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Chaima Chihi

Where does body fat go when we lose weight? The answer is stranger than you expect

When body weight falls, some of the fat stored by the body disappears – but where does that mass actually go?

Two researchers from the University of Birmingham explain in an article published in The Conversation that fat loss is linked to a process that begins when the body needs more energy than it gets from food, so it turns to its fat reserves to meet that need.

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