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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Caloric Expenditure
Message-ID: <1755@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 13:18:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 15 13:18:49 1986
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In article <2166@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP writes:

>	A kiss of average duration consumes approximately 9 Calories (no, it
>didn't specify what average duration is).  At a conversion factor of 3500
>Calories to the pound, that works out as a ratio of 380 kisses to the pound.

Seems like eating 380 Hersey's kisses would probably add more than a pound.
:-)

>	And for those who really wanted to know, the average act of sexual
>intercourse (lasting 9 minutes, your mileage may vary) consumes about 40 
>Calories, or approximately the same as climbing two flights of stairs. 

I'm sure the rest of the net is curious as to how they measured this,
and how large their sample size was.

Snoopy
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