what’s the difference between the food that get pooped out and the food that get stored as fat due to exceeding your body demands ? Does the body have 2 different ways of dealing with excess food intake ?
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People don’t have the capability to digest some parts of food. Fiber is an example. This is what gets pooped out.
However, the body digests all the food it is capable of digesting. It takes the energy and puts it into storage until it is needed.
As a relevant comparison to 2020, picture a hospital purchasing boxes of masks. They order 100 boxes a month, but only use 90. When the boxes get delivered, they discard the shipping box and packing materials since they can’t make use of them, but they will eventually be able to use the extra 10, so they put the extra boxes into storage for emergencies.
Anything that leaves as faecal matter wasn’t absorbed in the first place. It just went from one end of a tube to the other.
Energy storage is for materials which have been absorbed from your gut, passes into your blood stream, and then not used. Once there, it stays, or gets used. It can’t go back into your faecal matter.
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