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- Path: sparky!uunet!inmet!mazur
- From: mazur@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur)
- Subject: Re: Swimming (was: One whole week)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.195936.9291@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
- Organization: Intermetrics Inc, Cambridge MA
- References: <Nov.13.11.27.01.1992.3515@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <1992Nov13.182345.14404@inmet.camb.inmet.com> <Nov.17.11.42.02.1992.9354@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:59:36 GMT
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- In article <Nov.17.11.42.02.1992.9354@gandalf.rutgers.edu> shagan@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Susan R. Hagan) writes:
- >I read that book. Thats where I read that swimming doesn't burn fat.
- >Has he changed his mind on that? The book I read was a 1978 edition.
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- No, it looks like the consensus is that swimming is a good way to
- become fitter (in a cardiovascular sense), but not necessarily the
- best way to lose fat. There are theories why that is (cold water,
- increased appetite, etc.), but nobody really knows the real story.
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- Beth Mazur "...life is more than a vision. The sweetest
- mazur@inmet.inmet.com part is acting after making a decision."
- ...!uunet!inmet!mazur -- The Indigo Girls
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