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When you lose weight, where does the fat go? It turns into carbon dioxide.
Science Daily ^
| 12/16/2014
| University of New South Wales
Posted on 12/17/2014 8:43:25 AM PST by Pining_4_TX
The most common misconception among doctors, dieticians and personal trainers is that the missing mass has been converted into energy or heat. "There is surprising ignorance and confusion about the metabolic process of weight loss," says Professor Andrew Brown, head of the UNSW School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences. "The correct answer is that most of the mass is breathed out as carbon dioxide. It goes into thin air," says the study's lead author, Ruben Meerman, a physicist and Australian TV science presenter. ------------------- The second most frequently asked question is whether weight loss can cause global warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: climatechange; co2; diet; exhalation; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; health; weightloss
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To: knarf
Rather than make fun at the who and why of / for this article, I'm amazed no one ever articulated this before. I'm not sure I ever thought about it like this either.
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:03:11 AM PST
by
kjam22
(my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
To: Pining_4_TX
Good thing for the world that Michael Moore is not losing any fat, huh...
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:04:42 AM PST
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: Pining_4_TX
soo, algore is actually good for the environment ?
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:06:56 AM PST
by
daku
To: shove_it
Man Bear Pig, with an emphasis on Pig. Have you seen him lately? He needs some carb credits, not carbon credits!
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:08:56 AM PST
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: daku; Zeppo
Who knew that Moore and Al Gore had any value at all? You learn something new every day.
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:10:23 AM PST
by
Pining_4_TX
(All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
To: Steely Tom
Fat is carbon fixation! Until you die a premature death and decompose or are cremated. :-)
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:10:56 AM PST
by
justlurking
(tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
To: Pining_4_TX
rumor has it that none other than the formerly rotund one...al sharpton wants to apologize for having so greatly contributed to global climate change!
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:12:37 AM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: kjam22; knarf
I know. I was just having some fun with it. The whole idea of global warming is nonsense.
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:12:49 AM PST
by
Pining_4_TX
(All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
To: MeshugeMikey
Another reason to dislike the not-so-Rev. Al.
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:13:31 AM PST
by
Pining_4_TX
(All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
To: Pining_4_TX
So, fat people are “Carbon Sequestration Units.” Perhaps obese people should attempt to secure a grant for their work in combatting Man-Caused Climate Unpleasantness.
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:16:57 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Pining_4_TX
I just love it when liberal causes collide. so does this mean government schools can go back to "fatty" lunches and forget about Michelle Obama's guidelines?
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:19:00 AM PST
by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
To: Pining_4_TX
Yeah....and liposuction physicians in LA use the fat to power up their Diesel Mercedes cars....so causing increased emissions....
Surgeon uses human fat to run his cars - The Independent www.independent.co.uk ... Health News
The Independent
Dec 26, 2008 - By Guy Adams in Los Angeles ... Using human medical waste to power vehicles (or indeed for any other commercial purpose) ... motorists roughly the same mileage as they would get from regular diesel, the magazine added.
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:29:08 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
To: shove_it
Second Chakra Sex Poodle.
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:32:28 AM PST
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: a fool in paradise
The CO2 will be taken up by plants.
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:34:42 AM PST
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: Pining_4_TX
NORK Dictator Km Boy on ther other hand, sees no reason for concern,,,
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:35:40 AM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Pining_4_TX
There ya go, Moochelle is actually fighting glow-bull warming.
To: Pining_4_TX
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posted on
12/17/2014 9:41:53 AM PST
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: Pining_4_TX; a fool in paradise
if you see people jogging or exercising, yell at them from the car as you pass “Stay fat, save the world”!
We need Green Sin Taxes on gyms and diet aids!
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posted on
12/17/2014 10:03:18 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Pining_4_TX
“I just love it when liberal causes collide.”
:::::::::::::
Yes, and sprinkle on top of that, all their hypocrisy and you have a real side-show of freaks and criminals.
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posted on
12/17/2014 10:09:42 AM PST
by
EagleUSA
(Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
To: GeronL
We need Green Sin Taxes on gyms and diet aids!You want to impose sin taxes on yoga pants? You are a bad bad man.
#POWERTOTAXISPOWERTODESTROY
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posted on
12/17/2014 11:02:35 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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