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A calorie is a unit that represents the amount of energy provided by food. Carbohydrate, protein, and fat are the primary sources of calories in the diet, but alcohol also contains calories. If all calories consumed aren’t used as energy, they may be stored as fat.
Calories provide a measure of the potential energy in the food that we eat. They measure this energy in the form of carbohydrates, fats and proteins.
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