It's the New Year, and for some that means resolutions to eat healthy food and get in

shape.

You've probably heard the standard advice to lose weight, eat fewer calories than you

burn.

But we at Gastropod wanted to know, is a calorie, a calorie, no matter what food it comes

from, and is one calorie for you, the same as one for me?

To find out, we visit the rooms where calories are measured and the labs where scientists

are proving that the numbers on our food labels are off, sometimes by quite a bit.

So is the calorie broken?

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Had it in any manner enhanced the advantages, attending a residence on the banks of that

river?

The occupants of the houses by the water side were in the habit of going to sleep at night,

with the firm conviction that the lower portion of their tenement was a comfortable kitchen,

and awakening in the morning wrapped to find it a miniature lake.

Then again, the river had a knack of dropping in a dodd times in a friendly way, when least

expected, when Mrs. Jones was cooking the Sunday's dinner, or while Mrs. Brown was gone

to the market, and as its manner of entering an apartment was, after the fashion of a

ghost in a mellow drama, to rise through the floor, the surprise occasioned by its appearance

was not unalloyed by vexation.

It would intrude an uninvited guest at a social tea party, and suddenly isolate every visitor

on his or her chair as on an island.

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