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When We Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?
« on: November 22, 2020, 02:37:44 pm »
When We Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?
Don’t worry, 98 percent of health professionals surveyed didn’t know either.
The Conversation

    Ruben Meerman and Andrew Brown
 

The world is obsessed with fad diets and weight loss, yet few of us know how a kilogram of fat actually vanishes off the scales.

Even the 150 doctors, dietitians and personal trainers we surveyed shared this surprising gap in their health literacy. The most common misconception by far, was that fat is converted to energy. The problem with this theory is that it violates the law of conservation of matter, which all chemical reactions obey.

Some respondents thought fat turns into muscle, which is impossible, and others assumed it escapes via the colon. Only three of our respondents gave the right answer, which means 98% of the health professionals in our survey could not explain how weight loss works.

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Re: When We Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2020, 02:46:48 pm »
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Re: When We Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2020, 11:09:08 pm »
Canada.

One pound leaves your gut and goes to Canada, but two more come up from Mexico and attach to your butt.......

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Re: When We Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2020, 11:15:19 pm »
When We Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?
Don’t worry, 98 percent of health professionals surveyed didn’t know either.
The Conversation

    Ruben Meerman and Andrew Brown
 

The world is obsessed with fad diets and weight loss, yet few of us know how a kilogram of fat actually vanishes off the scales.

Even the 150 doctors, dietitians and personal trainers we surveyed shared this surprising gap in their health literacy. The most common misconception by far, was that fat is converted to energy. The problem with this theory is that it violates the law of conservation of matter, which all chemical reactions obey.

Some respondents thought fat turns into muscle, which is impossible, and others assumed it escapes via the colon. Only three of our respondents gave the right answer, which means 98% of the health professionals in our survey could not explain how weight loss works.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-we-lose-weight-where-does-it-go?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Didn't read the article...

But the only place it can go is out as urine or out as sweat...

Am I wrong?

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Re: When We Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2020, 11:17:07 pm »
LOL.  The fat cells don't go anywhere, nor do they "turn into muscle."

They reduce in size greatly, but they don't leave the body.  That's why weight comes back so quickly after a spell of dieting.  I assume the matter within the cells is expelled in either urine or feces, or absorbed into the body and eventually expelled.

Only liposuction will actually reduce the cell count.

Didn't read the article...

But the only place it can go is out as urine or out as sweat...

Am I wrong?

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