From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 10:32:42 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
> main beast of labor, the adult men. An adult male farmer can burn from
> 4000-8000 calories a day doing the most strength demanding work (fence
> building, digging, hoeing, and haying), even going over 10,000 calories
> in cold weather (a lb of human fat equals approximately 12,000 calories,
> I believe).
About 3500, actually. So your hypothetical farmer is burning 3 pounds of
fat a day? For reference, the recommended caloric intake is something
like 2000(1) calories a day, and actual average intake is somewhat higher.
(1) http://www.absolutefitness.com/user/calories.asp
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> Crypto key: randall.freedomspace.net/crypto.text For every new mouth to feed, there are two hands to produce. -- Peter T. Bauer, 1915-2002
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