Joules vs. Calories in Nutrition
- 1 March 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Nutrition
- Vol. 102 (3) , 309-312
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/102.3.309
Abstract
There is no valid reason to abandon the calorie as unit of heat in the metric system. The joule is recommended as a unit at a higher level of abstraction expressing energy per se when different forms of energy (heat, work, electric energy) are added or subtracted.Keywords
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