Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrlnk!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!rlvd!wjh 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) Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot. UK. Lines: 40 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." > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Malcolm Colton Sybase, Inc., Emeryville, CA >{pyramid, pacbel, sun, mtxinu, capmkt}!sybase!malcolm >___________________________________________________________________________ >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Malcolm Colton Sybase, Inc., Emeryville, CA >{pyramid, pacbel, sun, mtxinu, capmkt}!sybase!malcolm >___________________________________________________________________________ Or is it that girls with skinny legs and knobbly knees don't ware miniskirts :-) -- Bill Hewitt, UUCP: ..!mcvax!ukc!rlinf!wjh Science & Engineering Research Council, JANET: wjh@uk.ac.rl.inf Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX. U.K. Tel: (0235) 44 6713 If no one seems to understand start your own revolution cut out the middle man !