Big Fat Myths: When you lose weight, where does the fat go?When you lose weight, where does the fat go? Most people assume it turns into heat and energy, but Albert Einstein showed us that diets would be devastating if this were true. The correct answer is that fat is converted to carbon dioxide and water. Energy is released, but no mass is created or destroyed. This was known when the First Fleet sailed into Sydney and yet it took two more centuries for Ruben Meerman to show that precisely 8.4 kilograms out of every 10 kilograms of fat are exhaled, while the remaining 1.6 kilograms become crystal clear water. His calculations were published in The British Medical Journal in December 2014. Meerman begins this diet myth–busting book by reminding us what we already know: that human beings are carbon-based, oxygen-dependent life forms. Where do the carbon atoms we exhale come from? Carbohydrates are hydrated carbon, and so are fats, whether they’re saturated or not. Eat less, and you’ll exhale the excess carbon stored under your skin. Big Fat Myths lifts the veil on weight loss by tracing every atom you eat into and out of your body. Diet myths and wellness nonsense topple like dominoes along the way, restoring your confidence in common sense and the age-old wisdom that to lose weight, you simply need to eat less and move more. |
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... Eat less, and you'll exhale the excess carbon stored under your skin. Big Fat Myths lifts the veil on weight loss by tracing every atom you eat into and out of your body. Diet myths and wellness nonsense topple like dominoes along the ...
... Eat less, and you'll exhale the excess carbon stored under your skin. Big Fat Myths lifts the veil on weight loss by tracing every atom you eat into and out of your body. Diet myths and wellness nonsense topple like dominoes along the ...
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... eat less and move more as part of my New Year's resolution to stop smoking and lose some weight. The quitting part was going well, but my weight was on a notoriously slippery slope. Men gain an average of 2.8 kilograms after they give ...
... eat less and move more as part of my New Year's resolution to stop smoking and lose some weight. The quitting part was going well, but my weight was on a notoriously slippery slope. Men gain an average of 2.8 kilograms after they give ...
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... eat less' does not mean eat 'less food'. It means 'eat fewer kilojoules'. You can eat a mountain of vegetables and still be eating fewer of those enigmatic things, and if you know your way around a spice rack, they can be delicious too ...
... eat less' does not mean eat 'less food'. It means 'eat fewer kilojoules'. You can eat a mountain of vegetables and still be eating fewer of those enigmatic things, and if you know your way around a spice rack, they can be delicious too ...
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... fewer carbon atoms going in, more carbon atoms coming out. Eat less, exhale more. Frequently asked questions 'So I just have to breathe more?' That's the number one most frequently asked question I have encountered in the hundreds of ...
... fewer carbon atoms going in, more carbon atoms coming out. Eat less, exhale more. Frequently asked questions 'So I just have to breathe more?' That's the number one most frequently asked question I have encountered in the hundreds of ...
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... eat less food or move your body more, or both. Complicated process, very easy to instigate. Kilograms versus kilojoules What is the physical difference between the mass of fat and the energy stored in it? The energy stored in a ...
... eat less food or move your body more, or both. Complicated process, very easy to instigate. Kilograms versus kilojoules What is the physical difference between the mass of fat and the energy stored in it? The energy stored in a ...
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