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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: exercise?
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 12:16:53 EST
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> Is there an easy way to figure out how many calories are burned
> by a given amount of exercise, given that I can actually measure
> energy output?

	Is there an easy way. No.  The only completely accurate way is to
build yourself a calorimeter and measure the change in ambient temperature.
These are very expensive, and very tricky.  If you were the person who
specifically asked the dependence on caloric expenditure of different
manners fo stairclimbing, the answer is that the experiment has probably 
never been done, since two-level calorimeters are not practical.

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				Craig Werner
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