Re: butter

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Posted by Marc on December 13, 1997 at 17:09:30:

In Reply to: butter posted by shane frederick on September 16, 1997 at 14:47:42:

: Can you gain more than a pound of weight by eating some sufficiently caloric substance, like butter?

: I argued that it was theoretically plausible.

: Here is my analogy:

: Take a chunk of magnesium. Set it on a scale. Allow it to burn. The scale will begin to register greater weight as the magnesium burns.

: If people "burn" or "oxidize" butter or something analogous, perhaps the pound of butter be converted into more than a pound of animal tissue.

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