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On 17-4-2009 12:49, Invisible wrote:
> scott wrote:
>>> "You need to burn 3,500 caleries to loose 500g of body fat."
>>>
>>> Um... really? I would have thought that the amount of energy you need
>>> to burn would be related to the amount of energy you consume in the
>>> first place... no?
>>
>> I don't think so, burning 3500 calories is burning 3500 calories,
>> which apparently will make you lose 500g of fat. Whether you then
>> immediately consume 3500 calories and put it back on is another matter
>> :-)
>
> LOL! WTF?
>
> That's pretty special, right there. And you're telling me you engineer
> stuff for a living? ;-)
>
> That's almost as broken as the logic in Braniac's weight experiment.
> They got a girl, weighed her, and then made her eat a quarter pounder.
> Afterwards, she was less than a quarter of a pound heavier. This is
> because of "the energy used by eating the burger". And not because, say,
> 1/4 lb is THE UNCOOKED WEIGHT OF THE BURGER or anything like that... :-P
That refers to a very classical experiment where someone measure his
weight while sitting on a platform for some time and became lighter all
the time. That was the first time they got a clue that perhaps we are
breathing out CO2 and that takes some weight. I can not find a reference
unfortunately.
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