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).

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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 ()

Go back there and stay there !!!
The poor people.

"Earl Evleth" a écrit dans le message de news:
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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.

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.

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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.

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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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

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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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

JohnT wrote:

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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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?

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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.

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On 28 Jun 2006 07:58:59 -0700, wrote:


The Singing Nun wrote:
Earl Evleth wrote:
Never thought of it but almost certainly hot weather
reduces one's appetite, probably a natural reaction
to reducing unneeded calorie intake. One "naturally"
consumes more fruit and salades, drinks more water
etc. Cold weather tends to drive people towards
heavier higher calorie food.


I work in an air conditioned office but neither I or my colleagues are
fat.
The only fatties I know arrive from the USA for meetings.
Does this mean that American AC contains more calories than European AC
?

Well, as Mixi will tell us, Americans use more AC than impoverished
Europeans, and correlation implies causation.

QED.

He wont bite at that, coz it's right.
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