The Benefits of Being Cold
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The Benefits of Being Cold
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#2I'm not sure I would do any of this, but it's certainly an interesting writeup. I particularly enjoyed the part about watching Michael Phelps, and realizing he was burning extra calories because he was spending time in cool water every day.
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#3I'm not sure I would do any of this, but it's certainly an interesting writeup. I particularly enjoyed the part about watching Michael Phelps, and realizing he was burning extra calories because he was spending time in cool water every day.
I recall reading an article, though, where Michael Phelps admitted he didn't eat as much as was reported. The story about the gargantuan amounts he ate was something the media loved, and something that helped build a "mythology" around him, but even Phelps said it wasn't true.
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#4Weird. This is something that I always sort of believed because it's much easier for me to lose weight in the winter than it is in the summer. However, I figured that what was really happening is that I was more inclined to move and exercise when it was cold out. I hate hot weather like poison.
But still, it's truthy.
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#5>Seven million years of human evolution were dominated by two challenges: food scarcity and cold.
Almost all of that time was spent in Africa. Even during glacial periods, was it ever icy? I don't know much about the paleoclimate, so I'm not sure.
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#6>Seven million years of human evolution were dominated by two challenges: food scarcity and cold. Almost all of that time was spent in Africa. Even during glacial periods, was it ever icy? I don't know much about the paleoclimate, so I'm not sure.
It would be very cold at night... in the deserts
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#7>Seven million years of human evolution were dominated by two challenges: food scarcity and cold. Almost all of that time was spent in Africa. Even during glacial periods, was it ever icy? I don't know much about the paleoclimate, so I'm not sure.
A great deal of Africa can get cold.
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#8Systems are complex... working out in the cold burns more calories, but your body tries to eat more food to compensate.
(see http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/exercise-to-lose-we... )
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#9But the Static Electric Shock in winter is terrible...
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#10I'm not sure I would do any of this, but it's certainly an interesting writeup. I particularly enjoyed the part about watching Michael Phelps, and realizing he was burning extra calories because he was spending time in cool water every day.
I recall reading an article, though, where Michael Phelps admitted he didn't eat as much as was reported. The story about the gargantuan amounts he ate was something the media loved, and something that helped build a "mythology" around him, but even Phelps said it wasn't true.
12,000 is on the high end of extreme athlete caloric intake, but not totally outlandish. There are many stories about Iditarod mushers throwing whole sticks of butter into their food for the fat, and a study of one musher showed average consumption of about 9,000 calories per day through the race [1] (with weight loss indicating a deficit of ~2k/day). A quick google says Tour de France racers consume in the range of 6-9k calories per day.