Hello guys. Just wanted to know is... Why is it showing kilocal? And not cal? I'm sure i didn't burn 63kcal under 10 minutes. 😅😅
Posted Dec 11, 2021, 2:27 AM UTC
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1,000 cal = Kcal = Cal. When we talk about calories, we usually means Calories.
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I noticed this with my Huawei Band 6 too, that the kcal (kcal is the normal unit, just Americans use the term calories which mean kcal) values are totally wrong and at least 2x too high or actually close to 2x. Not sure if this is a wanted behavior and Huawei has some advantage of making it show double, like giving you a "good feeling" or something. Someone should sue them for this.
Every value of kcal in the huawei app you can divide by 2 to get a "decent" correct value.
When I WALK 10000 steps it always shows 800-900kcal, where a true realistic value is about 300-400.
Is this an (non Huawei) Android phone btw? If yes, you need to download the Huawei Health app from here, the Play Store app is not maintainced since over a year anymore because of the conflict between Huawei and USA/Google:
https://appgallery.cloud.huawei.com/appdl/C10414141
Download and open the apk then give rights to install the apk.
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Mine shows correctly. For about 10k steps it shows about 230 kcal.
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Because what you and everyone else calls a food calorie, is in fact 1000 calories, or 1 kcal. When we say 1000 calories in food, we actually mean 1000 kcal, or 1,000,000 calories.
Thanks man
Im always so confused how people mix this up. I mean kilo literally means times 1000 it's the same with kilogrammes and grammes.
I just explained how it's easy to mix it up. Because we use different calories measurements for different things.