When you read a label that says 200 Calories (notice the capital letter) it actually means 200,000 calories (as the actual scientific definition of calorie = the energy needed to raise one gram of water one degree Celsius at one atmosphere of pressure), or 200 kilocalories. So food energy is generally measured in kcal, but called Calories.
Thank you for that explanation!
But that would make 20,000 kcal/day kind of like the spaghetti man in Monte Python.
(maybe they are talking about the total calorie consumption per day of the entire VILLAGE?)
Or am I thinking backwards? Does that mean that 20,000 kcal is the same as 2000 Calories a day? That would be a nice healthy diet, but still about 2 times the Moochelle recommendation for growing youths.
Short topic so far, here’s one of the teapot tempests, and thanks Charles H. (The_r0nin) for taking a crack at it.
kcal to calories conversion
http://www.rapidtables.com/convert/energy/kCal_to_Calorie.htm