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Re: not fair! Posted on: Sat, 1 May 2004 19:03:55 +0000 (UTC)

> My husband is a good deal taller than I am, and as I said before, it
> isn't the same as carrying a 45 lb backpack. It is what he is. It may
> burn more calories, but considering that neither of us are obese, it
> isn't more effort (that he feels--I'm not speaking technically) for him
> to walk to the bus stop than it is for me, just because he is taller and
> therefore weighs more.


If what other postes explained didn't sink in your head, I don't how
else to help you. Have you had high school physics? You may not feel
the same carrying a 45 lb bag. But that the only way you'll do the
same amount of work as he does going the same distance. Obesity is
not in this equation.