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> The most common misconception by far, was that fat is converted to energy. The problem with this theory is that it violates the law of conservation of matter, which all chemical reactions obey.

I mean what they're getting at must be true, we are obviously not converting 1kg of rest mass into energy but that sentence is very much not true.

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