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  1. Newsgroups: sci.med
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!pacbell.com!UB.com!pippen.ub.com!kendall
  3. From: kendall@sceng.ub.com (Greg Kendall)
  4. Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
  5. Message-ID: <kendall.105@sceng.ub.com>
  6. Sender: news@pippen.ub.com (The Daily News)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: kendall.ub.com
  8. Organization: Ungermann Bass
  9. References: <1992Dec03.222011.3803@omen.UUCP> <17724@pitt.UUCP> <dnsurber.724007610@node_26400> <17875@pitt.UUCP>
  10. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:48:18 GMT
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  13. In article <17875@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
  14.  
  15. ... stuff deleted ...
  16.  
  17. >Well, if you build a large calorimeter, put the person into it,
  18. >measure the heat generated, the weight changes, and the food taken
  19. >into the calorimeter, what other complex input conditions are there?
  20. >Seems reasonably simple to me.
  21.  
  22. Your model seems to rest on the assumption that we all get the same
  23. amount of energy out of our food.  Is there evidence to support this
  24. assumption?
  25.