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CGMthrowawayyesterday at 3:13 PM1 replyview on HN

Most (85-90%) of the carbon in the food we eat is breathed out, not excreted


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ljfyesterday at 4:14 PM

Side note - it always amazes me (and people when I tell them) that when you lose fat from your body, they main way for that fat to leave your system, is to burn it then breathe the co2 out - that is one of the limits on how much fat you can burn a day. You do lose some of the results of the burning, and a little through sweat, but the vast majority is down to co2 leaving your system.

(Note you can temporarily also lose weight through water loss - but that isn't the loss of actual fat from your system.)

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