Where Does the Fat Go? (And Other Concerns)

Food, We Need To Talk

Juna Gjata

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

If you've ever wondered where fat goes when you lose weight, what exactly a calorie is, and what on earth physics has to do with all of it, this is the episode for you!

Today, we talk to Ruben Meerman, AKA “the surfing scientist”, about the physiology and the physics of our bodies. What do atoms have to do with calories? What does carbon dioxide have to do with your waistline?! Find out today.

Remember to head to our website for our show notes!

Find Juna on Instagram @theofficialjuna.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Okay, Eddie, so we focus a lot on behaviors, right?
0:05.0	Yeah, I mean, it's kind of the whole premise of the show.
0:08.0	Right, so making better food choices, exercising the way that makes you feel good,
0:13.0	sleeping better, so on and so forth.
0:16.0	Well, today we're taking a bit of a different tactic.
0:20.0	We are going to be talking a little bit more about science.
0:23.0	What do you mean? We always talk about science.
0:26.0	This is, after all, the science-based humor-laced approach to health and fitness.
0:31.0	It's our tagline.
0:32.0	Well, here's the thing.
0:33.0	We use scientific terms a lot in the health and fitness spaces,
0:37.0	but I think a lot of the time we don't really know what they mean.
0:41.0	So today we're going to slow down and define some of what we're talking about.
0:44.0	Ooh, are we going to do some math and physics?
0:47.0	I just need to find my high school Texas Instruments calculator.
0:50.0	You know, I probably still haven't somewhere.
0:52.0	We're going to be doing just a little bit.
0:54.0	Maybe you can leave the calculator out of it this time, but you know, next time maybe we'll use it.
0:59.0	Today we are answering the most basic of questions.
1:03.0	Like, what is a calorie?
1:05.0	What happens to fat on our body when we lose weight?
1:08.0	And why do we even need to know this stuff or do we not need to know
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Juna Gjata, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Juna Gjata and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.