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air conditioning may be making us fat
Earl Evleth writes:
They cool more. The US is a country you can freeze to death during the summer. That is true of most places where extremely hot and/or humid climates are the rule. You need powerful air conditioning in hot climates. The temperatures indoors really aren't that low, but they are much lower than outside temperatures. The cool air provides some very valuable rest to the human body, which is fatigued by constant struggle with extremely hot conditions (sweating is very tiring). One reason some people are uncomfortable in air-conditioned environments is that often the A/C isn't powerful enough. It cools the air, but doesn't condense out any of the humidity, producing an extremely clammy, sticky coolness that is palpably unpleasant (especially since most of the humdity often comes from evaporated sweat). -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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air conditioning may be making evleth fat
The dumb one is he who answers evleths topics and give him a chance to show
off. The dumb one is michael newport who spams all day long. "The Singing Nun" a écrit dans le message de news: ... Jacqueline wrote: Posting no-topic articles certainly makes people fat too...so Earl Evleth must be a very fat pig now! And no.....I'm not fat at all just dumb () |
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air conditioning may be making evleth fat
Go back there and stay there !!!
The poor people. "Earl Evleth" a écrit dans le message de news: ... On 28/06/06 20:33, in article , "Mxsmanic" wrote: Instead, one stays indoors and sedentary in order to stay cool. I don't remember seeing overweight people in Ghana. No air conditioning. |
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air conditioning may be making us fat
zacnici writes:
Air conditioning is a bit self deafeating in the long term. It's hot so you turn on the AC, this uses energy which pumps out greenhouse gases (which is not ackowledged by George W), also the heat exchangers then exhaust out which increases the ambient temperarture. Bothing heating and cooling do this. Switch off the AC and employ punka wallahs, that way you reduce emissions and unemplyment, simple. Switching off the A/C in hot climates would turn them back into ghost towns. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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air conditioning may be making us fat
Earl Evleth writes:
I don't remember seeing overweight people in Ghana. No air conditioning. There are other differences between Ghana and the rest of the world. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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air conditioning may be making us fat
"Mxsmanic" wrote in message ... Earl Evleth writes: Another factor potentially weighing Americans down is air conditioning. The body burns calories when forced to regulate its own temperature and, Allison noted, people tend to eat less in hot, humid weather. A more likely explanation is that climates that require air conditioning are so hot that one cannot really get any exercise. Instead, one stays indoors and sedentary in order to stay cool. But you claim that your Paris airconditioning is essential. So why do you also have hiking boots unless you are a total poseur. JohnT |
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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message ... Earl Evleth writes: I don't remember seeing overweight people in Ghana. No air conditioning. There are other differences between Ghana and the rest of the world. What specific differences have you observed when comparing Ghana with the rest of the World? JohnT |
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JohnT wrote:
"Mxsmanic" wrote in message ... Earl Evleth writes: I don't remember seeing overweight people in Ghana. No air conditioning. There are other differences between Ghana and the rest of the world. What specific differences have you observed when comparing Ghana with the rest of the World? The rest of the world isn't Ghana? -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org |
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air conditioning may be making us fat
You need powerful air conditioning in hot climates.
You don't. You can just get used to it; it only took me a few days to get used to temperatures in the high 30s the first time I encountered them (in Australia) and to temperatures in the mid-40s when I met with them (in Kurdistan). It might be relevant to this discussion that Asperger's syndrome is often associated with malfunctions of the autonomic nervous system that lead to excessive sweating and poor temperature control. (A friend of mine suffers pretty badly from this; his Asperger's is less socially disabling than yours but absolutely obvious just the same). It may well be the case that you can't handle a Paris summer without an air conditioner, but we don't all share your neurological disabilities. You might find that beta-blockers help. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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