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[pct-l] Re: more questions!?! CORRECTION!
- Subject: [pct-l] Re: more questions!?! CORRECTION!
- From: bluesky%40Rt66%2Ecom (Karen Elder)
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 08:48:15 -0700 (MST)
>The "calories" in physics are actually kilocalories.
>That is, one physics calorie = 1000 nutrition calories.
Oops, that's backwards - the calories in *nutrition* are actually
kilocalories, 1000 physics calories = 1000 nutrition calories.
The problem with physics calculations of energy for going up hills is that
they don't take into account the other "work" your body does - keeping in
balance, digesting and such, etc, and the fact that you're not a perfect
energy conversion machine. I read just the other day that an hour of going
uphill with a backpack (?didn't say how heavy) uses more energy than an hour
of most other activities - I think it was around 500 calories (nutrition)
per hour.
Sorry for the error.
Karen
Karen Elder
bluesky@Rt66.com
P.O. Box 20093
Albuquerque, New Mexico
87154 USA
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