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Defined "Metabolism"

Maplestrip: /* Explanation */ Definitely not my life experience, and I'm wary of this kind of claim as it touches on the agency of obesity. I think more details here would be very helpful, though I know how inconsistent dietary research can be.

2024-05-17T12:17:31Z

‎Explanation: Definitely not my life experience, and I'm wary of this kind of claim as it touches on the agency of obesity. I think more details here would be very helpful, though I know how inconsistent dietary research can be.

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 ==Explanation==
-Eating is fundamentally a process where energy from food gets absorbed into the body in order to drive every cellular process in the body.  Energy that is absorbed but not needed in the short term gets converted and stored as body fat. This is called {{w|metabolism}}. Consuming too much food and not exercising enough are major factors for {{w|obesity}}, which is a problem in many first world countries today, {{w|Obesity in the United States|especially in the United States}}.
+{{w|Metabolism}} is the set of chemical reactions which sustain life. This chemical reactions require energy to work, which is obtained from food by eating. Energy that is absorbed but not needed in the short term gets converted and stored as body fat. Consuming too much food and not exercising enough are major factors for {{w|obesity}}, which is a problem in many first world countries today, {{w|Obesity in the United States|especially in the United States}}.
 For obese people, losing weight is often an enormously difficult task.  Standing in stark contrast, there are also lean people who do not seem to ever gain any weight even though they appear to eat whatever and however much they want.  This leads some people (including the lean people themselves) to believe that one can have a special {{w|metabolism}} where excess food energy somehow does not affect the body.  This belief is common, though not supported by scientific evidence.{{actual citation needed}}  The comic makes fun of that kind of notion.  While [[Cueball]] describes to [[White Hat]] how his metabolism is "special" (the phrase "one of those" implicitly meaning unusual), he is in fact only describing the normal case: no matter what he eats, his body converts the food to energy and stores any excess food as fat which stays in his body for future use.

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 Eating is fundamentally a process where energy from food gets absorbed into the body in order to drive every cellular process in the body.  Energy that is absorbed but not needed in the short term gets converted and stored as body fat. This is called {{w|metabolism}}. Consuming too much food and not exercising enough are major factors for {{w|obesity}}, which is a problem in many first world countries today, {{w|Obesity in the United States|especially in the United States}}.
-For obese people, losing weight is often an enormously difficult task.  Standing in stark contrast, there are also lean people who do not seem to ever gain any weight even though they appear to eat whatever and however much they want.  This leads some people (including the lean people themselves) to believe that one can have a special {{w|metabolism}} where excess food energy somehow does not affect the body.  This belief is common, though not supported by scientific evidence.  The comic makes fun of that kind of notion.  While [[Cueball]] describes to [[White Hat]] how his metabolism is "special" (the phrase "one of those" implicitly meaning unusual), he is in fact only describing the normal case: no matter what he eats, his body converts the food to energy and stores any excess food as fat which stays in his body for future use.
+For obese people, losing weight is often an enormously difficult task.  Standing in stark contrast, there are also lean people who do not seem to ever gain any weight even though they appear to eat whatever and however much they want.  This leads some people (including the lean people themselves) to believe that one can have a special {{w|metabolism}} where excess food energy somehow does not affect the body.  This belief is common, though not supported by scientific evidence.{{actual citation needed}}  The comic makes fun of that kind of notion.  While [[Cueball]] describes to [[White Hat]] how his metabolism is "special" (the phrase "one of those" implicitly meaning unusual), he is in fact only describing the normal case: no matter what he eats, his body converts the food to energy and stores any excess food as fat which stays in his body for future use.
 The title text stretches this further, telling about the normal habit of drinking water (and the consequences of not drinking it) as something odd.  Starting to feel bad at first and eventually dying if refraining from drinking for too long a time are perfectly normal consequences of dehydration. This was also touched upon in [[1708: Dehydration]], in which Megan spent all day researching whether low-grade dehydration is really a thing -- ironically forgetting to eat or drink at all, to predictable results.