You win!!! Best line of the week.
Posted on 09/13/2019 8:34:54 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
IT SEEMS ABSURD. How could two humans -- seated for hours, exerting themselves in no greater manner than intermittently extending their arms a foot at a time -- face physical demands?
Still, the evidence overwhelms.
The 1984 World Chess Championship was called off after five months and 48 games because defending champion Anatoly Karpov had lost 22 pounds. "He looked like death," grandmaster and commentator Maurice Ashley recalls.
In 2004, winner Rustam Kasimdzhanov walked away from the six-game world championship having lost 17 pounds. In October 2018, Polar, a U.S.-based company that tracks heart rates, monitored chess players during a tournament and found that 21-year-old Russian grandmaster Mikhail Antipov had burned 560 calories in two hours of sitting and playing chess -- or roughly what Roger Federer would burn in an hour of singles tennis.
Robert Sapolsky, who studies stress in primates at Stanford University, says a chess player can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament, three times what an average person consumes in a day. Based on breathing rates (which triple during competition), blood pressure (which elevates) and muscle contractions before, during and after major tournaments, Sapolsky suggests that grandmasters' stress responses to chess are on par with what elite athletes experience.
Well, the brain is the biggest calorie and energy burner of all our organs — WHEN USED INTENSIVELY.
So, sitting on the couch vegitatin’ isn’t quite the same?
Rage of the Brain.
Don’t eat.
Yes.
Interesting. I’m a very anxious person. I wonder how overweight I’d be if I weren’t? And anyway, I thought too many stress hormones make you fat? (That’s my story and I’m sticking to it).
Old info...not braggin’ but I heard about caloric requirements of intense thought 30 years ago. Leave it to ESPN to try to act smart when they are a bunch of sycophantic clowns.
My problem is having too many intimate dinners for two, with just me showing up.
cut out your carbs man it is really easy,, eggs and sausage or bacon in the am and meat and veggies for lunch and supper,, I went from 239lbs to 200 in 5 months and now all my glucose and blood pressure numbers are back to normal,, which were elevated before.. my doctor is amazed
LOL,,
You win!!! Best line of the week.
The Senior Citizen variation: Small 200 calorie early breakfast (1/2 serving whole wheat cereal, 6oz almond milk, 5 oz OJ)
11AM Buffet. Don't eat again until 6AM next morning.
I go to a good buffet one a week, following this routine. I am conscientious about eating veggies, fruit, good proteins. It's a great way to eat a balanced diet and it does seem to help stabilize weight.
THX
KEY words....”WHEN USED”
That’s what they call Intermittent Fasting these days. I do it also, M-F eat at 11 am and 6 pm, nothing else.
Weekends? Well we can’t behave all the time, and I don’t trust those who say they do.
The one-buffet-a-week works very well for me, and it saves me money. Because I'm feeding myself, a lot of foods would go bad if I only used part of them. I've become disciplined enough to choose foods that have good nutritional value when I get the buffet.
Normal days? 1100-1250 calories, eating at about 6AM, 11AM, 4PM.
Blood pressure normal. Lost 20 lbs. Now have a normal body mass index and normal a1C.
OTOH, chess grandmasters who frequently used the Danish Gambit and wash it down with the Scotch Game don't have this problem.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.