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Complete oxidation of fats must yield a net gain of water? This is perhaps the reason that hibernating animals, bears, etc, do not die of dehydration?
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This processes uses water rather than producing water.  Every bond that is broken by hydrolysis uses one molecule of water:  an H+ to fill up one "space" and an OH- to fill up the other "space".
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