• @Jarix
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    76 months ago

    When you lose weight, it is literally breathed away out of your body into the air

    • @[email protected]
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      46 months ago

      Is that true, though? Your body needs energy for various tasks and those have different mechanisms of spending the energy. Muscles, for example, move, which creates heat. But that heat is not simply breathed out.

      • Enkrod
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        56 months ago

        The heat is literally produced by oxidizing (burning) carbon that you then breathe out as carbondioxide.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 months ago

        Producing heat isn’t where the mass goes though - mass is conserved. You only lose mass to energy in a nuclear reaction.

        • @Shardikprime
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          16 months ago

          Something has to go in there, if not losing energy to radiant heat transfer, then how e=m(c^2)?

          • @[email protected]
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            16 months ago

            I’m not sure what you mean by in there but yes, the heat would be transferred to the environment.

            E=m(c^2) describes how much energy is contained in matter. It’s useful for nuclear reactions, but your body isn’t a nuclear reactor and you aren’t consuming substantial quantities of radioactive isotopes, like uranium ore, that will decay on their own so it isn’t relevant here.

            • @Shardikprime
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              16 months ago

              Still energy is being radiated. A mass loss has to occur for that

              • @[email protected]
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                6 months ago

                Radiation of heat is done through em waves which are massless particles. Being in direct contact with the air will transfer heat via conduction, or particles vibrating against each other - which is how the vast majority of heat loss will occur.

      • @Buddahriffic
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        16 months ago

        You inhale O2, you exhale CO2. That carbon comes from something inside your body.