home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Path: sparky!uunet!omen!caf
- From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
- Subject: Re: Weight loss and ambiant temperature
- Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:56:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.005636.2595@omen.UUCP>
- References: <1dsgm3INNqm2@fido.asd.sgi.com> <1992Nov12.071026.429@news.wesleyan.edu>
- Lines: 22
-
- In article <1992Nov12.071026.429@news.wesleyan.edu> RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg) writes:
- >In <1dsgm3INNqm2@fido.asd.sgi.com> schreiber@schreiber.asd.sgi.com writes:
- >
- >>
- >> When does the body lose the greater amount of energy:
- >> -when the ambiant temperature is too hot therefore causing sweating?
- >> -when the ambiant temperature is too cold?
- >
- >I believe the U.S. Army once did a study & found that Army personnel stationed
- >in Alaska during the winter consumed 1.5x as many calories of food rations as
- >did Army personnel stationed in tropical climates during warm weather.
-
- I've also read that caloric consumption goes up considerably.
-
- Unfortunately, this does not necessarily translate into an effective weight
- loss mechanism as Pearson & Shaw recommend in their weight loss book,
- as discussed in Adiposity 101.
- --
- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf
- Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
- Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software"
- 17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD Portland OR 97231 503-621-3406
-