Wanna be skinny? Shoogle!
I should read Collision Detection more often. A 29 January post, linking to the New York Times, finds a possible relation between a natural predisposition to fidgeting and staying thin:
The difference translates into about 350 calories a day, enough to produce a weight loss of 30 to 40 pounds in one year without trips to the gym - if only heavy people could act more restless, like thin ones.
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“People with obesity are tremendously efficient,” Dr. Levine said. “Any opportunity not to waste energy, they take. If you think about it that way, it all makes sense. As soon as they have an opportunity to sit down and not waste those calories, they do.”
Neil complains that I ’shoogle’ so much - I constantly fidget and move about, even when I’m sitting at the computer. My legs vibrate up and down when I sit for an extended period of time, annoying people in movie theatres. Superstitious Chinese tell me I’m shaking my luck away.
Looks like I’m shaking excess pounds away, too. Not that I have any excess pounds to begin with, but I do sometimes eat like a 250-pound rugby player who’s just completed a fast.
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Wonderful, just give people gene therapy so that they contract brain disorders and they will lose weight.
I really do not like the second part of the quote you posted. I think the fact that people are overweight determines how quickly they want to sit down, not that they are lazy and want to sit down to conserve calories so they can gain weight.
Terry, I don’t think they say that people who have problems with obesity do it consciously. They mean that some people are predisposed to being more active than others, and it shows itself in weight loss/gain.
I’m pretty sure I don’t have a brain disorder, I just find it hard to sit completely still.
Lets see if Maria has an opinion… ;o)
I’m a confirmed fat bastard, and I agree that any opportunity to sit is a good opportunity, and it means less chance of spilling my beer!
Hmmm, I used to fidgit a lot, but now I just snack on carrots-n-nuts to distract me. A bit counter productive, but hey, at least it isnt chips!
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