Today, I had some home made desert made of fruits and condensed and evaporated milk. I believe that the amount of fat in these milks is really high. But the amount of the milk we added to it was little (2 teaspoons I think).

I started thinking - if I eat something thats 20 grams, how can it result in me gaining more that 20 grams of weight. Then this is how I figured it probably is like: a 100kb file in 1 file system when moved to a different file system may take up 110kb in the 2nd file system - because of the file system's structure and layout I am guessing. Similarly, the 20 grams of food is processed and converted to our body's file system, which may result in us putting more weight.

Thinking about it some more, I figured the above would be a violation of conservation of mass; this is what probably happens when we eat high fat things like the condensed milk, and later drink water or other fluids, the body starts retaining it to match the fat level. Thus we put on weight. The key to our weight would then be the amount of water in our body (which - the water retention - would depend on the other things we eat).

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