Where Does the Fat Go? (And Other Concerns)
Food, We Need To Talk
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What Happens to Fat When We're Losing Weight?
Ruben Merman is a physicist by training, but he has become infatuated with biochemistry. He asked people on Bondi Beach where they thought fat went and the answers were pretty out there. When you burn anything organic, whether it's fat in your body or fat in a fire, like if you set olive oil on fire, it turns into carbon dioxide and water. But those products are invisible. So we just, you know, you think they've vanished. They're not part of the universe anymore.
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