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[HydrogenBond]

Another angle on obesity is the efficiency of the digestive system. For example, if one eats 2000 calories, but the body only takes 1500 before the waste is expelled, that person would gain less weight than someone who has a more effeicient digestive system so it can get the whole 2000 calories. Obese people may have very efficient digestive systems.

This may be a new weight loss angle. Somehow lower the efficiency of the digestive system so one can gain less caloric value from eating.

Along those lines, there are certain foods that the body tends to retain longer because of their concentrated food value. The slow digestion of such food objects, may cause other foods, eaten at the same time, to be more fully processed than normal.

The rate of absroption is also dependant on how fine the food is chewed or preprocessed. If one gulps down large chunks this could have two affects. If a perseon is on a digestive time cycle, they will get less food value. If their body is very efficient, this will slow the whole works, maybe even giving enough time to digest some otherwise indigestable things.

This is a crappy subject, but even constipation and laxitives will have an impact on the amount of time allowed for digestive processing. If one at a laxitive after every meal they would gain low food value from food.

If anyone wants to research the angle, they are welcome to it.