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I have a really low BMI but also I definitely run cold. My wife and I regularly fight over the thermostat.
To be fully honest - I can relate to this. During my college years, I ate a full-size burger, potato fries, and soda every day for lunch for ~2 years. I never got fat and retained a healthy BMI, never crossing 200lbs despite being a 6'2" male - even though I almost never exercised and spent almost all day sitting working in the Math Lab. I did skip breakfast regularly so maybe that had something to do with it. My fam…
What did you eat for the rest of the day? Even if that meal was 2k calories, if you walked around campus a bit and ate moderate breakfasts and dinners then it’s not that crazy. It’s hard to get fat from one bad meal a day. What typically gets people is eating their daily needs via meals and then having high calorie snacks on top of that.
Then I noticed, that despite looking like a large meal, the calories weren't that high.
I have a really low BMI but also I definitely run cold. My wife and I regularly fight over the thermostat.
My family has Sami heritage, we run cold. My average body temp is 96.8 degrees. We also have trouble with hyperlipidemia, obesity, and early heart disease. So the genetics of all of this will be interesting. I have managed to avoid my family curse by eating pretty much only fish and game meat, like a Sami. And I do not eat much. It was the only diet that would raise my HDL.
If I were playing a game of trying to extrapolate HN titles by the comment sections, my guess for this one would be "Ask HN: What's your BMI and what does that say about you"
To be fully honest - I can relate to this. During my college years, I ate a full-size burger, potato fries, and soda every day for lunch for ~2 years. I never got fat and retained a healthy BMI, never crossing 200lbs despite being a 6'2" male - even though I almost never exercised and spent almost all day sitting working in the Math Lab. I did skip breakfast regularly so maybe that had something to do with it. My fam…
> all day sitting working in the Math Lab What I tell people is that my powerful brain needs a lot of calories.
Is this paper peer-reviewed?
Does it matter? Many scientists in the know say that peer review is as good as a trashy spam filter these days. This isn't to say that it is absolutely useless, more that it is very overrated.