http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x82287Oh my.
n2doc (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-04-10 04:14 PM
Original message
Altitude Causes Weight Loss Without Exercise
after which a photograph of a mountain range
Just a week at high altitudes can cause sustained weight loss, suggesting that a mountain retreat could be a viable strategy for slimming down.
Overweight, sedentary people who spent a week at an elevation of 8,700 feet lost weight while eating as much as they wanted and doing no exercise. A month after they came back down, they had kept two-thirds of those pounds off. The results appear in the Feb. 4 Obesity.
“What is nice about this paper, is that it clearly demonstrates that there’s a lasting effect of decreased caloric intake, that people eat less even a month after they come out of high altitude,†said Massachusetts General Hospital anesthesiologist Kay Leissner, who studies high altitude physiology, but was not involved in the study.
Since a 1957 study, scientists have known that animals lose weight at high altitudes. Mountaineers also shed pounds during expeditions to 12,000 feet or more, though the exertion of climbing a mountain clearly played a role.
Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/high-altitude...
Hmmm. Maybe the gigantic primitive should move to Nepal.
HuckleB (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-04-10 09:13 PM
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8. I don't like to give the big "Duh" to research, but this one is a big "Duh."
Chemisse (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-05-10 05:24 AM
Response to Reply #8
9. Duh? You already knew this?
“What is nice about this paper, is that it clearly demonstrates that there’s a lasting effect of decreased caloric intake, that people eat less even a month after they come out of high altitude,â€
I thought the study was interesting. It makes me curious about the physiological changes at high altitudes and how it can last.
HuckleB (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-05-10 09:24 AM
Response to Reply #9
10. That's a claim that this paper really shouldn't make.
Try thinking critically for once. A month isn't very long, and anyone who has trained at altitude knows that the benefits last that long. So, yes, it's a big duh.
Chemisse (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-06-10 05:16 AM
Response to Reply #10
11. "Try thinking critically for once."
Why do you have to be obnoxious?
Sanity Claws (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-06-10 09:33 AM
Response to Reply #11
12. That is obnoxious
This must be the rudest forum in all of DU.
HuckleB (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-06-10 10:26 AM
Response to Reply #15
16. Again, what's obnoxious are knee-jerk responses from posters who don't actually want to discuss anything with intellectual honesty. But somehow that doesn't bother you at all.
BTW, check out some forums if you want to see actual obnoxious behavior. Your extreme depiction of this forum is obnoxious, by comparison.
HuckleB (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-06-10 10:06 AM
Response to Reply #11
13. Try thinking critically for once.
Saying that I'm obnoxious by asking you to refrain from knee-jerk BS doesn't change the fact that you should try it.
What's truly obnoxious is your inability to post anything but thoughtless, knee-jerk responses.
You know, I'm getting enthusiastic about this idea of having the gigantic primitive move to Nepal so as to lose weight, because of course we all wish the gigantic primitive to succeed.
franksolich is willing to donate twenty bucks for the cause.
On the other hand, franksolich is possibly allergic to high altitudes (not the same thing as "high places," by the way--geographic altitude), which is why franksolich wouldn't touch Colorado (where he's been many times) with a ten-foot primitive.
High altitudes make franksolich's head congested.
The closer franksolich is to sea-level, the better he feels.
One wonders if this being allergic to high altitudes could get one on social security disability.
