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Are all calories created equal? Your gut microbes don’t think so. (www.washingtonpost.com)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The headline kinda blows. All calories are equal, but if you include the calories which are used by gut flora, our current counts are inaccurate. Not as catchy, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Meaningless distinction. The whole point is calories from the perspective of gut flora because we're interested in how the body is using those calories in this context.