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The headline kinda blows. All calories are equal, but if you include the calories which are used by gut flora, our current counts are inaccurate. Not as catchy, I guess.
Meaningless distinction. The whole point is calories from the perspective of gut flora because we're interested in how the body is using those calories in this context.