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From: hobbit@sunybcs.UUCP (Thomas Pellitieri)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: The bends
Message-ID: <733@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 17:14:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: sunybcs.733
Posted: Thu Oct 18 17:14:04 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:33:23 EDT
References: <590@ihlts.UUCP> <2585@ucbvax.ARPA>
Reply-To: hobbit@gort.UUCP (Thomas Pellitieri)
Organization: State University of New York @ Buffalo,NY
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Summary: 

In article <2585@ucbvax.ARPA> bart@ucbvax.UUCP (Bart Miller) writes:
>There might be some reasonable justfication for the statement that women
>are more succeptable to the bends then men.
>.....
>different tissue releases nitrogen at different rates.  Fat more slowly
>than muscle.  So, fat people are more likely to bend then skinny people.

Whoa!  Fat release nitrogen slower so fat people are more likely to bend??!?
I think that should be LESS likely!

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