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Originally Posted by Sun Tzu
5. If someone loses weight through diet and exercise, reducing body fat, how did that mass leave their body?
a. rectum
b. pores
c. lungs
d. none of the above
This one is counterintuitive and pretty interesting. It's similar to the question of where the mass of a tree (or any plant) comes from.
We get our energy and nutrients from the plants and animals we consume. That metabolism depends on breathing in O2 and breathing out CO2. When we lose weight, it's from the carbon exiting our bodies through our lungs.
Fascinating, my thinking was that we convert mass into energy, both kinetic and as warmth. Didn't even think about the carbon leaving through the lungs.