Bookworm on Aug 14 2008 at 8:01 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
If we all ate like this, we’d be extraordinarily fat, not to mention, perhaps, dead. On him it works (and looks good too).
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*burp* I think I gained a pound or two just READING that . . .
On a (somewhat) more serious note, I just finished the book by The Waiter (waiterrant.net). One of the more sad themes that keeps cropping up in his blog and his book are the botoxed, overdieted, overexercised women that are the fashionable norm in NYC. I’ve a friend in NYC who has become seriously anorexic since moving there and I think it’s so sad. Why would any young person, male or female, want to live in a city where starving and throwing up are the expected diet regime?
That is sad, Lissa, and it’s also ironic that in one of the greatest “food” cities of the world, there should be voluntary starvation.
Why would any young person, male or female, want to live in a city where starving and throwing up are the expected diet regime?
They’re trying to make themselves look non-threatening to criminals and serial killers.
Best of luck with that. I prefer a different regimen.
Btw, the better way people can eat so many calories is when they space it out during the whole day. They are always eating something, thus they are always digesting something, and thus their body is always in a sort of high gear metabolic cycle given that exercise-eat tendency.
Most people eat 3 or 2 meals a day, and thus they tend to eat way too much for their stomach to handle at any one time or they eat less than their body needs and then they come up hungry later, which requires snacks and what not.
He’s 6ft 4in and 192lb of pure joy. From a female perspective, obviously. Though I probably shouldn’t say that.”
That was funny, Book, wasn’t it.
Calories aside, Bean is concerned by the makeup of the swimmer’s diet. “It does look quite salty, quite fatty, not very high in good fibre or in fruit and veg – he’s certainly not getting his five a day,” she warns. “I would certainly have expected him to be eating a bit less fat – and it’s all saturated fat, the wrong kind. I suppose the point with an athlete like Phelps, though, is that he needs a very high calorie intake but a very low volume, whereas with the rest of us it’s the precise reverse: we need a low calorie intake and high volume.”
No athlete wants to spend too much time with the stomach eating up energy digesting a lot of stuff. Fats are a rich source of energy. It’s not very efficient to spend a long time digesting, when you also need to exercise. If you are consuming grains, then that’s carbs and carbs are burned off the fastest and they are also the first ones the body burns off. Then the body goes for fats, and if not fats are found, protein.
If the swimmer is trying to maintain his weight, that means his body is burning his own fats off because he doesn’t have enough sent in by his stomach.
I’m not sure how much carbohydrates a human body can maintain, but endurance wise I tend to think it is going to get burned up fast while swimming. But unlike normal people, he doesn’t just stop when all that is burned up and used up. He does even more exercise. And that means the body is now starting to use up reserves, which means he better have a large amount of reserves or risk burning out.
The human cardiovascular system was designed to be used. With human built machines, the more you use them, the more they will break down. Not so with the human cardiovascular system. It is true for human joints like knees and what not, if they suffer stress and trauma continuously without being able to rest up. But it isn’t true for the human heart.
Most humans in history were limited by one thing. Food. Their immune systems depended upon it. Plagues came and killed not because people had no antibodies, but because everybody was starving and thus far more susceptible to catching, spreading, and dying from diseases.
Now a days, we are not limited by food. We are limited by our jobs and daily activities, which no longer require physical toil as much as it did in muscle powered days. You know, where to do anything, you had to use muscle power?
Not only funny, Y, but true. Part of the pleasure of watching Phelps swim is the beautiful “animal” quality he has. It’s like watching my dog play fetch. What she does is exhausting. You and I would hate endlessly cycling after a ball. For her, though, it’s the incredible joy of using her finely tuned little animal body to race across the ground and leap into space. She goes beyond thought into pure physical being. That’s what I feel watching Phelps — and from a woman’s point of view, the fact that this joyful activity is being channeled through an exquisitely tuned male body is . . . well, nice.
Phelps’ joy is really part of it. I used to enjoy gymnastics, but I don’t any more. Their bodies and psyches are so abused that it’s simply stressful to watch. Not so Phelps.
Did you ever watch the Dog Whisperer when it came to comprehending dog behavior better?
We watched the Dog Whisperer religiously for a season, Y, and then got bored. Our current dog is such a naturally submissive little thing that she’s easy-peasy all the time.