Caloric scale was invented in the 19th century to measure the energy of fuels in a furnace. Human body is not a furnace. Human body is a complex chain of casca

Caloric scale was invented in the 19th century to measure the energy of fuels in a furnace. Human body is not a furnace. Human body is a complex chain of cascading chemical reactions. When you eat sugar, an instruction is sent to the liver to produce Insulin in the blood. Insulin is the fat storage hormone, it signals to fat cells that they should absorb sugars from the blood stream. Mountains of research show that, just as sweeteners trigger a sugar-like chemical reaction in your mouth, they also trigger that same reaction in your liver.