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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Message-ID: <17936@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 17:37:06 GMT
- Article-I.D.: pitt.17936
- References: <dnsurber.724007610@node_26400> <17875@pitt.UUCP> <kendall.105@sceng.ub.com>
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- Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
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- In article <kendall.105@sceng.ub.com> kendall@sceng.ub.com (Greg Kendall) writes:
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- >>Well, if you build a large calorimeter, put the person into it,
- >>measure the heat generated, the weight changes, and the food taken
- >>into the calorimeter, what other complex input conditions are there?
- >>Seems reasonably simple to me.
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- >Your model seems to rest on the assumption that we all get the same
- >amount of energy out of our food. Is there evidence to support this
- >assumption?
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- Yes. The feces are also analyzed for any energy not extracted.
- This has already been done and thin people have been shown to
- extract the same as obese.
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