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- From: mazur@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur)
- Subject: Re: Swimming (was: One whole week)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.200834.9683@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
- Organization: Intermetrics Inc, Cambridge MA
- References: <1992Nov13.182345.14404@inmet.camb.inmet.com> <Nov.17.11.42.02.1992.9354@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <98010@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:08:34 GMT
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- In article <98010@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >Doesn't one's heart and lungs work just as hard when swimming as when
- >walking, jogging, or whatever? And isn't that what burns up the calories
- >and thus the fat?
-
- Yep. However, studies have shown that statistically, people do not lose
- body fat when they use swimming as their method of exercise (and the
- suspected reason is that swimmers eat to make up for the calories
- burned to keep a fat layer under the skin for warmth). Clearly
- individuals, being individuals, can lose weight swimming. But many more
- do not. If it's the only exercise you can get, then by all means swim!
- But you might stand a better chance if you walk instead.
-
- Beth Mazur "...life is more than a vision. The sweetest
- mazur@inmet.inmet.com part is acting after making a decision."
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