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When you lose weight you are probably so delighted to see the fat disappear that you dont think about where it actually goes.

In a study completed by UNSW Australiait was discovered that despite many health professionals misconceptions that fat is converted into energy or heat, the fat is actually breathed out as carbon dioxide.

It goes into thin air says the lead author of the study, Ruben Meerman, a physicist and Australian TV science presenter.

Ruben Meerman followed the atoms of the fat and of 10 kg of fat lost, 8.4 kg of that was exhaled as carbon dioxide through the lungs and the remaining 1.6 kg becomes water and is excreted as urine, sweat, tears, breath, and other bodily fluids.

Unfortunately, breathing itself cannot cause weight loss.

Breathing more than the required rate can cause hyperventilation, resulting in dizziness, palpitations ans loss of consciousness.

The authors were frequently asked could weight loss cause global warming?

Ruben Meerman said: This reveals troubling misconceptions about global warming which is caused by unlocking the ancient carbon atoms trapped underground in fossilised organisms.

The carbon atoms human beings exhale are returning to the atmosphere after just a few months or years trapped in food that was made by a plant

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