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- From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Message-ID: <32827@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:57:43 GMT
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- In article <17875@pitt.UUCP| geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
- |In article <dnsurber.724007610@node_26400| dnsurber@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (Douglas N. Surber) writes:
- |
- |I made no such assumption. What I said was that no matter how few
- |calories you need for maintaining your weight, if you eat more
- |than that you will gain weight and therefore are overeating.
- |
- || My understanding is that most human metabolism varies over a
- ||significant range, and it seems reasonable that the metabolism of food
- |
- Your understanding doesn't explain the problem.
-
- |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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- I heard on "All Things Considered" that a recent study found (by
- a urine analysis, How they do that I don't know) that dieters
- underestimate the calories they consume--an overestimate the
- amount of exercise.
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- So it looks like Gordon is right. Food in, energy stored in fat
- or burned. The problem isn't physics. It's psychological.
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- Bruce Watson (wats@scicom) Bulletin 629-49 Item 6700 Extract 75,131
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