Suppose you eat 6 oz of the richest, most decadent chocolate mousse in the world. Can you gain more than 6 oz of weight as a result? Why or why not?
The law of conservation of mass would say that it is impossible to gain any more mass than what you eat, at least in a closed system. It doesn't matter how much your body processes food, it cannot generate more mass (weight) from that food than what is in that food. However, theoretically it might be possible to gain 2 pounds from that 6 oz of mousse if somehow it changed the way the rest of your food was processed, say if it caused your body to metabolize other food differently.
But I'm betting it doesn't work that way. Still, I don't know what really happens.
(Yes I am trying to justify something I did, and actually it was closer to 8 or 10 oz.)
2007-01-24
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