Calories to Eat a Human

Comment a comment by Matthew Vea (VnutZ), published on 06 April 2007
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I received an interesting e-mail the other day:

With all the time you have on your hands … try this. My warped son wanted me to find out how many calories are in "people". You know … steak … 8oz. = 230 cal. etc. How many calories are there in the proverbial "pound of flesh"???

Now I know that true calories are measured using a Calorimetry Test with the equation Heat Capacity © = Specific Heat (q) / Change in Temperature (dT).

So – what variables would apply to a human being? Would a safe assumption be to break the body down into its components, use the calorimetry equations and then sum the values?

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