Diet calories are an example of anti-reification: an abstraction made real via a non-abstraction. A measure of homeostasis shifts in a complex dissipative system that rhymes enough with a unit of literal energy to be approximated by it. Like using pulse rate to measure time.
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I don't rant about how calories in nutrition aren't calories in engineering. I rant about how calories in nutrition are greedy reductionism. They're fine for the logistics of feeding a city. They're ignorant micromanagement for feeding a person.
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You misunderstand. I love calories. They're great. I'm trying to protect the simple, noble calorie from the abuse of knaves and fools.
The calorie thrives in it's native habitat but withers to a stunted, cowering thing when caged in a zoo.