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Does the metabolism of ingested lipids and fats yield a net gain of water to the human body?

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Does the metabolism of ingested lipids and fats yield a net gain of water to the human body?

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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