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But the question is this, Did the pigs sing? > From: john.r.strohm@BI*.co* > Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 20:45:09 -0500 (EST) > Subject: Re: Cardiovascular fitness, HFSness, and DCS risk > To: will@tr*.co* > Cc: aranz@ib*.ne*, cavers@ww*.ge*.co*, techdiver@aquanaut.com, wwm@sa*.ne* > Smithers said: > >And while > >those factors may be mass/volume per tissue-half-time related, > >they clearly do *not* have a correlation to vascularity, > >except for the noted fact that people in better cardio-vascular > >shape are less likely to be fat-asses, and hence have per-tissue-volume > >halftime ratios that more likely reflect the average. > > > >Granted, this is splitting hairs...a fat fuck is still a fat fuck, > >and obviously more likely to get bent... > > The only problem with this statement is that it is directly contradicted by > the hog experiment previously cited. > > The two groups of hogs DID NOT DIFFER in fat-assedness, or in distribution > of fat-assedness. BOTH groups had slim, svelte hogs and HFS hogs, and DCS > incidence within the groups was UNCORRELATED with fat-assedness. > > If the HFS hogs in each group had gotten more DCS than the slim, svelte > hogs in each group, your claim that being a fat-ass was a predisposition > for DCS would have been supported. Sorry. The real world disagrees with > you. > > The significant point of the experiment was that the treadmill conditioning > was NOT enough to affect the HFS quotient of the hogs in question. They > were still HFS hogs, just in better cardiovascular conditioning. > > The next experiment, taking a third group of hogs and training them up to > Arnold Schwarzenporker condition, then seeing what that does to DCS > susceptibility, has yet to be performed. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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