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@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ A proto-college-student at Winona's China King Buffet, dreaming about visiting t
\subsection{Converting food into body heat}
Planning to save money, one college student decides to go to an all-you-can-eat buffet each day at 11am, eg figure \ref{buffet}. If he brings homework and stretches the meal out for a few hours he can get all $3000kcals$ with only one bill. Food is fuel for the human body -- could too much fuel make his body feel sick? If his body burned all this food at once, how much warmer would he get?
Useful information: the student has a mass of $80kg$ and is made mostly of water. A Calorie heats $1 kg$ of water $1^{\circ}C$.
% per Jane Jackson, maybe mention that 3000 Calories/day isn't necessarily healthy? Eg Balanced diet?
Here's a possible answer:
equate food energy with calorimetric heating and assume human bodies have the same heat capacity as water, about $1\frac{kcal}{kg\cdot\degC}$. This allows us to calculate the body's temperature increase.