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To: Churchillspirit

Much of the total supply of water the human body NEEDS is supplied by the metabolism of food for energy. Carbon dioxide is NOT the only metabolic product our bodies generate, every exhaled breath also carries 100% relative humidity of water vapor. Oxygen could not be exchanged in your lungs without this highly humid interface.

Small horses have lived for YEARS on the tops of mesas with no liquid water available, as the digestive processes of horses (and many other herbivores) can extract the water even from dead-grass forage, by metabolizing the energy contained in those collections of normally indigestible carbohydrates.

Little secret: you do not lose weight by sweating it off, you lose body mass and fat layers by metabolizing the tissues of your body, and these pass off through your breath. Breathing in oxygen accelerates the weight loss equation.


13 posted on 09/26/2015 11:06:13 AM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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To: alloysteel

Interesting.


15 posted on 09/26/2015 11:10:42 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: alloysteel

what do you mean by metabolizing your body tissue ?


22 posted on 09/26/2015 11:15:38 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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