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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by partialrecall on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:28PM (#20964925)
Surely energy going into and out of the body, which is the point of the "meme", is mutually exclusive with the body being a closed system.
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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by omginternets on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:34PM (#20964998)
Yes, that's very much my point!

By extension, it excludes reasoning about weight loss in terms of conservation of mass/energy.

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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by partialrecall on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:38PM (#20965033)
I think you're missing the point of the "meme". The point of the meme is that human bodies are not closed systems, and that the way to regulate the state of the system is to regulate what goes into and out of the system (if bodies were closed systems, there wouldn't be inputs or outputs to regulate.)
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