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LiveScience.com just published a study that says that the more time you spend on intellectual pursuits, the more likely you are to be overweight. That explains so much, but how does it explain this?
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Wow, have they produced a study showing that water is wet yet, I totally wouldn't have thought that intellectual pursuits would be less physically active.
Oh howsabout they study if people who pursue physical pursuits are more likely to be in shape?
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[ParticleMan]
If you go in the water, do you get wet? Or does it get you instead?[/ParticleMan]
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Wow, have they produced a study showing that water is wet yet, I totally wouldn't have thought that intellectual pursuits would be less physically active.
Oh howsabout they study if people who pursue physical pursuits are more likely to be in shape?
;)
The part I thought was interesting though is that if you put a coach potato up against a brainiac, the brainiac still ends up gaining more weight.
The part I thought was interesting though is that if you put a coach potato up against a brainiac, the brainiac still ends up gaining more weight.While they say that, many (most?) programmers I know are a bit on the ultra-thin side of things -- and don't work out.
Do they eat? And mountain dew plus cheetoes is not food.
I may not be a programmer, but my mind is almost always thinking, and I enjoy (mostly) healthy food. And yet, despite my lack of exercise (which I should remedy), I'm not more than 185 lbs.
The reason: Genetics. I'm naturally thin, it took the constant exercising of Navy boot camp for me to reach a "healthy" weight of @145 lbs. Some people just don't pack on the fat, regardless of what they eat, something that this study didn't factor in.
And here I'am on a diet when all I have to do its stop thinking...
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Wow, have they produced a study showing that water is wet yet, I totally wouldn't have thought that intellectual pursuits would be less physically active.
Oh howsabout they study if people who pursue physical pursuits are more likely to be in shape?
;)
[ParticleMan]
If you go in the water, do you get wet? Or does it get you instead?
[/ParticleMan]
When Chuck Norris falls into a lake, he doesn't get wet- the lake gets Chuck Norris.
/rant/
If I read that study right, they had a group of 14 people for it. In scientific terms, that's a ridiculously small sample size for any experiment or clinical trial. I'd be ashamed if I conducted that study just for that reason alone. And no details like what people were fed or whatnot. It's really a poor study and if this is true I'm surprised anyone published it as written.
OK, found it. Can't access the main article but I've got the abstract. Crucial details missing:
1) Fourteen FEMALE volunteers.
2) Ages around 22-23 on average.
3) No way to determine if people sitting were not thinking vs. reading/writing and test-taking groups.
4) No mention of the time-points used.
5) They used kJ, or kilojoules, not calories, as energy. Not that important, but deceptive.
6) An observation that there was no difference in tastes noted. Ya only had 14 people. Too small a sample size to notice that.
7) No way to tell if the people in the reading group all like to snack while they read or if the test-takers had even eaten.
In conclusion, based on the abstract, this study would be at best phase-0 in clinical trials and I'd probably want some more work done before I bought it. Heck, the lead researcher only had that one article in that journal.
/end rant/
Thinking isn't what makes you fat, according to the study. Eating while you think makes you fat. Next time, just think while using the elliptical machine and you'll be set.
Thinking isn't what makes you fat, according to the study. Eating while you think makes you fat.
Damn it!! Does that me no snacks at the DnD table? Ah, forget it, wieght will never overrule DnD!
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Thinking isn't what makes you fat, according to the study. Eating while you think makes you fat.Damn it!! Does that me no snacks at the DnD table? Ah, forget it, wieght will never overrule DnD!
Try this on for size. It might be just what you need.
I am enlightened! Thank you!!!