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Are all calories created equal? Your gut microbes don’t think so.
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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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.
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.