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aceveiri
aceveiri Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2024 in Getting Started
What’s kilojoules?how much is 6945 kilojoules in calories? I need to consume 1200 calories per day. Thank you!

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  • erincatherinet
    erincatherinet Posts: 35 Member
    I googled it for you. 1 calories is equal to 4.18 kJ
  • erincatherinet
    erincatherinet Posts: 35 Member
    And apparently a kJ is a measurement of how much energy people get from the food they eat. Who knew?
  • Danp
    Danp Posts: 1,561 Member
    erincatherinet wrote: »
    And apparently a kJ is a measurement of how much energy people get from the food they eat. Who knew?

    A joule is just a measurement of energy same as a calorie. Just a different scale. Like Celsius and Fahrenheit

    A calorie is the energy required to increase 1 gram of water by 1 degree celsius at 1 atmosphere of pressure.

    A joule is the energy required to make 1 watt of energy for 1 second OR the energy transferred to an object when a force of 1 newton acts on the object through the distance of 1 meter OR the energy dissipated (as heat) when an electric current of 1 amp is passed through a resistor of 1 ohm for 1 second.

    But all that to say that they're both a measurement of energy and in reference to food while we talk about 'calories' we're actually talking about kilo-calories (or the energy required to increase 1kg of water by 1 degree celsius at 1 atmosphere of pressure) and kilo-joules
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