h a l f b a k e r yAssume a hemispherical cow.
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, random
news, help, about, links, report a problem
browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
register,
|
|
|
Please log in.
Before you can vote, you need to register.
Please log in or create an account.
|
Clothes keep the wearer warm, reducing the rate at which
heat energy can exit the body. Anyone wishing to lose
weight could remove all of their clothing to promote the
transfer of heat to their environment. This technique
would work best in climates cold enough to induce
shivering.
The Church of No-Pants
The_20Church_20of_20No-Pants Redundant with this idea, I think. [hippo, Feb 11 2009]
[link]
|
|
1. Cold increases appetite |
|
|
2. Basal metabolic rate is defined in thermally neutral conditions; cold raises the metabolic rate, but not the BMR. |
|
|
//Cold increases appetite// What sort of "appetite"? |
|
|
How about chilled overalls? You'd probably have to carry a battery back pack around, so that would keep you fit when there wasn't a wall socket handy. |
|
|
I think you can get air-conditioned bike jackets, I thought of them years ago but I think I found them on Gizmag or somewhere. |
|
|
Actually, doesn't being too hot help you lose weight? Perhaps a competing Many Clothes Diet will spring up. |
|
|
I think being seen in public, naked would put me, and no doubt other people, off their food. + |
|
|
All the wrong people would would be clothesless. - |
|
|
Why is there //no clothes diet//? What did you do with the clothes diet? |
|
|
If a person were cold all the time would the body not try harder to retain a layer of blubber? |
|
|
(mumbles something about naked lunch...) |
|
|
My guess is this would make for a lot of starving/malnourished naked people. Since malnutrition leads to lowered body temperature, they'd be liable to die from hypothermia, which I guess is one way of solving the obesity problem. |
|
| |