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"Calorie" in the context of nutrition has a different meaning than "calorie" in the context of physics. Three orders of magnitude different, to be precise. It's entirely plausible that he had no idea of the special nutritional definition, since you'd never encounter that outside of nutrition, and things like food labels almost always fail to make the difference clear.

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