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From: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Diet while you sleep elixirs
Message-ID: <1569@pur-phy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 00:18:10 EST
Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1569
Posted: Thu Dec 20 00:18:10 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 06:48:19 EST
References: <155@ttidcc.UUCP> <2428@pur-ee.UUCP>
Reply-To: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., IN
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Summary: 

In article <2428@pur-ee.UUCP> cromwell@pur-ee.UUCP (Cromwell) writes:
>
>Just to look at this from an engineering standpoint, let's consider
>conservation of mass.  Assuming that these are not diuretics that
>cause you to make nlog(n) trips to the bathroom, where does all that
>weight go?  Maybe they make you sweat profusely......
>
>				Bob Cromwell

Most of the weight doesn't go anywhere.  Actually, you'll still be metabolizing
while-u-sleep, so you will lose some weight as expired water and carbon dioxide.
But don't count on losing much.  And don't count on not getting back what
you lose, unless you diet.  THE ONLY WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT IS TO USE MORE
ENERGY (EXERCISING) THAN YOU TAKE IN BY EATING!!!!! OR ELSE, DIET!!!
As I said before, this stuff is liquid B.S. (and I don't mean any sort of
academic degree), with artificial color and flavor.  

As Bob Cromwell points out, you can also lose water through diuresis (as well
as through the usual sort of micturition one performs in the morning after
one gets out of bed), but you'll get all of that water back with the first
drink of the stuff you take to quench your thirst in the morning!
Maybe future postings about this LBS should be posted in net.jokes!  :-)