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Sounds dubious, source?

• Mountain_Skies 7y ago
  Can you specify what you find dubious? Anyway, here's the source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15615615 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15615615 It states the maximum conversion is (290+/-25) kJ/kgd. It's been a while since I last worked on this subject but I believe that works out to somewhere in the range of 0.8% to 1% of body fat that can be converted into energy per day at most. Of course there were some experimental controls in the study that don't always map exactly into the real world. There always are but this should be close enough for the discussion here.
  • gilbetron 7y ago
    Thanks for the source! Jumping from that study (which is tightly focused) into the statistic of "0.8% body fat per day limit" is dubious, and "close enough" doesn't work with nonlinear systems like the our bodies. Read many of the threads around discussing that article for more information :)