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Assuming you meant inefficient. It is exceedingly difficult for people to make lifestyle change. Some shockingly small percentage of people lose 40 lbs and keep
by bitexploder 9y ago
Assuming you meant inefficient. It is exceedingly difficult for people to make lifestyle change. Some shockingly small percentage of people lose 40 lbs and keep it off.
I have an anecdotal idea that, basically, folks who are fit enough to exercise off 1000-1500 calories every week and do so are the ones that never have to lose the weight in many cases. Finally, although inefficient in the thermodynamic sense, I think part of why this is true is because most people gain weight over a course of years. That extra soda or beer every day. When you have a simple balancing lever like an extra mile or two of vigorous walking or something else it can all balance. When you are sedentary in the same situation, you slowly get diabetes.
Also peanut butter is dense, but a good way to illustrate the problem to someone a good way is to also ask someone if they are willing to walk for 30 minutes for one soda.
- rebuilder 9y agoMoving the mass of a human body over a mile on one tablespoon of fuel is highly efficient! Edit: tablespoon, not tea-
- cma 9y agoTrains do about 30 times better on a tablespoon of diesel, and that's only including the weight of the freight and not the train itself.
- meesterdude 9y agoi feel like a train isn't going to get anywhere on a tablespoon. That's enough for a few engine strokes perhaps, but that's hardly 30 times better than a mile by a human, no?
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- awodol 9y agoI'm not sure on the numbers but I know a human couldn't get freight moving even with a whole jar of peanut butter.
- meesterdude 9y ago> I know a human couldn't get freight moving even with a whole jar of peanut butter. This is probably one of the best serious sentences I've ever read.
- to3m 9y agoMy car will probably go (at its best) about 300m on a tablespoon of fuel. About a fifth of a mile. But it weighs about 20 times as much as I do, so I think that's pretty good going. With a rolling start and flat ground it will pass this test at 30mph, and probably higher too. That's quite a lot faster than I can run, too...
- cma 9y agoBased it on the weight-miles per gallon (assuming something like a 200lb human).
- rebuilder 9y agoI knew I was asking for trouble, generalizing peanut butter into fuel...
- syntheticnature 9y agoInefficient for weight loss, efficient in a fuel per work done sense.