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I mean technically, if it's a tube, the mouth is part of the basic physics brain process. As in, if you don't eat it, it won't be added to the calories. The decision to eat is a brain process, too.
We've got drugs that play with that decision.
Unless you don't eat at all, the decision to eat is secondary to the decision to absorb energy from it.
For example, I've been eating a "healthy diet" with about the same amount of exercise, for the last 3 years: first it kept my weight steady, then I lost 70 pounds in 3 months, then gained 10.
The only difference: stress levels.
People have been congratulating me for ~~losing weight~~ getting stressed out of my mind to the point of almost going crazy and killing myself. Thanks, but I was better before.
I hope you are doing better now.
It's also easy easier to discriminate against far people if you can define it as a moral failure of just not putting food in your gob.
Unlike close people. Those are always bastards invading personal spaces.