"The calorie gave the public its first penetrating view inside the foods they ate, providing an elementary understanding of #nutrition. But it would also go on to torment millions, enrich corporations, inspire generations of advertising campaigns, provoke widespread guilt and pride, and even, some argue today, ...instructing the masses to focus on calories rather than on nutrients and steering them toward highly processed carbohydrates."
story from Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/doctor-pioneered-counting-calories-century-ago-were-still-dealing-with-consequences-180984282/
