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Eh, maybe comparable to standing at an office desk?

• Kirby64 3y ago
  Probably closer, but I still doubt it. Factory work was notoriously brutal. Figures for calories burnt from sitting vs. standing varies between 20 and 80 cal/hour. 80cal/hr would be substanial over a workday (800cal, assuming factory work was 10 hour days in the 50s...), but 20 would not... If we assume it's ~50cal/hr, standing alone could add up to 500cal difference for a 10 hour day, not even including additional physical exercise from the job itself. Add to this the amount of walking that was likely substanially more common in the 50s, and it sure seems like you could chalk up a 1000+ cal difference pretty quickly.
• Kirby64 3y ago
  I just read the actual study quoted just to get an idea of what they're claiming, and this further seems to indicate that 'light' labor was anything but... > 4. The average daily calorie intake of men doing light work was about 600 Cal./day less than that of men doing heavy work. The previous failure to differentiate between intakes was thus not confirmed. The estimated calorie expenditure per minute, excluding what was require for basal metabolism, was on an average 2-2 Cal. for light work, 2-7 for light to medium work, 2.6 for medium to medium heavy work and 3-8 for heavy work. 2.2cal/min would equate to 1320cal additional burned for a 10 hour day! That's clearly far, far above typical calories used in an office job.
  • Retric 3y ago
    A 150 lb person uses 100 calories per hour at their desk, but people get up quite often to go to meetings etc. It could easily be 1150 vs 1320 calories here a meaningful difference, until you consider differences in body weight = higher calorie expenditure.