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Where did calorie counting come from?

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The modern unit of a food calorie, or kilocalorie, was originally a unit of heat used for steam engines in the 19th century. The journey of this physics term into a household health metric reveals the surprising story of where did calorie counting come from and how it shaped dieting for over a century.