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Do we know how efficient our bodies are converting food into

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Do we know how efficient our bodies are converting food into energy or that excess energy into stored fat?

Any time one form of energy is converted to another there is a loss of some kind, like generating electricity from an IC petrol engine, only ~30% of the energy gets converted.

Are the joules from food the amount of joules our body see's? or is it the amount of energy that is stored in that food?
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our body uses enzymes - shit that puts chemists to shame.
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In some of the cycling forums, I have read food calories to work calories is 15-25 percent efficiency. I am in mobile....Check Google.
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>>7962773
all i can seem to find on google is calorie calculators and shit about losing weight... Dont suppose anybody knows of any real papers or journals or anything on the subject?
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>>7962752
lmgtfy.com/?q=efficiency+of+cellular+respiration
Literally the first result.
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>>7962849
thanks
didn't know what i was searching for
>"calorie energy change" "food to energy" all that kinda shit returned mom science on me
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So supposedly 40% of the calories in glucose actually go into the usable calories in ATP, the other 60% is wasted as heat
Does that mean if i ate 100 kcal of glucose, my body would only really see 40kcal?
Where does the storage of said energy come into play?
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Or are calories, when linked with food, already taking that into account and 100kcal is what my body would see AFTER the 60% is lost?
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>>7962752
If I cut out 1kg of fat from my stomach and eat it, how much fat will I loose/gain in the process?
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>>7963040
Depends on how much fat your intestine can absorb at once, wether or not you have a healthy gallbladder and a proper bilirrubin synthesis, and on your nutritional state.
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>>7962784
Try using a proper search engine like PubMed if you're interested on human metabolism for instance, or universities
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>>7962985
> wasted as heat
As opposed to freezing to death?
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