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From: malcolm@alf.UUCP (Malcolm Colton)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Fat Swimmers
Summary: Not just swimmers get fat
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Date: 14 Oct 88 20:15:03 GMT
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In article <604@intvax.UUCP> Alan Morimoto writes:
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>I'm not sure that anything I am about to write has been proven by a
>scientific study, but I do know that it has been observed by some scientists
>that swimmers are prone to developing more fat because of the temperature of
>the water they swim in.  In other words, because the water temperature is
>usually much lower than body temperature, the body has a tendency to want to
>protect itself from the cold by forming a layer of fat on the exterior of
>the body.

I seem to recall an article in New Scientist about 15 years ago, which
described studies on the thigh fat of Londoners who wore miniskirts
and travelled by bus. They also found an increase in the fat layer,
presumably as a consequence of the exposure to cold.

Don't you wish you could get a research grant for something like this!
"Excuse me miss, I just need to measure the diameter of your upper thigh."

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