For me, the use of the phrase "calorie count" and "calorie content" dispel that notion. It is clearly used to refer to the quantitative measure of food energy. I agree the calorie is deprecated (by still widely used in the US). But I wopnder why the Premier of Victoria uses it.
________________________________ From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, February 21, 2010 4:44:21 PM Subject: Re: [USMA:46719] Calories or kilojoules (Australian edition) Dear John, A close reading of this article will reveal that the word calorie is used on each occasion as a synonym for the word 'energy' and not as a unit for measuring energy. This is in keeping with Dr Lulu Hunt-Peters 1918 goal of changing the meaning of the word calorie to mean the energy in food when she wrote:'… hereafter you are going to eat calories of food. Instead of saying one slice of bread, or a piece of pie, you will say 100 calories of bread, 350 calories of pie.' This reference might help with this topic: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg34909.html By the way, it is interesting to look at the time it takes for a new word or a new realistic definition of a word takes to enter the public consciousness. Here are three examples: Weight vs massDefined by Isaac Newton in 1687Still widely unknown and misunderstood after 323 years Energy vs powerDefined by the BAAS in 1889Still widely unknown and misunderstood after 121 years Calorie vs kilojouleDefined by the BAAS in 1889Still widely unknown and misunderstood after 121 years Note: there's an oddity. I wrote calorie with a lower case c and because it was at the beginning of a line and the beginning of a sentence my word processor kindly change the lower case c to an upper case C and in doing so altered the value of the calorie to a Calorie – 1000 times larger than I intended! Oh, well, I'll leave it as the calorie and the Calorie have both been deprecated by the BIPM since 1948 anyway. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com/ to subscribe. On 2010/02/22, at 05:50 , John M. Steele wrote: Why would Australia post fast-food nutritional info in Calories when they use kilojoules? >http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/fast-food-outlets-could-be-forced-to-provide-calorie-counts/story-e6frf7jo-1225832750633 >[snippets quoted] >FAST-food outlets may be forced to provide a calorie count on their products >in a radical plan to fight Victoria's diabetes epidemic. > Premier John Brumby has ordered a top-level inquiry to counter the effect of >the millions of fast-food meals consumed every week. . . . >The new plan is based on a similar program in New York and would make it >compulsory for major fast-food outlets across the state to have the calorie >content on menus. . . . >Ms Stanton said the one problem with the plan was the use of calories when the >Australian metric system measured food energy in kilojoules. >Mr Brumby said: "Calorie disclosure at fast-food stores is proving successful >in other parts of the world, such as New York. >[end] > > >When you copy ideas, be sure to adjust for local conditions. :)
