Everyone knows hot air rises. So, do we gain or lose weight when we burp or fart?

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• RegularJoe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  boards.straightdope.com/t/…/527684

  thenakedscientists.com/…/does-internal-gas-affect…

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  • bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Burping and farting tiny, but if we’re talking gasses and changing weight, the vast majority of the mass you lose from fat when you lose weight actually comes out in your breath.

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  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Damn, bro came with receipts! But think about it, OP… if you expel even a tiny bt of something, you will have lost it.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This fella farts the facts! 👍

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    • forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Did you ask this just to setup your reply??

      Either way, brilliant.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  First one to record themselves farting so hard the scale changes, wins!

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• yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For weight loss purposes, you actually lose the weight by breathing. O2 in C02 out. You’re constantly shedding carbon. Does breath count as warm gaseous emissions?

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Does the warm carbon dioxide and other warm gaseous compounds sink or float?

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    • Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I guess warm breath rises, you can see it in winter when your breath is visible.

      However, co2 is not present as a gas in your body, but bound to hemoglobin, so I think it only becomes a gas again in your lungs. Same as farts only forming “outside” your body in your intestines.

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Methane is lighter than air

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