Equivocation; causes a lot of problems.
Physicists and nutritionists both use "Calories" to describe a measure of energy, but nutritionists have shortened "Kilocalories" for brevity.
So when a nutritionist talks about a calorie, they're talking about 1000 more than a physicist is talking about.
This misunderstanding lead to some people crunching the numbers and deducing incorrectly, that heating ingested icecream to body temperature expended more calories than are contained in the icecream.
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Perhaps being fat is the least of the problems for anyone who thinks mixing protein powder into a 4 litre tub of chocolate ice cream is the way to getting ripped - Everyone knows the way to getting huge is with Neapolitan. =D