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Water and CO2? (And, of course, some other byproducts, but by and large.) I mean, I think this is a well-known answer, no? Sorry I don't mean to sound facetious, I haven't opened the article, so I may be surprised, but I thought this was standard knowledge (at least, it was taught in middle school and high school, even though that's been a while ago for me).
Water and CO2? (And, of course, some other byproducts, but by and large.) I mean, I think this is a well-known answer, no? Sorry I don't mean to sound facetious, I haven't opened the article, so I may be surprised, but I thought this was standard knowledge (at least, it was taught in middle school and high school, even though that's been a while ago for me).
Our school did not taught that.
Water and CO2? (And, of course, some other byproducts, but by and large.) I mean, I think this is a well-known answer, no? Sorry I don't mean to sound facetious, I haven't opened the article, so I may be surprised, but I thought this was standard knowledge (at least, it was taught in middle school and high school, even though that's been a while ago for me).
Hopefully by now you have opened the article and read it. Did it dazzle you?
> 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. I mean what they're getting at must be true, we are obviously not converting 1kg of rest mass into energy but that sentence is very much not true.
Water and CO2? (And, of course, some other byproducts, but by and large.) I mean, I think this is a well-known answer, no? Sorry I don't mean to sound facetious, I haven't opened the article, so I may be surprised, but I thought this was standard knowledge (at least, it was taught in middle school and high school, even though that's been a while ago for me).
Not that well known in some circles. I decided this year to lose some weight and only worked out the mechanics of it after researching throughly. It never factored into my education or general knowledge. It was demotivating to be honest knowing how much of me I had to breathe out. I will say that it was one of the best changes I ever made to my life.
Wohoo! That's awesome, congrats! :) It is rather surprising just how much air needs to be exchanged, which is crazy and definitely not intuitive. (And I could definitely see how it could be demotivating... but, hey, we do breathe out quite a bit!)
For reference, if losing 10 pounds of body weight corresponded meant it was converted to energy completely, that would produce about 4 * 10^17 joules of energy. That’s equivalent to 95 megatons of TNT (or two Tsar Bombas) or 111 million megawatt hours.
> The only thing in food that makes it to your colon undigested and intact is dietary fibre (think corn). Everything else you swallow is absorbed into your bloodstream and organs and, after that, it’s not going anywhere until you’ve vaporised it.
This is an oversimplification; if digestion was 100% efficient, feces would be sterile. I think there are even bariatric surgeries that work by making the digestive system less efficient.
> 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. I mean what they're getting at must be true, we are obviously not converting 1kg of rest mass into energy but that sentence is very much not true.
In what way is it not true? When a reaction does convert mass to energy we call it a nuclear reaction
> 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. I mean what they're getting at must be true, we are obviously not converting 1kg of rest mass into energy but that sentence is very much not true.
In what way is it not true? When a reaction does convert mass to energy we call it a nuclear reaction
Your power company still won't accept that perfectly correct explanation in lieu of payment.
Water and CO2? (And, of course, some other byproducts, but by and large.) I mean, I think this is a well-known answer, no? Sorry I don't mean to sound facetious, I haven't opened the article, so I may be surprised, but I thought this was standard knowledge (at least, it was taught in middle school and high school, even though that's been a while ago for me).
Driven home by living with a gearhead after college. At least some of the liquid dripping from tailpipes is water.