DO YOU KNOW WHERE FAT GOES WHEN YOU LOSE WEIGHT Growing up to an adult I have heard about many diets and tried more than a few, but I often asked myself, “Where does the fat go when I lose weight?” My experience is that it doesn’t go anywhere, because it seems to always come back like a stray cat.
So, I thought that I would read some research regarding a survey of 150 doctors, dietitians and personal trainers regarding the “fat loss topic” and I was surprised with the lack of knowledge regarding this aspect of health by these professionals.
The most common misconception by far, was that fat is converted to energy. The problem with this theory is that it violates the law of conservation of matter or principle of mass conservation, which states that for any system closed to all trans- fers of matter and energy, the mass of the system must remain constant over time, as system’s mass cannot change, so quantity cannot be added nor removed. Hence, the quantity of mass is conserved over time.
Some of the surveyed respondents explained that fat was turned into muscle thru exercise, which is impossible, and others assumed it escapes via the colon.
It was shocking to see that only three of the respondents gave the right answer, which means 98% of the health profes- sionals in the survey could not explain how weight loss works.
The correct answer is; fat is converted to carbon dioxide and water. You exhale the carbon dioxide and the water mixes into your circulation until it’s lost as urine or sweat.
So, if you were to lose 10 pounds of fat, precisely 8.4 pounds comes out through your lungs and the remaining 1.6 pounds turns into water. In other words, nearly all the weight we lose is exhaled.
So that must be why I am always told that I am full of hot air!
THE NEW ERA OF CANNABIS IN THE WORK- PLACE Now that marijuana is legal in Canada for recreational purposes, the big question for employers is whether more employees will smoke weed on their way to work or could coffee break now become cannabis breaks. The federal government’s legalization of recreational mar- ijuana raises occupational health and safety concerns for many employers. What if an employee takes a puff before or during work hours, how will this impact workplace pro- ductivity and the health and safety for them and others in the workplace? What is shocking is that cannabis has been legalized, yet there is little to no high-quality research on the impacts of marijuana in the workplace to go by before setting guide- lines for the workplace.
research to be able to better understand the effects of marijuana on work being performed so that employers can develop an accurate measure of impairment for use of cannabis in Canadian workplaces.
There is an urgent need for high-quality observational
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