“The correct answer is that 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.”
Where does the fat go?
Jason_v
#3
this is the stupides tand most misleading thing I have ever read. the fat is metabolized as energy. fat contains no water or carbon dioxide. the energy in the bonds is converted to ATP, and the left over carbon and hydrogen molecules are what makes the Co2 and h2o
LeCheffre
(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman )
#5
Somewhere, there’s a beatharian who is all “I told you so, morons.”
J_A-M
(Jay AM)
#6
Is that what they say with their…wait for it…last breath?
Though, it’s no laughing matter. People have died being breatharians.
Sunder
#8
this story was run a week ago in Australian papers. It infuriated me because it sounded like a trick question set up to embarrass doctors. Imagine I asked my wife “What happens to all those broccoli stems you cut off” and she replied “They go in the bin”, and then I published an article that said:
“98% of housewives don’t know that food waste ends up in landfill” just like the article in Australia said:
“98% of the health professionals in our survey could not explain how weight loss works.”
BS The doctors were dumbing it down for journalists, if they started talking about lipolysis and ATP, the journo would never understand, and they know it. Ask them in an exam with a very clear expectation of what kind of answer you wanted, and the survey would come out very differently.
Journalism in Australia is trash, and falling in other places around the world too. (obviously with syndication. Check the dates and the near identicalness in the CNN and News article - CNN bought it off news corp 9 days after it first ran, probably because it generated a lot of clicks)
Drs may not know everything, and once they graduate, are even less likely to be on the cutting edge of medical science. But don’t be fooled into believing they’re all idiots or in the pockets of big pharma either. If there is an article bashing doctors or any other profession as a whole, there’s a 5% chance it;s a serious expose, and a 95% chance it’s click bait.
keehan
(A ham loving ham! - VA6KD)
#9
It’s kind of funny that it took this long to get to the mainstream media. This research was done (by an Aussie - Ruben Meerman https://rubenmeerman.com/ ) more than four years ago and was presented at a TED talk waaaay back then.
Sunder
#10
Pretty cool video.
Tracing back the origins of the article, it seems to be written by Ruben for “The Conversation” on March 14th this year, but it was first written about in 2014 for the British Medical Journal. He seems to have been working on this for a while. It’s this year’s article that has the first mention of asking doctors instead of asking people on Bondi beach.
I used to really enjoy watching TedX videos. Should see what’s been out in the last couple years since I stopped watching them.
Robert_Johnson
(Consensus is Politics)
#11
When I was a kid in the 70’s I loved to stay up late to watch Johnny. I remember seeing a guy on there claiming to be a breatherian. He swore he didn’t eat any food, since he started. I think he was trying to convince Johnny he had been so for several years. I wasn’t buying it, and I was delighted to see neither was Johnny, but he remained polite and got the wacko off his show pretty quickly. It must have been a slow week for the producers. Or maybe it was during one of the infamous strikes I. Hollywood. Didn’t they have a producers strike once? Lmao.
Saphire
#12
They are not idiots which is why I find all the bad advice that is and was slowly killing my T2 friends and relatives so offensive.
I forget if it was Einstein who said the definition of idiocy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Giving the same bad advice and expecting their patients to get better.
As for whether a 50 year old physician who was in their biochem class at 22 can still explain the krebs cycle, not unless he recently had to help his high school kid review it for a test
jennyellen
#13
It isnt new.
For many years when I worked in ICU, our severe emphysema patients were all fed a very low carbohydrate diet to minimise the effect of diet on the work of breathing.
Carbon is excreted as carbon dioxide and water vapour through the lungs, and those patients with very impaired gas exchange mechanisms found a high carb load to worsen their respiratory symptoms.
Sadly, it never seemed to change much for these patients as they were all pretty well end stage by the time I saw them 
Robert_Johnson
(Consensus is Politics)
#14
I suppose it depends on the definition of idiot. When I worked for Cox Communications in Phoenix, tech support, I’d talk customers through their gamut of remotes everyday.
Doctors and lawyers were always the worst. Starting with the VERY beginning of the call…
“Hello this is Bob, how can I help you?”
Customer: “you can begin by addressing me properly… and that would be Doctor Jones, to you”
So when I starts out like that, I can’t help myself.
“Uh… yessir, Doctor Jones to you. How can I help?”
Customer: really has his feathers ruffled now, continues stumbling with what to say, “well, huh, my tv has a blue screen! There’s no picture. I’m paying”… ya da da… Took me 20 to 30 minutes sometimes with them to just listen to me, be my eyes over the phone, and do what I ask to help them get their TV back on the correct video input. It was always like a bad rendition of “Who’s on First?” Abbot and Costello schtick. “No sir, what brand TV do you have? RCA? Then please get the RCA remote for the TV. Oh the stereo came on, then maybe that not the right one. Is that a universal remote? Oh? It is the one for the stereo. Can you get the one for the TV? Sony? I thought it was an RCA. No, not the stereo, the TV. Yes sir, the TV remote so we can put its video input to the same input the cable box is connected to. Well sir, I’ll figure it out by having you hit certain buttons on the remote, we’ll get it done pretty quickly. Which buttons?? You found the remote? No? When you have the remote, I’ll tell you which buttons to press. No sir. I don’t know what your remote looks like. No sir, I don’t think I can come find it for you. Doctor Jones, what brand is your TV again? Mitsubishi??? Wha… ok. Do you have that remote then? Hit the power button. What do you mean it set off the car alarm???
Compare that to this 90 some odd year old sweet lady. Her late husband left her with a dilemma. Umpteen different gizmos all hooked up to the tv. The tv has a blue screen with a number 2 in the corner. She just wants to watch the news. Please help.
“What brand is your TV? Sony? Ok, how many Sony remotes do you have? Just one? Good. I want you to point it at the tv and hit ‘03’ for me…”
“BOOP BEEP” very loud in the headset.
Two more boop beeps. She comes back and say, “still nothing happening! I’m so frustrated at this damn thing!” And I can tell she is in tears as she vents her frustration of the situation. Which made me feel really bad because I was laughing so hard I had to mute the phone. “Ok ma’am, is your phone also a Sony cordless phone?” And she says, “yes, how did you know that… (slight giggle noise heard)… never mind thank you! It’s working now.”
I would calls like both of those numerous times a day (hitting around 100 calls a day). And the sweet old lady calls made it worth it everytime. Doctors, lawyers, celebs. Cher… yep Cherokee woman herself. Wow. She was nice enough. But that’s all I’m gonna say.