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From: wjh@inf.rl.ac.uk (Bill Hewitt)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Fat Swimmers
Message-ID: <4439@rlvd.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 88 09:58:20 GMT
References: <78300004@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <604@intvax.UUCP> <1510@sybase.sybase.com>
Reply-To: wjh@inf.rl.ac.uk (Bill Hewitt)
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In article <1510@sybase.sybase.com> malcolm@alf.UUCP (Malcolm Colton) writes:
>In article <604@intvax.UUCP> Alan Morimoto writes:
>>
>>I'm not sure that anything I am about to write has been proven by a
>>scientific study, but I do know that it has been observed by some scientists
>>that swimmers are prone to developing more fat because of the temperature of
>>the water they swim in.  In other words, because the water temperature is
>>usually much lower than body temperature, the body has a tendency to want to
>>protect itself from the cold by forming a layer of fat on the exterior of
>>the body.
>
>I seem to recall an article in New Scientist about 15 years ago, which
>described studies on the thigh fat of Londoners who wore miniskirts
>and travelled by bus. They also found an increase in the fat layer,
>presumably as a consequence of the exposure to cold.
>
>Don't you wish you could get a research grant for something like this!
>"Excuse me miss, I just need to measure the diameter of your upper thigh."
>
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>Malcolm Colton				       Sybase, Inc., Emeryville, CA
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>Malcolm Colton				       Sybase, Inc., Emeryville, CA
>{pyramid, pacbel, sun, mtxinu, capmkt}!sybase!malcolm
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Or is it that girls with skinny legs and knobbly knees don't ware miniskirts
:-)

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