For example, if you weighed yourself at 7am, then over the course of a day you ate 1 kilo of cheese and drank 1 kilo of water, could you have gained more than 2 kilos?
2006-11-12 04:59:03 · 9 answers · asked by Mark R 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
No. It's not the mass of what you eat, but the calories of what you eat that will determine the amount of weight you gain.
Example: After drinking 1 kg of water, you will gain 0 kg of weight because water has 0 calories and you will pass it all during the day.
2006-11-12 05:09:58 · answer #1 · answered by jonnyheroes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - you would always put on less mass during the day than the mass of what you eat and drink. Some of the carbon in the food you eat must be exhaled as carbon dioxide, so you actually breathe out some of what you eat! And some of the water you drink will also be exhaled as water vapour.
2006-11-12 13:16:45 · answer #2 · answered by Martin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it's not possible.
The weight you weigh has to come from somewhere, so if you haven't put more than 2 kilos inside you, it's not possible to weigh more than 2 kilos more.
2006-11-12 15:03:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the main reason being that you are constantly burning the energy which comes from your food using oxygen which you inhale. Assuming you hadn't gone to the toilet, you would still loose mass as CO2 (which is heavier than the oxygen, the C comes from the food) and loose heat through radiation and convection (sweating)...among others.
hope this helps.
2006-11-13 09:30:41 · answer #4 · answered by alxx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While there are foods that contain more calories per unit weight that others, i.e., have higher energy density (http://www.myfooddiary.com/resources/ask_the_expert/energy_density_foods.asp ), fat has the highest energy density (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_energy ), the fat that you gain is less weight than most of the foods you eat.
That said, if you eat exclusively fatty foods, you'll gain weight faster than if you eat celery.
2006-11-12 15:03:19 · answer #5 · answered by arbiter007 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...conservation of mass comes in here,
your body mass = what goes in - what comes out
You can't create more mass than you put in. If you put on wieght over a period of time it is because your body has retained some of the mass and converted it to fat, muscle or other tissues, fluids etc.
2006-11-12 16:23:18 · answer #6 · answered by spoon_bender001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Impossible.
You would be violating the law of conservation of energy.
In which case Einstein and many other scientists would be wrong.
To say the above is unlikely is the understatment of the century.
2006-11-12 14:13:24 · answer #7 · answered by Tzctlpc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You also breathe in oxygen (O2) and exhale carbon dioxide (CO2) which should reduce your weight, unless you also take in foreign bodies (bullets?). Burning fool (carbohydrates) produces metabolic water (H2O) which is exhaled or sweated away.
2006-11-12 13:28:12 · answer #8 · answered by Kes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd be worried about water retention if this is what has happened, your body only stores a percentage of fat so the answer is no.
take care
2006-11-12 13:02:15 · answer #9 · answered by Lizzie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋