Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!kenm
From: kenm@maccs.McMaster.CA (...Jose)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Fat Swimmers
Keywords: "but, Why?"
Message-ID: <1504@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 17 Oct 88 17:17:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.1504
References: <78300004@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <421@geovision.UUCP>
Reply-To: kenm@maccs.UUCP (...Jose)
Organization: McMaster University -- Hamilton, Ontario
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>In article <78300004@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>[...]
>I seem to remember reading a table that said world-class marathoners
>average 8.5% body fat, and swimmers average 12+% bodyfat.  Does
>someone know the REAL (i.e. researched/verified/published) answer to
>this question?
>

	Several articles have commented on why it may be helpful to 
a swimmer to have extra body fat, but any ideas on HOW they develop this?
	Do they peruposely put on the weight, or is it  
possibly a response to the prolonged exposure to cold?  I would imagine
it to be intenttionally gained... any one know better?

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