| 2981/
NASA commissioned a study to find out whether astronauts would
be better off rowing or cycling in space. They found that
rowing consistently burned 15 to 20 percent more calories
than cycling.
2982/ Research has shown
that the more TV you watch, the fatter you are likely to be.
One study of more than 6,000 men found that those who viewed
the tube more than 3 hours a day were twice as likely to be
fat as those who viewed less than 1 hour.
2983/ The typical American
man manages to find time to watch 3.5 hours of television
a day.
2984/ Men. Do you have
a beer gut? Let science tell you! One method is to measure
your waist to hip ratio. Take a tape measure to your waist
and then to your hips. Divide your waist measurement by your
hip measurement. If the number you get is 0.85 or greater,
your belly's too big. (Alternatively just crack open another
brew. Look in the mirror and repeat - "You the man!".
It won't help your waist, but it might make you feel better!)
2985/ Fatter people make
less money. A study of business school graduates found that
men who were 20 percent or more overweight made $4000 less
a year then thinner alumni.
2986/ A Cornell University
study found that married men were twice as likely to be obese
as those who were single or divorced.
2987/ One study found
that when men started an aerobic exercise program, they started
having sex about 30 percent more often than they had before.
(So buy him a treadmill ladies!)
2988/ Burn a gram of
protein or carbohydrate, and you'll get about 4 calories of
heat. Burn a gram of fat, and you'll get more than 9.
2989/ If you are an average-size
guy (5 foot 9 and 172 pounds) who watches the average amount
of television (3.5 hours) and does the average amount of exercise
(not much) a day, you probably shouldn't be taking in more
than 2,900 calories a day to maintain that average size.
2990/ If you were that
average guy and ate just one more carrot a day it would give
you an extra 31 calories a day. Multiply that carrot's calories
by 365 days, and you would be taking in 11,315 extra calories
a year, which, if your body stored them all as fat, it would
make you more than 3 pounds heavier a year from now.
2991/ Eat a cheese pizza.
It will take over 1 and a half hours of solid running, or
9 hours watching tv to burn it off.
2992/ When they renovated
Yankee Stadium in the 1970s, seating capacity shrunk by 8,000
seats, says S Boyd Eaton, MD, associate professor of radiology
and adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Emory University
in Atlanta. Why? Because the original seats, installed when
the stadium was built in 1922, were 19 inches wide. The new
seats had to be 3 inches wider to accommodate Americans' bigger
butts.
2993/ Cornell researchers
analyzed studies of more than 350,000 men that linked weight
and death. They found that those who had the lowest risk of
death were those who had a body mass index of between 24 and
27. Which would put your healthy weight, if you were 6 foot
2, somewhere between 195 and 215 pounds.
2994/ Researchers at
the Stannford University Sleep Disorders and Research Center
found that fat truck drivers are more likely to suffer breathing
problems when they sleep and so are more likely to zone out
at the wheel and run you over. As a matter of fact, the researchers
showed that fat truck drivers have more than twice as many
accidents per mile as thin ones.
2995/ Richard Versalle,
was a tenor with the New York Metropolitan Opera. On January
5th, 1996, Versalle, 63, was singing the role of Vitek in
the opera The Makropulos Case. In the opening scene Varsalle
had to climb a ten foot ladder. As he stood atop the ladder,
he sang, "Too bad you can only live so long", then
suddenly stopped and toppled backwards onto the stage. He
was pronounced dead shortly after his arrival at St Luke's
Roosevelt Hospital.
2996/ In one study 57
formerly obese people were asked whether they would rather
be fat again or deaf. 100 percent of them said they would
rather be deaf. And 90 percent of them said that they would
rather lose a leg or be legally blind than fat again.
2997/ In one study of
83 seriously obese women who had gastric bypass surgery, the
women reported that they had become more interested in sex,
had sex more often, and enjoyed it more than they had before
the operation.
2998/ By some estimates,
roughly the same percentage of American dogs (somewhere between
25 and 45 percent) as American masters (33 percent) are overweight.
2999/ Approximately 22
percent of Americans, the truly hard-core, eat at convenience
stores and fast-food restaurants an average of five or more
times a week.
3000/ Men who consume
a moderate (note that word - moderate) amount of alcohol on
a regular basis are less liekly to suffer heart attacks and
ischemic strokes (that is strokes caused by the blockage of
a blood vessel) than men who don't drink. The reduction in
risk varied in the studies in the range of 25 to 40 percent.
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