• Question: When people lose weight, where does it go?

    Asked by millerbei to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean, Viv on 16 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Laura Waters

      Laura Waters answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      They burn up the energy that has been stored. Your body is good at storing extra energy in case you need it one day to survive, it is just that some people store a bit too much!

    • Photo: Lena Ciric

      Lena Ciric answered on 17 Mar 2012:

      We store energy in our fat, so when you eat less and exercise more, you use up the fat which is converted to energy.

    • Photo: Sean Murphy

      Sean Murphy answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      The fat is metabolized to energy. This is why exercise is so important.

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