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<blockquote data-quote="catherinecherub" data-source="post: 709053"><p>Although it is often pushed to the side during the festive rush, during the post-Christmas fallout, weight loss will once more be at the top of many of our agendas. But where does excess weight go when we lose it? The answer provided by a new paper may be a surprise.</p><p><img src="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/images/articles/287/287046/diagram-of-the-human-lungs.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>The lungs are the primary excretory organ in weight loss, according to the researchers.</p><p>According to researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia, when weight is lost, the majority of it is breathed out as carbon dioxide. Their paper is published in the Christmas issue of <em>The BMJ</em>.</p><p></p><p>Prof. Andrew Brown and Ruben Meerman reported widespread misconception regarding how weight is lost, finding physicians, dietitians and personal trainers all equally guilty of not knowing. Most believed that fat is converted to energy or heat, "which violates the law of conservation of mass," they write.</p><p></p><p>Others believed that fat could be excreted within feces or converted to muscle. These responses may well have provoked gasps from Brown and Meerman, who have now formulated a calculation to illustrate how we actually "lose weight."........................</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/287046.php" target="_blank">http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/287046.php</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catherinecherub, post: 709053"] Although it is often pushed to the side during the festive rush, during the post-Christmas fallout, weight loss will once more be at the top of many of our agendas. But where does excess weight go when we lose it? The answer provided by a new paper may be a surprise. [IMG]http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/images/articles/287/287046/diagram-of-the-human-lungs.jpg[/IMG] The lungs are the primary excretory organ in weight loss, according to the researchers. According to researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia, when weight is lost, the majority of it is breathed out as carbon dioxide. Their paper is published in the Christmas issue of [I]The BMJ[/I]. Prof. Andrew Brown and Ruben Meerman reported widespread misconception regarding how weight is lost, finding physicians, dietitians and personal trainers all equally guilty of not knowing. Most believed that fat is converted to energy or heat, "which violates the law of conservation of mass," they write. Others believed that fat could be excreted within feces or converted to muscle. These responses may well have provoked gasps from Brown and Meerman, who have now formulated a calculation to illustrate how we actually "lose weight."........................ [url]http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/287046.php[/url] [/QUOTE]
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