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It isn't physically possible to lose 25 pounds of lean muscle mass in a few weeks. That's off by an order of magnitude, check the energy and mass balance calculation.

But frequent exercise is certainly a "miracle drug" in that it effectively prevents or treats a host of different medical and psychological conditions.




It's possible I'm misremembering something. I can't find the story I remember seeing. I did trip across this:

https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20140529/fast-weight-loss-ma...

But I really don't intend to post further. This is a completely pointless argument in my book and the world really doesn't need such at the moment.




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