From: Todd Moody on February 1, 2001:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Norm Skrzypinski wrote:
>
> > My brother and I are the same height, 6'1", but my inseam is 32 and his
is
> > 30. He says that, since our fellow primates are very noticeably
> > short-legged, he's either a throw-back or maybe just a back. He's taken
to
> > singing "We Are Devo".
>
> And even if you both had exactly the same percentage of body fat,
> he would weigh more than you. This is why I think weight tables
> have to allow for this.
Yes. I have small bones and weigh 160 lb. He has large bones and weighs
215.
> Now, is your brother more Inuit-like than you, metabolically
> speaking?
Aside from the obvious differences in size and proportion, that's hard to
know. I eat a raw paleo diet; he eats SAD. He's not particularly attracted
to large slabs of meat; he has a strong preference for Italian and Mexican
dishes, especially those with a lot of cheese. He rarely eats dessert or
sweets. Taking supplements, especially vitamin C, make him feel worse, so
he avoids them. I drink spring water; he drinks Guinness, Dalwhinnie and
gallons of coffee. Despite all that, he appears to have boundless energy,
is a senior executive in a thriving computer consulting company and plays a
very active role in a volunteer-run adult literacy program.
Norm
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