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Fat 'breathed out' of body via lungs, say scientists
- DanAndersen 12y agoIs this actually new information? I remember hearing at least a year ago that a large portion of weight loss was due to CO2 being exhaled, in terms of the mechanism by which it actually happens.
- yetihehe 12y agoThis is measurement of how much you lose by breathing. The study authors, Ruben Meerman and Andrew Brown from The University of New South Wales, said: "None of this biochemistry is new, but for unknown reasons it seems nobody has thought of performing these calculations before."
- Agathos 12y agoConversely, even reasonably well educated people are sometimes surprised to learn where plant biomass comes from. Most of it is not sucked out of the ground; it's made from the same CO2 that we're exhaling.